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 Deborah Shapiro Named Regional Director of Admissions and Recruitment at HUC-JIR/LA 
Shapiro, who received an MA in Jewish Communal Service from HUC-JIR/LA in 2004 and an MPA from USC, began work this week at the Los Angeles Campus as the newly appointed Regional Director of Admissions and Recruitment. Since her graduation from HUC-JIR in 2004, she has worked for Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life in Washington, D.C., most recently as the Senior Accreditation Associate and the Senior Associate for Campus Advancement.
Shapiro worked at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles during her graduate studies, and has also worked at the Hillel Foundation of Orange County as a Program Director. She has her BA in Communication, with a minor in Socio-Cultural Linguistics, from UC-Santa Barbara. 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 |
