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 HUC-JIR/NY Students and Faculty Study and Retreat at Annual Kallah Students and faculty from HUC-JIR/NY came together at the URJ's Camp Kutz in Warwick, NY August 24-26, 2008 for the annual academic retreat Kallah. The theme of this year's Kallah was feminism and gender-related issues. Students and faculty participated in different programs from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon, including a discussion of challenges facing men in liberal Judaism and transgender issues. For a program on milestones in feminism, Rabbi Sally Priesand, C '72, the first woman ordained at HUC-JIR, came to speak to the participants. A committee of students worked together to plan the worship services for the retreat. Rabbi Renni Altman, Associate Dean and Director of The Rabbinical School, stated that through these services and programs, "a sense of community was fostered throughout the two days." Kallah was also the beginning of the classes for the school year. 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 |
