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 HUC-JIR Graduation Honors Jewish Leaders, Alumni and Graduating Class of 2008 on the Los Angeles Campus  Daniel Sokatch, HUC-JIR/LA Graduation Speaker, with Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., President of HUC-JIR  Doctor of Humane Letters recipient Christoph von Dohnanyi with HUC-JIR faculty  Doctor of Humane Letters recipient Professor Jacqueline Powers Doud with HUC-JIR faculty Nearly 300 communal leaders, relatives, and friends gathered at the Los Angeles Campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for the Graduation Ceremonies of the 133rd academic year. The convocation honored the activism, scholarship, and visionary leadership of noted Jewish leader Daniel Sokatch, who presented the Graduation Address. The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was awarded to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Principal Conductor, Philharmonia Orchestra, London, Professor Jacqueline Powers Doud, President, Mount St. Mary's College. Carmen H. Warschaw, philanthropist, received the American Jewish Distinguished Service Award. Phyllis Cook, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma Counties and Rabbi Susan Laemmle, Dean of Religious Life and Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Southern California, received the Presidents' Medals. HUC-JIR alumni were awarded honorary Doctorates of Divinity, Music, Jewish Religious Education, and Jewish Communal Service in recognition of their 25 years of distinguished professional service.  Doctor of Divinity recipient, Rabbi David M. Frank, with HUC-JIR faculty  Doctor of Divinity recipient, Rabbi Aaron Mark Petuchowski, with HUC-JIR faculty  The Doctor of Music recipient, Cantor Morris Chotin  Doctor of Jewish Communal Service recipients Anne Levine Brener; Dr. Pini Herman; Andrew W. Rose; Sandra M. Rubenstein  Doctor of Jewish Religious Education recipients Nili H. Kosmal and Rabbi Stanley T. Schickler, RJE  American Jewish Distinguished Service Award recipient Carmen H. Warschaw  President's Medal recipient Rabbi Susan Laemmle  President's Medal recipient Phyllis Cook  Master of Arts in Jewish Education, Class of 2008, with HUC-JIR administration Olga Frankstein Bluman, Eliana Michelle Hall, Noam Shalom Katz, Jordan Elizabeth Magidson, Ari Nathan Margolis, Eric Ellis Mason, Sara Michal Mason, Daniel Bloom Medwin, Lydia Bloom Medwin, Lev Chaim Metz, Rena Yael Polonsky, Micol Eliana Zimmerman  Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters, Class of 2008, with HUC-JIR administration Rachel Ellen Ackerman, Anne Levine Brener, Daniel Burkeman, Jordana Felic Chernow-Reader, Rochelle Joy Kamins, Daniel Bloom Medwin, Lydia Bloom Medwin, Joshua Marc Samuels, Jordana Ariel Schuster, Jacob Matthew Singer-Beilin, Rebekah Pechman Stern, Miriam Pauline Terlinchamp, Julia Atlas Weisz  Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service, Class of 2008, with HUC-JIR administration Alicia Cohen, Brian David Garfield, Lev Chaim Metz, Lori Michelle Noto, Dana Elizabeth Plyler, Devi Reznik, Robyn Leah Schneider, Deborah M. Tehrani, Bahar Yaghoubian Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
