Year in review Sep 25, 2009
Alysa Stanton becomes the first African-American female rabbi after being ordained by the Reform movement s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The United Jewish Communities decides to change its name to the Jewish Federations of North America and hires former business executive Jerry Silverman as its president and CEO.. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Alfred Gottschalk; ordained 1st female rabbi in US, Israel Sep 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, a leader of Reform Judaism who ordained the first American female rabbi and headed Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for three decades, died last Saturday in Cincinnati ... Rabbi Gottschalk, who escaped the Holocaust as a child in Germany, oversaw the expansion of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform seminary, and graduate school with campuses in Los Angeles, New York, Cincinnati, and Jerusalem, during 25 years as... (Boston Globe)
Hebrew Union College past president dies at 79 Sep 13, 2009
CINCINNATI - A spokeswoman says the former president and chancellor emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has died in Cincinnati. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
Roaming rabbi finds a new home Jun 27, 2009
In 1991, she entered Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She later served as rabbi educator at Temple Emanu-El in Lynbrook, N.Y., with more than 300 students, and associate rabbi at Congregation Beth Chaim, serving almost 800 families in Princeton Junction, N.J.. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Religion Briefs May 30, 2009
in November to perform her monologue, Layers, at Temple Adath Israel, will receive her master's degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati next week and will be ordained at Plum Street Temple there. She is scheduled to become the rabbi of Congregation Bayt Shalom on Aug. 1, working part-time. (Erie Times-News, PA)
1st black female rabbi to be ordained May 30, 2009
She enrolled in 2002 at the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the United States' oldest institution for training rabbis, cantors and educators of Reform Judaism. She believes her future is in God's hands but isn't satisfied with the world as it is, said Rabbi Kenneth Ehrlich, campus dean. (The Augusta Chronicle)
First Black Female Rabbi Preps for the Pulpit Alysa Stanton, 45, will be ordained as the first black female rabbi in June. May 22, 2009
(Courtesy Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion). But that day will come June 6 for the who will be ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, becoming the. (ABC News)
