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August 26, 2021 | 18 Elul 5781
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Koleinu|our voice|
Reimagining Jewish learning and leadership for an interconnected world.
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Parashat Ki Tavo | Candlelighting 7:08 PM EST
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Welcome back to Koleinu ("our voice"), Hebrew College's new weekly newsletter. Each week, we send a selection of resources, special features, and reflections in time for Shabbat. We look forward to sharing the inspiring voices of our community with you during this centennial year!
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SEVENTY FACES OF TORAH
This blog also appears weekly in Patheos.
Our Evolving Relationship
To PrayerBy Rabbi Brian Besser
During upcoming High Holiday services, we will shortly confront one of the most theologically disturbing prayers in all Jewish liturgy, the Unetaneh Tokef, which begins: “On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is decreed . . . who shall live and who shall die . . . . ”
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Hebrew College Welcomes New Ordination Students
Hebrew College’s new rabbinical and cantorial students include former teachers, musicians, start-up founders and managers, and divinity students, as well as a Jewish day school dean and a professor of anthropology. The new students, who started orientation on Sunday, August 22, will enter the Mekorot (preparatory), Shanah Aleph, and Shanah Bet classes. The new ordination students create a student body of 80 future rabbis and cantors.
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Responding to the Needs of Jewish Educators Today
Each week since March 2020, Hebrew College, with support from CJP, has convened a Thursday morning conversation for Jewish education directors in the Greater Boston Area to connect and commiserate during this unprecedented time. Educators have shared the challenges and demands that they have faced, and the opportunities they see for the future—and Hebrew College has listened and responded. Now Hebrew College is launching two new timely, accessible, and affordable programs to meet the needs of Jewish educators today.
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CENTENNIAL KICK-OFF EVENT
Speaking Torah: Centennial Season
As we prepare for our next season of Hebrew College's Speaking Torah podcast, which will celebrate our centennial (1921-2021), we encourage you to return to our earlier seasons. In Episode 9, Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld read an essay by Hebrew College alumnus Rabbi Jordan Braunig `14, a teacher, pastoral caregiver, and community organizer who currently serves as Jewish Chaplain at Emory University.
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IN MEMORIAM
Hebrew College mourns the passing of Charlotte (Savitz) Teplow, wife of Trustee Emeritus Theodore Teplow. Our most sincere condolences go out to Ted, their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchild. May the Holy One comfort this family among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Read more....
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CENTENNIAL KICK-OFF EVENT
"Seeing Torah" Art Exhibit Opening
Hebrew College Ted Cutler Atrium
September 12 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Free
Exhibit runs through December 2021
Learn more & RSVP
Masks required for all on-campus events.
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SUPPORT JEWISH LEARNING & LEADERSHIP IN OUR DIVERSE AND INTERCONNECTED WORLD
Please help open the doors of Jewish learning to students of all backgrounds and ages—and join Hebrew College in making our lives more meaningful, our communities more vibrant, and our world more whole. Your gift of any amount will make a real difference. Make a gift. Thank you!
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