March 12, 2026 | 23 Adar 5786
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Reimagining Jewish learning and leadership for an interconnected world.
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Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei | Candlelighting 6:30 PM EST
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HEBREW COLLEGE HIDDUSH FELLOWSHIP
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Emerging Jewish Leaders Gather on Campus
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Last weekend, Hebrew College welcomed a cohort of 40 emerging Jewish leaders to campus for an immersive retreat and shabbaton. Operating for the first time this year, Hebrew College’s Hiddush Fellowship seeks to cultivate the curiosity, creativity, and spirit that define effective Jewish leadership in the 21st century through sustained learning, mentorship with experienced rabbis, and encounters with the intellectual and spiritual life of the rabbinical school. While participants entered the fellowship from many backgrounds and professional paths, the program’s broader aim is to nurture a rising generation of Jewish leaders grounded in Torah, committed to service, and passionate about guiding communities through the complexities of contemporary Jewish life. The fellows’ time on campus served as the centerpiece of a program that will continue online for the duration of the calendar year.
Hebrew College is enormously grateful to the H&F Baker Foundation for their lead gift to make this pilot fellowship possible, as well as to the Dorot Foundation, for their generous supporting grant. The College is also deeply grateful to the fellows whose curiosity and passion animate this community of learning.
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MATAROT: CENTER FOR JEWISH PROFESSIONAL LEARNING & LEADERSHIP
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Hebrew College Bonim Beyachad Fellowship
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“Being part of the Bonim Beyachad program has been an incredible learning experience. Thanks to the fellowship, I feel inspired to move forward and pursue formal certification. Bonim Beyachad has given me the confidence to see a long-term path for myself in Jewish education, and for that, I will be forever thankful. I have truly enjoyed every moment of the program so far, and I am already looking forward to the rest of our time together.” — Facely Roame, Temple Kol Emeth, Marietta, GA
Hebrew College’s Bonim Beyachad program is an online, 10-month national cohort-based fellowship to support adults new to teaching in part-time and supplemental Jewish educational settings.
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| Facely Roame,
Bonim Beyachad Fellow
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Campus Partnership in Action: Hebrew College-Mayyim Hayyim Rabbinic Interns Deepen Community Connections
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“We are deeply grateful for our exceptional Hebrew College Rabbinic Interns, Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth and Yael Marans, who each dedicate 10 hours a week to Mayyim Hayyim. They strengthen our education programs, enrich our mikveh guiding, and expand our community engagement—and we’re thrilled to have them teaching at Lehrhaus on Tuesday, March 17 and Tuesday, March 24. As vital bridges between Mayyim Hayyim and Hebrew College, Yael and Sivan deepen the shared learning between our institutions. This year, they have written immersion ceremonies, crafted community newsletters, led text study for our Seven Steps Online Mikveh Guide, and served as thoughtful ambassadors. They bring insight, care, and rabbinic wisdom to all they do, and we are fortunate to have their partnership and leadership on our team.” — Bev Klau, Mayyim Hayyim Director of Programs and Partnerships
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Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth and Yael Marans
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In our own wildernesses—personal, communal, societal—the temptation is to rush ahead, to force resolution. We crave unambiguous direction. Yet Parshat Pekudei closes the book of Exodus not with a triumphant declaration, but with a hovering cloud. Tradition teaches that today, in the absence of the mishkan, our tables become our altars. I like to imagine not only the dining table, where bread and wine sanctify daily life, but also the table where we create—where we write, sketch, weave, cook, mend, compose. These, too, are sanctuaries. When we engage in creativity not only as performance but as practice, we build inner mishkans—spaces where the Divine might dwell. And when the cloud comes—when clarity blurs and outcomes remain uncertain—we are invited not to panic, but to pause.
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Educating for Leadership, Dialogue, and Resilience
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Hebrew College Vice President Dr. Susie Tanchel and Dean of the Rabbinical School Rabbi Daniel Klein `10 were featured in the March issue of Covenant Foundation Site Line. The article “Educating for Leadership, Dialogue, and Resilience, at Hebrew College” focused on a conversation with Tanchel and Klein about leading intentional, productive dialogue on campus, particularly related to the challenges of the pandemic and October 7.
“We were processing our own feelings and managing our own responses to the attack, and at the same time we had to lead a pluralistic institution,” Tanchel said. “We needed to quickly figure out how to hold ourselves accountable—to ourselves, and to our community. We decided to engage students in dialogue around leadership,” she continued. “Our students are going to be leading institutions very soon. We needed to think with them about what it would mean to lead a community through a crisis like this, and what it would mean to hold ourselves responsible, too.” Read the article
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Catch up on recent Hebrew College news and stories, including articles about faculty, students, and alumni who have been recognized for their work and scholarship here.
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Hebrew College Spring Gala 2026
May 14 | Hebrew College
6:30 PM Dinner, Program, and Dessert Reception
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L'Dor Vador Award: Honoring Intergenerational Learning and Leadership
Helene, Seth, and Benjamin Gelber
Betzalel Award: Honoring Leadership in Arts and Culture
Joshua Meyer
Esther Award: Honoring Courageous Women's Leadership
Terry Rosenberg
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Watch for your invitation! Corporate sponsorships available.
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SOUL SOUNDS
Kedmah: Lecture & Concert
Sunday, March 15 | 6:30-9:30 PM | Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Hebrew College Soul Sounds is excited to join Hadar Boston and Base Boston to co-sponsor a concert and pre-concert lecture with Kedmah.
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NEW! SHARED CAMPUS PARTNERS
Hello Headcoverings? An Exploratory Discussion on Jewish Headcovering and Gender
Tuesday, March 17 | 6-7:15 PM | Lehrhaus, Somerville, MA
Sponsored by Collaborative Campus Partner Mayyim Hayyim
Inspired by campus partner Jewish Studio Project's Jewish Studio Process, study texts about headcovering and gender and engage in reflective art-making with Hebrew College rabbinical student and Mayyim Hayyim intern Yael Marans.
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TAMID OF HEBREW COLLEGE
Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir - A Conversation with Dr. Shulamit Reinharz
Thursday, March 19 | 7-8:30 PM | Hebrew College
Join us for a free talk with Dr. Shulamit Reinharz about her book, Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir, penned with her father Max Rothschild. Together, they tell the story of a Jewish man who saved Max's life repeatedly during the Holocaust.
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NEW! SHARED CAMPUS PARTNERS
The Manner of Women: A Literary Look at Menstruation and Niddah in Classic Jewish Sources
Tuesday, March 24 | 6-7:15 PM | Lehrhaus, Somerville, MA
Sponsored by Collaborative Campus Partner Mayyim Hayyim
Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth, Hebrew College rabbinical student and Mayyim Hayyim rabbinic intern, and Jewish educator Aki Yonekawai will share stories from Tanakh and Talmud that feature menstruation and mikveh immersion.
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NEW! SHARED CAMPUS PARTNERS
From Narrow Places to Open Pathways: A Passover Creative Immersive – Boston
Sunday, March 29 | 1-4:30 PM | Hebrew College
Join the Jewish Studio project, in partnership with B’nai Or Boston and Hebrew College, for a nourishing half-day immersive using the Jewish Studio Process — combining Jewish text study, hands-on art-making, and reflective writing — to explore themes of constriction, release, and becoming woven through the Passover story and our own lives.
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ART EXHIBIT
A Journey of Wonder: A Visual Dance with the Hebrew Holiday Calendar
Sunday, March 29 | 5-7 PM | Hebrew College
Join us for the opening of our spring art exhibit with works by artist Deborah Feinstein, chair of the Hebrew College Arts Committee and a trustee of the college. Featuring paintings that celebrate and correspond with the Jewish calendar cycle, inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts.
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NEW! TAMID OF HEBREW COLLEGE
GROW April: Dispatch from Jerusalem: “Leading an Israeli Organization at a Time of Crisis”
Wednesday, April 15 | 12-1 PM | Zoom
Join Hebrew College Provost, Rabbi Dan Judson in conversation with Rabbi Leon Morris, President of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, as they discuss the experience of leading an Israeli organization at a time of crisis.
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TAMID OF HEBREW COLLEGE
GROW May: Building Moral Courage in a Fragile Democracy
Wednesday, May 13 | 12-1 PM | Zoom
Join us online when Jody Kipnis, co-founder, President & CEO of the Holocaust Legacy Foundation, will speak about how democracies erode, how dehumanization takes root, and how ordinary individuals develop the moral courage to speak up.
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Sacred Sparks! Hebrew College Spring Gala 2026
Thursday, May 14 | 6:30 PM Dinner, Program, and Dessert Reception | Hebrew College
Join us to celebrate our three award recipients: Helene, Seth, and Benjamin Gelber; Joshua Meyer; and Terry Rosenberg.
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