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 HUC-JIR Cantorial Faculty to Lead Inaugural Events at Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts at Abraham Geiger Kolleg, Berlin HUC-JIR faculty, including Cantor Bruce Ruben, Director of the School of Sacred Music, Cantors Josee Wolff, Eli Schleifer, Yvon Shore, and Joyce Rosenzweig, will attend the opening of the Abraham Geiger Kolleg's cantorial school September 12 through 14, 2008. Geiger Cantorial Director Mimi Sheffer has organized a series of concerts and classes throughout the weekend. Cantor Ruben will sing Shacharit service at the historic Rykestrasse Synagogue and will speak and sing at the Sunday evening concert in honor of the significance of the occasion. Cantors Wolff, Shore, and Schleifer will teach master classes and perform with Joyce Rosenzweig in the Sunday concert. 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 |
