Another seminary welcomes students in interfaith relationships. It’s time for the rest of liberal rabbinic schools to follow suit
Hebrew College is the latest rabbinical school to revoke its policy of banning students in interfaith relationships
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Opinion Want more Reform rabbis? Stop turning away Jews in interfaith relationships
The board of Hebrew Union College will soon vote on a proposal to stop enrolling rabbinic students at its Cincinnati campus, one of the Reform movement’s three North American rabbinical college locations. As revealed in publicly available papers and the proposal itself, enrollment across HUC’s three campuses is down 37% over the past 15 years….
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Fast Forward HUC-JIR Names First Four Panken Professorships
(JTA) — The first four Aaron D. Panken Professorships have been named. The professors, who serve on each of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s four campuses in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, will be funded by a $12 million endowment contributed by nearly 1,000 donors in memory of Panken. Panken, who served…
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Fast Forward Steven M. Cohen Resigns Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations
One of America’s leading Jewish sociologists has resigned from a Reform Jewish seminary amid sexual misconduct allegations. The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion announced Wednesday that professor Steven M. Cohen had resigned. The college had opened a Title IX investigation against Cohen after several women accused him of sexual misconduct. The allegations span decades…
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Breaking News Rabbi Aaron Panken, Reform Seminary President, Killed In Plane Crash
(JTA) — Rabbi Aaron Panken, the president of Hebrew Union College, was killed piloting a small aircraft in the Hudson Valley area of New York state. MidHudson News reported that Panken crashed the plane in a wooded area in the Town of Wawayanda, near the New Jersey border. A passenger, Frank Reiss, a flight instructor,…
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News How a Small Mississippi Town Helped Build Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism, America’s largest denominational stream, boasts some 900 congregations in America, including some with thousands of member families. So what possessed Rabbi David Ellenson, the renowned scholar and then-president of Reform Judaism’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, to travel to tiny Temple Beth El, in Lexington, Mississippi, — population 2,000 — for that…
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Opinion What a Swastika Means to Reform Jews in Today’s America
One morning in early January, the students and faculty of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion’s Cincinnati campus, the longtime seat of Reform Judaism in America, woke up to find themselves victims of anti-Semitism. A large, white swastika had been scrawled on the seminary’s red entrance sign. You couldn’t miss it. Though traumatic…
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Breaking News Cincinnati Mayor Condemns Swastika at Rabbinical School
(JTA) — The mayor of Cincinnati and the Anti-Defamation League denounced the spray-painting of a swastika on a sign at a Reform rabbinical school. On Tuesday morning, a white swastika was discovered on a sign on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. It was reported to the police shortly thereafter and later removed, according…
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