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Message from the Chairs
We are so glad to share this first issue of the Branching Out, Building Together: A Capital Campaign for Hebrew College quarterly e-newsletter, where we will be providing news and updates about our campaign to build a new shared campus and vibrant hub for Jewish life, learning, and leadership in Newton.
Under the excellent and tireless leadership of Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld and Board Chair Andy Offit—who have been working with dedicated board members, community leaders, donors, alumni, staff, and students to develop a strategic vision for Hebrew College’s next chapter—we are so excited to be co-chairing the Capital Campaign that will make the vision for a new campus collaborative into a reality.
Imagine with us! It’s winter 2022. Hebrew College’s new home is on a shared campus with Temple Reyim, Mayyim Hayyim, the Jewish Arts Collaborative, the Jewish Women's Archive, Keshet, and several other wonderful, mission-aligned organizations. Together with our campus partners, Hebrew College is continuing its sacred work as a center for Jewish learning and leadership and creating a dynamic collaborative that will be a national model for Jewish communal sustainability, creativity, leadership development, and innovation.
In this newsletter, you will meet one of our campus partners, read donor stories, and view a list of those who have already joined our campaign. We hope you will add your name to the list, if you haven't already, to help us reach our campaign goal—after which we will unlock a generous challenge grant for the last much-needed $1 million from a major philanthropic foundation.
Please enjoy this inaugural issue and join us to "branch out and build together," as President Anisfeld says, "to carry forward the College’s enduring commitment to Jewish literacy, creativity, and community, to plant the seeds for a future that is even more full of possibility than we can imagine—because we will create it together!"
Nancy Kaplan Belsky and Susan Schechter
On behalf of all the Campaign co-chairs
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Branching Out: Mayyim Hayyim's Carrie Bornstein
"The idea of having Hebrew College located here breaks open so much potential for how to infuse each other’s work. There are a lot of synergies between our organizations, being institutions of learning and education, and being pluralistic organizations that seek to bring together a diversity of different kinds of Jews.
"Having the two organizations side-by-side helps rabbis and cantors consider how the mikveh can be infused in their work and how it can help nourish them personally. We've had a number of volunteer Mikveh Guides who are involved in Hebrew College some way. We’ve hosted Hebrew College Open Circle Jewish Learning courses in the past. We recently hired rabbinical student and intern Amalia Mark as our new Director of Programs and Partnerships. And we’re also creating a clergy-student mikveh fellowship and we’re going to be piloting that with Hebrew College with the hopes of expanding it out from there to other rabbinical schools."
— Carrie Bornstein, Mayyim Hayyim Chief Executive Officer
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Building Together:
Susan & Bob Schechter
"My husband Bob and I became interested in the Hebrew College Capital Campaign because of Rabbi Sharon’s vision and dream—and her courage. We wanted to support Sharon and ensure there would be a vibrant Hebrew College for generations to come. I never dreamed that the collaboration could extend in the way it has. It’s bringing together a community of like-minded thinkers—organizations and partners who are all out-of-the-box thinkers. With this new shared campus, Hebrew College will be a role model for the rest of the Jewish community here in Greater Boston, across the United States, and internationally. At a time when some institutions are weakening, this vision and move is testament to Hebrew College's strength of vision and to what strong leadership can achieve."
— Susan Schechter, Capital Campaign Co-Chair
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Hebrew College's New Shared Campus
On March 16, Hebrew College announced plans for our new shared campus with Temple Reyim and other partners in the Auburndale neighborhood of Newton, MA to an outpouring of excitement on social media and in the press.
Please visit the Capital Campaign website for regular updates. If you have questions or would like to discuss a Capital Campaign gift, combination Capital Campaign-Annual Fund gift, or Naming Opportunity, please contact Rosa Franck, Director of Development.
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Thank You to our Supporters
We are grateful to the following donors who have already pledged support for our Capital Campaign.
Anonymous (3)
Rabbi Sharon and Shimon Cohen Anisfeld
Dorothea Buckler
Harvey and Marsha Chasen Family Charitable Trust
Carol and Carl Chudnofsky
Rabbi Jevin and Dr. Janine Eagle
Deborah and Ron Feinstein
Fern Fisher and Jack Eiferman
Myrna H. Freedman
Marjorie R. Freiman
Anne Germanacos
Catharyn and Mike Gildesgame
Barbara S. Ginsberg and Ira Schreck
Lillian and Richard Gray
Rabbi Art Green
Louis Grossman
Beryl and David Hoffman
Rabbi Jamie and Harold Kotler
Molli Alzire Krausz z"l
Bernie and Lydia Kukoff
Alice and Rabbi Van Lanckton
Daniel L. Miller
Tara Mohr and Eric Ries
Beth and Michael Moskowitz, in loving memory of Herbert Glanz
Myra Musicant and Howard Cohen
Rabbi Suzanne and Andrew Offit
Terry Rosenberg and Elliot Schildkrout
Susan and Glenn Rothman
Ronni Sachs Kotler
Susan and Bob Schechter
Joanne Schindler and Rabbi Allan Lehmann in loving memory of René Lehmann
Rabbi Ma'ayan and Richard Sands
Susan Shevitz and Lawrence Bailis
Amy and Ross Silverstein
Susan and James Snider
Myra and Robert Snyder
Ori and Sarah Sonnenfeld Noked
Cheryl Spencer Memorial Foundation
Carol and Steven Targum
Ann and Rick Tavan
Diane Troderman
Deanna and Sidney Wolk
In loving memory of Donald Bavly by:
The Family of Donald Bavly
Jody Fredman
Rita and Herbert Gann
Rosanne and Harvey Greenstein
Vicki and Alan Greenstein
Marilyn and Samuel Jacobs
Amy Klein and Brian Lefsky
Cynthia and William Marcus
Elaine Perkins
Shirley Saunders
Sharon Shapiro
Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc.
Nancy and Mark Belsky
Susan B. Kaplan
Scott Kaplan Belsky
Gila Belsky Modell
Israel and Matilda Goldberg Family Foundation
in loving memory of Herbert and Barbara Goldberg by:
Louise Citron
Debra Goldberg
Janet Greenfield
Torah Babes:
Nancy Kaplan Belsky
Dorothea Buckler
Deborah Feinstein
Marjorie R. Freiman
Ronni Sachs Kotler
Susan Schechter
Polly Slavet
(List in formation)
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Join us on May 2, 2021
Welcome Reception 4:50-5 p.m. | Program 5-5:30 p.m. EST
Honoring Visionaries, Pioneers, and Community Builders
Beverly Bavly | Nancy Kaplan Belsky | Susan Schechter
Myra Snyder| Diane Troderman
Free| Donations & sponsorships appreciated | RSVP by April 23
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Branching Out, Building Together
Capital Campaign Leadership
Campaign Co-Chairs
Beverly Bavly
Nancy Kaplan Belsky
Andy Offit
Susan Schechter
Myra Snyder
Diane Troderman
Honorary Committee Community Leaders & Scholars
Lawrence Bacow
Rabbi Marc Baker
Michael Bohnen
Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Anita Diamant
Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum
Rabbi David Ellenson
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Michael Fishbane
Rabbi Arthur Green
Celene Ibrahim
Joshua Jacobson
Judith Kates
Idit Klein
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
Ruth Messinger
Shula Reinharz
Judith Rosenbaum
Terry Rosenberg
Jonathan Sarna
Barry Shrage
Rabbi Mark Sokoll
Carol Targum
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Hebrew College is an innovative national institute for Jewish learning and leadership based in Newton, Massachusetts. We are dedicated to Jewish literacy, creativity, and community, and a world of dignity and compassion for all. Our students are future rabbis, cantors, and educators, and people at every stage of life who love to learn. Together, we are infusing Jewish life with substance, spirit, beauty, imagination, and a sense of purpose.
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