The Chronicle #72/2009

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Table of Contents

President's Message

Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, z"l
Eulogies: Rabbi David Ellenson, Rabbi David M. Posner, Rabbi Lewis Kamrass
Personal Reflections: Dr. Alfred Gottschalk

HUC-JIR Receives $3.7 Million Grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation to Advance Jewish Education

Changes in American Jewish Identities Since 1948: From Norms to Aesthetics
Dr. Steven M. Cohen
Responses: Rabbi Laura Geller, Dr. Bruce Phillips

Learning to Lead

The Schusterman Rabbinical Fellowship Program

The Task of the Tisch Rabbinical Fellows

The Mandel Fellows Program Mandate

School of Sacred Music Fellows Program

Social Responsibility: "What's Not OK Is Not Caring"

Outreach: Building Welcoming, Sacred Communities
Jean Bloch Rosensaft

Meet HUC-JIR's Students

HUC-JIR and All That Jazz
Lisa Shapanka Arbisser, SSM '09

A Rabbinical Student as Civilian Diplomat in Iran
Sarah Bassin, L '11

Facing Evil; Finding God
Rabbi Stephanie Bernstein, N '09

Finding A Jewish Path Along the Appalachian Trail
Rachael Bregman, N '10

Reform Pioneers for the Jewish Diaspora
Rabbi Danny Burkeman, L '09
Cantor Zoe Jacobs, SSM '09
Rabbi Gersh Lazarow, L '09


Becoming an "Offensive Lineman of the Jewish Sport of Identity Formation"
Bradley Cohen, RHSOE '09

The Artist as Rabbinical Student
Jean Englinton, C '10
Miriam Terlinchamp, L '10


Dancing Her Way to the Rabbinate
Rebecca Cottle Epstein, N '09

Experiencing Israel as Future Professional Leaders of the Jewish People
Jenna Fields, SCJS '10
David Harris, SJCS '09


Passover in the Former Soviet Union
Amy Goodman, N '13
Jordan Helfman, C '13


Reimagining Prayer
Jessy Gross, L '11

Arab and Israeli Coexistence... in the Most Unlikely of Places
Jennifer Gubitz, N '12

Poland Diary
Rabbi Jonathan Hanish, L '08

Getting the Call
Yaron Kapitulnik, N '10

Jewish Geography: HUC-JIR Edition
Jessica Karpay, C '11

Germany Up Close
Joshua Leighton, C '11

An Unpredictable Jewish Journey
Marion Lev Cohen, N '10

One Plus One Equals More
Ari Margolis, L '10

The Magic is in the Reflection
Lydia Bloom Medwin, RHSOE '09, L '10

"God is in This Place and I Did Not Know It
Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg, L '08

Adding a Link to the Family Legacy
Rachel Joseph, L '12
Aaron Miller, C '11
Joseph Skloot, N '10


The Egalitarian and Feminist Scholar
Rabbi Oshrat Morag, J '08

Justice They Shall Pursue
Jonathan Prosnit, N '11
Ari Plost, C '11
Joshua Stanton, N '13


Thransforming Generations X and Y and Discovering My Path to the Rabbinate
Nicole Roberts, C '12

A Second Career Calling
Rabbi Karen Sherman, L '09

The Yanov Torah and our Fragile Faith
Rabbi Joel Simonds, L '09

Alysa Stanton - The First African-American Worman Rabbi in Jewish History

A Berlin Rabbinical Student at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem

Parallel Lives
Jaclyn Fromer, L '13
LuAnne Tyzzer, RSHOE/MAJCS '11


Drumming My Way to Davenning
David Vaisberg, N '11

Israeli Agents for Change
Benjie Gruber, J '09
Naama Dafni-Kellen, J '12
Galit Cohen Kedem, J '12
Uri Lam, J '12, Telalit Shavit
J '12, Orr Zohar, J '12
Meirav Kalush, J '12
Eli Yoel Levin, J '12


HUC-JIR Alumni Changing The World

Rabbi Rachel Cowan: A Rabbi's Rabbi

The Circuit-Riding Rabbi of The South
Rabbi Batsheva Appel, N '96

Following the Signposts: From Ukraine to Ethiopia
Joy Sisisky, MJCS, MPA '00

Judaism Down Under: The Doctor Who Became a Rabbi
Gersh Zylberman, L '05

Three Decades of Education and Leadership: Rabbi Sam Joseph

The 2008 Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture -- Opening the Door to the Deep: Creating a Women's Torah Commentary
Dr. Andrea L. Weiss

The Power of Learning From and With Women Scholars
Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson

The Newest Link in the Chain of Biblical Interpretation
Dr. Carole B. Balin

Reflections on the Torah, A Women's Commentary and Post-Biblical Interpretation
Dr. Alyssa M. Gray

On the "Voices" Section as an Occasion For Deep (Feminist) Torah Study
Dr. Wendy Zierler

Excerpts of New Books by HUC-JIR Faculty

The Jews: A History
Dr. Joshua Holo

Behikansi Atah (In My Entering Now, Seclected Works of Hava Shapiro)
Carole B. Balin and Wendy Zierler

No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France
Dr. Susan L. Einbinder

Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
Dr. Mark Kligman

The Cambridge Companion to Philo
Dr. Adam Kamesar

Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers
Dr. Adriane Leveen

A Great Voice that Did Not Cease: The Growth of the Rabbinic Canon and Its Interpretation
Dr. Michael Chernick

Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
Essays in Honor of Dr. Michael A. Meyer

Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism
Dr. Dvora E. Weisberg

Who are the Real Chosen People
Dr. Reuven Firestone

Germans into Jews: Remaking the Jewish Social Body in Weimar Germany
Dr. Sharon Gillerman

Modalities in Medieval Jewish Law for Public Order and Safety
Dr. Stephen M. Passamaneck

The American Jewish Archives Journal, Vol. LXI, No. 1 (2009)

Graduation/Ordination/Investiture 2009 – Addresses, Honorary Degrees, Prizes, and Photo Album

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