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March 25, 2021 | 12 Nisan 5781
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NEWS & VIEWS Chag Pesach Sameach!
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Jewish Community Kvells over Hebrew College's New Home and Partnerships
After a three-year journey, Hebrew College was excited last week to announce its new home. And the positive response has been overwhelming. (Read more here.) In December 2022, the College will relocate to a new shared campus and interdisciplinary hub for Jewish life on the grounds of Temple Reyim in Newton, MA—a destination that embodies the College’s core values of deep Jewish learning and leadership in service of a more vibrant, creative, and inclusive community.
"I am beyond thrilled to share this news and so grateful for the friendships, partnerships, shared vision, and generosity of heart and hand that has made this possible. Eyzehu shir hasameach b'heiko. Who is rich? The one who rejoices in being part of something greater," Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld wrote on Facebook in response to an outpouring of social media excitement and support for the College just after the announcement.
Hebrew College is fortunate to have Temple Reyim as a partner in creating this new campus. Joining our campus collaborative will be nine other dynamic Jewish organizations, developing a post-pandemic shared space that can provide a national model for communal innovation and sustainability and serve the evolving needs of an ever-changing Jewish community.
As part of the move, Hebrew College launched Branching Out, Building Together, a Capital Campaign to raise $9.5 million by October 15, 2021. We are more than half-way there, with $5.8 million in generous leadership gifts.
"We are filled with gratitude, humility, and an awesome sense of responsibility for the future of this beloved communal institution," said President Anisfeld.
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Find New Meaning in Your Seder
Generate new questions and conversations at your seder this year with The Hebrew College Passover Companion. Structured around the seder's simanim, or signposts, the Companion brings you from the ritual’s beginning to closing. In addition, Hebrew College has developed teachings related to the Companion for the national Days of Gratitude Project.
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Rabbi Arthur Green: Productive & Prolific at 80
When Hebrew College Rector Rabbi Art Green turned 70, he asked himself, "What do you still want to get done?" The answer, he said, was "a whole lot."
"I began working harder than ever, and it's been very rewarding, both in terms of writing and teaching,” he said. “It's been a very prolific decade for me, and as long as I have the strength I will keep going."
On March 21, Hebrew College Rector Rabbi Art Green celebrated his 80th birthday—and his most productive and prolific decade thus far. Since he turned 70, he has published or edited five books. His new translation of the Hasidic Classic Me'orʿEynayim, "The Light of the Eyes," will be published by Stanford University Press this spring, and he is preparing to teach his second eight-week-Hebrew College Me’ah Select community education online course, ”Old Wine, New Vessels: A Hasidic Master Addresses Today’s Seekers,” (still enrolling) based on the book, beginning April 12.
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Being with our food and being with ourselves
Parashat Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36)
By Rabbi Minna Bromberg `10 | Founder and President of Fat Torah
I was listening to a Jewish podcast the other day on which the hosts were doing a segment about different kinds of food. Toward the end of the segment I realized that I had spent the entire 20 minutes bracing myself for the invasion of diet culture into their conversation. The invasion never came. There was exactly zero moralizing about the foods they were discussing. None of them had a bad word to say about themselves or anyone else for eating certain kinds of foods, nor was anyone praised for restricting their intake or only eating foods that were deemed morally “good.” This lack of moralizing around food was as refreshing as it was rare.
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More than 145 households "zoomed" in for the final workshop in the Metrowest Jewish Culturefest: Food, Music and You series, "Pesach: The Sweet, the Sour and the Unexpected" with Chazzan Danny Maseng (above), sponsored by Hebrew College and several metrowest communities. The multi-generational and interactive workshop including song, teaching, and a cooking lesson with Maseng. Try his tzimmes recipe!
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May 2, 2021
Welcome Reception 4:50–5 p.m. EST
Program 5-5:30 p.m.
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Honoring visionaries, pioneers, and community builders
Beverly Bavly — Nancy Kaplan Belsky — Susan Schechter
Myra Snyder — Diane Troderman
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OTHER EVENTS (ALL EST)
Pesach Full Moon Workshop: Zachar & Nekevah
Passover, Sacred Gender, and Self-Liberation
Sponsored by the Breath Lab
March 31 | 7-8:30 p.m.
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Rabbi Art Green's 80th Birthday Event
April 5 | 7 p.m.
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Hebrew College Me'ah Graduation
April 22 | 6:30-8 p.m.
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Hebrew College Virtual Spring Event: What Makes a Community?
May 2 | Welcome Reception 4:50-5 p.m. | Program 5-5:30 p.m.
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18th Annual Connie Spear Birnbaum Memorial Lecture and Chai Anniversary Celebration featuring Yossi Klein Halevi
Hosted by the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts
Co-sponsored by Hebrew College
May 2 | 12:30 p.m.
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GIVING
Visit our Giving Page to send tributes, recognize yahrzeits, and support Hebrew College.
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