Next month, Hebrew College rabbinical students will participate in their annual Winter Intensives, a powerful week of exploration, connection, and growth, providing a context for meaningful interreligious engagement in their future careers. Developed and hosted by Hebrew College’s Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership, the intensives are planned to build interreligious understanding as students move through the ordination program. First year students will participate in “From Diversity to Pluralism”, designed to cultivate an ethos of dignified engagement across religious traditions. Intensives for subsequent classes will provide a deep dive into Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism while fostering the ethic of religious pluralism that guides the Miller Center’s work.

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Next up in our fall season of Hebrew College's Speaking Torah podcast we talk to Rabbi Lenny Gordon, Tamid of Hebrew College adult learning instructor, who led our Jewish Discovery Tour of Spain last spring and will lead our next international learning journey to Central Europe (visiting Vienna, Prague, and Budapest) this May. He's joined by Tamid Director Kim Bodemer, who accompanied domestic travelers on our October Civil Rights trip to the American South. 

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By seeing Deborah’s potential, we give her room to grow as a character. Her story expands and her legacy deepens. Our ability to see potential in not just a character, but in another person, matters. It matters beyond the parchment of our Torah and beyond the context of our tradition. We know this to be a scientifically proven fact. When we fail to see a person’s potential, they fail to live up to their potential. A 2005 study about the influence of stereotypes on academic performance, engagement, and self-concept demonstrated that when people are treated as unfriendly, they are more likely to act unfriendly. When people are told that they are intellectually inferior, they are more likely to doubt their intelligence and to keep their thoughts to themselves.

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A former organization and change management consultant, Michelle Black now applies her business skills and experience serving as a strategic advisor, fundraiser, and community builder within the Jewish community. “I’m deeply honored to have the opportunity to partner with Michelle Black as a member of our Board of Trustees and look forward to the many ways in which the entire Hebrew College community will benefit from the depth of her wisdom and passion, the breadth of her experience, and the expansiveness of her vision, ” says Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld.