Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Four women standing together against a wooden wall

Connections and Creations: Finding Meaning in the Berkshires

Rena Crawford

I thought that attending Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in the Berkshires would be an incredibly inspirational, gratifying, and uniquely Jewish few days of learning — don’t get me wrong, it was! Unbelievably, it was all that and

drinking and drashing

Translating Torah Into True & Tangible Tactics

At the beginning of April 2020, Rabbi David Adelson, the Dean of the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) New York campus, asked me how I was feeling in a one-on-one meeting. We had switched over to Zoom full-time a few weeks earlier