May 19, 2022 | 18 Iyar 5782

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Reimagining Jewish learning and leadership for an interconnected world.

Parashat Behar | Candlelighting 7:46 PM EST

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION HONOREES

Howard Cohen & Myra Musicant:
Jewish Community Builders

“You don’t get a chance every day to find a campus, and the fiscal outcome is going to be stupendous. I think that what Rabbi Sharon and the College have put together is an incredibly unique outcome. It’s a place where the College could be for the next 100 years.” — Howard Cohen

“The synergies of all of these different organizations being together under one roof is going to be amazing for the community. The new building will truly showcase Hebrew College’s deep involvement in the Greater Boston community and beyond.” — Myra Musicant

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Join us for our June 2 Centennial Celebration

SEVENTY FACES OF TORAH
This blog also appears weekly in Patheos.

The Power of Perspective
By Rev. Tom Reid, Associate Director
Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College

Perhaps we have more in common with the soil than we realize. Rest is clearly important to God. And even the land in its complexity and diversity is worthy of it—of a chance to pause, to rest, to rejuvenate. The year of shabbaton, a period of complete and solemn rest, prescribed in Leviticus 25:4 can also serve to remind us tiny humans that the world exists just fine beyond our control.

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Reintroducing Shabbos
An excerpt by Rabbi Nehemia Polen from the preface of his new book Stop Look Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens

My father was a heavy smoker... On Shabbos my father didn’t smoke. This was not surprising, since our family was shomer Shabbos (Sabbath observant), as we called it. What was remarkable, however, was the fact that my father did not feel the urge to smoke on Shabbos. With the welcoming of Shabbos came a release from the incessant desire to light up another cigarette. Shabbos freed my father from enslavement to tobacco. I recall him once expressing dread of the moment when, just after Havdalah (the liturgy of bringing Shabbos to a close on Saturday evening after nightfall) the ache for nicotine would reappear. What was it about our family’s Shabbos observance that supplanted, if only for a day, his intense physiological need and psychological dependency?

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STATE OF FORMATION BLOG
Practicing Acceptance through Interfaith

By Deepak Ganesan, Miller Center BILI fellow

Before I joined the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service (CSDS) at Northeastern, I had never heard the term “interfaith” before. I was suddenly and violently thrown into an environment of new ideas, friendly people, and schools of thought I had never encountered. I’ll be honest—it was scary at first. But I quickly learned that people in interfaith settings generally have the same goal: to facilitate a friendlier and more accepting world regardless of belief system.

Hebrew College 2022/5782 Ordainees

Commencement & Ordination 2022/5782
May 29 | In person at Temple Reyim & livestreamed
Commencement - Noon
Cantorial Ordination - 1:30 p.m.
Rabbinic Ordination - 3 p.m.
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JTFGB Grant Ceremony
Hebrew College Jewish Teen Foundation of
Greater Boston's Annual Grant Ceremony
June 1, 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Zoom
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Hebrew College Centennial Celebration
Remember. Renew. Reimagine.
Hybrid event on June 2
In person at Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley, 6:30-8:30 p.m. or
virtually 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Reservations & tributes

Hebrew College Centennial Alumni Zoom Reunion
For alumni who plan to join us virtually for Hebrew College’s Centennial Celebration livestream
June 2, 7-7:30 p.m. | Zoom
Register for the reunion | Register for the Centennial Celebration livestream

Virtual “Taste of Me’ah”
Hebrew College's two-year Adult Learning program
June 14, 7-8:15 p.m. | Zoom
Learn more & register

The Jewish Queer Arts Festival
Presented by the JCC of Greater Baltimore
Hebrew College is an event partner
June 16-26 | Gordon Center, Baltimore, MD
Learn more & purchase a Pride Pass

Masks required for all on-campus events.

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SEVENTY FACES OF TORAHThis blog also appears weekly in Patheos.

Reintroducing ShabbosAn excerpt by Rabbi Nehemia Polen from the preface of his new book Stop Look Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens

STATE OF FORMATION BLOG Practicing Acceptance through Interfaith

By Deepak Ganesan, Miller Center BILI fellow

Read more...

Hebrew College 2022/5782 Ordainees

SEVENTY FACES OF TORAH
This blog also appears weekly in Patheos.

Reintroducing Shabbos
An excerpt by Rabbi Nehemia Polen from the preface of his new book Stop Look Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens

STATE OF FORMATION BLOG
Practicing Acceptance through Interfaith