Category: Events

Hebrew College is excited to present a Shirah B’Yachad – Singing Together! A Concert Celebrating Cantor Louise Treitman and the College’s 100^th anniversary. We’re taking the opportunity during our centennial year to celebrate Cantor Treitman’s tenure and commitment and contributions to the College and the community! Read more about Cantor Treitman.

The concert is a collaboration between Kol Arev—Hebrew College’s Chamber Choir—and The Zamir Chorale of Boston, with Hebrew College alumni, students, and faculty.

>> VIEW THE DIGITAL PROGRAM BOOK

We have reached capacity for how many people we may welcome to the in-person concert. The event will also be livestreamed and we invite you to RSVP to receive the link, and/or submit a tribute to Louise!

Read Judy Bolton-Fasman’s interview with Cantors Treitman and Lynn Torgove, Director of  Hebrew College’s cantorial program and Artistic Director of Kol Arev, on JewishBoston.com

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Performers

Kol Arev is Hebrew College’s Chamber Choir which includes cantorial and rabbinical students, Hebrew College faculty, staff, and community members, under the direction of Music Director Amy Lieberman. Cantor Lynn Torgove is the choir’s Artistic Director, and the Director of the Cantorial Program.

The Zamir Chorale of Boston, under the direction of founder and Director Joshua Jacobson, is one of Hebrew College’s new shared campus partners.

Concert Co-Chairs
Cantor Marcie Jonas
Cantor Jodi Sufrin

Host Committee
Rabbi Sharon and Shimi Cohen Anisfeld
Patricia Aronson
Cantor Marilyn and Stanley Becker
Lisa Berman
Diane and Chester Black
Rabbi Dena Bodian
Joyce and Michael Bohnen
Rabbis Caryn Broitman and Brian Walt
Linda and Joe Chafets
Rabbi Karen Citrin and Rabbi Micah Citrin
Cantor Maayan Harel
Amy and Jonathan Imber
Rabbi Sandi Intraub from Beth El Temple Center
Sherry Israel
Josh and Ronda Jacobson
Matt, Sara, Emily, and Marcia Kaufman z”l
Cantor Jeff and Deeana Klepper
Rabbi Leora Kling Perkins
Michele Koppelman
Rabbi Jamie and Harold Kotler
Rabbi Jonathan Kraus
Rabbi David Lerner and Sharon Levin
Marcy Lidman
Amy Lieberman
Cantor Kevin Margolius
Cantor Dr. Brian Mayer
Susan Miron and Burton Fine
Hazzan Dr. Charles D. Osborne
Rabbi Joel Oseran
Rabbi Barbara Penzner
Cynthia Piltch and Jamie Katz
Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Dr. Michael Shire
Rabbinic Pastor Matia Rania Angelou
Cantor Rachel Reef-Simpson
Jinny Sagorin and Dr. Jeremy Schmahmann
Professors Jonathan D. Sarna and Ruth Langer
Susan Shevitz and Lawrence Bailis
Myra and Robert Snyder
Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn
Sue and Bill Stibel
Professor Ramie Targoff
Cantor Lynn Torgove
The Treitman Family
Roslyn Weiner
Justin Wyner
Lorel Zar-Kessler
Barbara and Rabbi Henry A. Zoob

(List in formation)

 

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Cantor Louise Treitman

Cantor Louise Treitman helped to create the Jewish Music Institute at Hebrew College in the 1980s, which subsequently became the School of Jewish Music (SJM), now the Hebrew College Cantorial Program.

She has continued her connection with Hebrew College since then in various capacities—as former Associate Dean of the School of Jewish Music, and currently as a part-time faculty member in the rabbinic and graduate Jewish education programs and as a teacher, advisor and cantorial coach in the cantorial program.

Cantor Treitman served Temple Beth David in Westwood, MA for 20 years and is honored to be their Cantor Emerita. She has served as High Holy Day Cantor at Beth Hillel in Rome, Italy, as well as Shir Hadash Firenze, in Florence, both members of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

With degrees from Wellesley College and the New England Conservatory of Music, she received her Certification as an Invested Cantor through HUC-JIR in New York. Cantor Treitman was the president of the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association of New England and also the founding president of the New England Board of Cantors. In addition to singing with the Zamir Chorale of Boston, she is co-founder/director of the vocal octet ‘Il Concerto di Salamone Rossi Hebreo.’

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Tickets, Tributes, and Sponsorships

Certain ticket levels include a tribute message to Louise that you can write and we will include in our virtual Tribute Book if received by March 31.

SPONSORSHIP levels

• Gold Benefactor $2,500+: Full gold-level tribute page and 5 VIP tickets
• Silver Sponsor $1,800 – $2,499: Full silver-level tribute page and 5 VIP tickets
• Patron $1,000 – $1,799: Full patron-level tribute page and 5 VIP tickets
• Supporter $500 – $999: Half-page tribute space and 3 VIP tickets
• Friend $360 – $499: Quarter-page tribute space and 2 VIP tickets
• Mazel Tov $54 – $359: One-line tribute message for Louise and 1 general admission ticket

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General admission

• General Admission: $36
• Seniors, Students: $18
• Hebrew College Students: Free

Donations without ticket purchases are also welcome.

Make your donation and/or buy tickets here

For gifts that provide an opportunity to share a tribute: please send your message to Mia Tavan at mtavan@hebrewcollege.edu before March 31.

For questions about gifts, please contact Rosa Franck, Director of Development, at advancement@hebrewcollege.edu. Thank you!

Join us for a special presentation and celebration of Chag HaBanot North African Chanukah Festival of Daughters with Jackie Barzvi. Learn history, customs, and the unique musical and dance traditions of Jewish women from North Africa AND some fabulous interactive dancing!

Bring your Hanukkiah for candle lighting!

>> View the flyer

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About Jackie Barzvi

Jackie Barzvi is a professional raqs sharqi (belly dance) performer and instructor. She recently created the first ever Mizrahi Dance Archive to highlight specific Jewish dances from the Middle East and North African regions. Jackie was also the IACT Israel Programs Coordinator at Northeastern University Hillel in Boston, and has led over a dozen organized trips to Israel. Jackie is passionate about helping others find their unique Jewish identity and creating environments where people can dance, connect, and build community. To learn more about her work, visit the archive at mizrahidancearchive.com.

Celebrate with us!

Hebrew College and Temple Reyim invite you to join us online on Sunday, December 5, 2021 from 3-4 p.m. to celebrate breaking ground for Hebrew College’s new home on a new shared campus in Newton, MA.

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Groundbreaking Ceremony: 3-4 p.m. (Livestreamed)

Hebrew College and Temple Reyim are excited to collaborate with several organizational partners and neighbors on a new shared campus, creating a vibrant hub for Jewish learning and life in the Auburndale neighborhood of Newton. Hebrew College will relocate to our new home in December 2022.

The vision for the collaborative builds on the strength of existing relationships with organizations that are currently located at Temple Reyim’s campus, including Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center, Kesher Newton, and Zamir Chorale of Boston. Hebrew College will bring several other dynamic pluralistic Boston-based Jewish organizations to the shared campus, including Jewish Arts Collaborative (JArts), the Jewish Women’s Archive, Keshet, and the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, to create an interdisciplinary hub of Jewish learning, spirituality, and innovation.

Due to COVID restrictions, we will have a small in-person gathering. We are excited to livestream the event to share with our community far and wide. Please RSVP to let us know you will join us!

How to Watch the Livestream

We will be livestreaming the Groundbreaking on YouTube on Dec. 5 at 3 p.m. Please use the link below.

>> LIVESTREAM LINK

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Hanukkah Experience:
4:15-5:00 p.m. (In person)

Following the Groundbreaking Ceremony, please join us outside Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington St. in Newton, to experience the Jewish Arts Collaborative (JArts) 2021 mobile art installation, “Brighter Revealed”. We are excited to celebrate our new campus, our shared campus partnerships (including JArts), and to deepen our partnership with JArts with this Hanukkah community experience.

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Tour Mayyim Hayyim Community Mikveh  (4:30 p.m.)

Tours of new campus partner Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center will be available to see the mikveh, education center and art gallery; learn how and why people immerse to celebrate moments of joy, heal after times of sorry or illness, or to commemorate transitions and changes. Vaccination verification and masks required.

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RSVP  

Please RSVP to receive the link for the Groundbreaking livestream.

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Parking for Hanukkah Experience and Mayyim Hayyim Tours

The outdoor Hanukkah “Brighter Revealed” experience will take place outside Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington St. in Newton, MA.

• There is limited parking in the Temple Reyim parking lot.
• There is parking available on nearby side streets, including Day Street and Aspen Avenue, within a 5-7 minute walk of Temple Reyim.
• There is parking available in the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Garage,  a 5- minute walk.
• There is parking available for $3 at the Woodland T Station, .3 miles (a 5-minute walk).
• There also will be limited accessible parking in front of the building.
• View Google directions

Join us for a morning with guest speaker Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, who will teach about the Ethiopian Jewish Holiday of Sigd and his experience immigrating from Ethiopia to Israel. The event will include discussion, learning activities, and the music of Sigd.

The Metrowest CultureFest co-sponsors include Hebrew College, Congregation Or Atid, Temple Beth Sholom, Temple Beth Am, and 2Life Communities.

About the Speaker

Rabbi Dr. Sharon Zaude Shalom immigrated alone to Israel from Ethiopia in 1982. A graduate visiting scholar from Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, PhD in Jewish philosophy from Bar-llan University. Head of the International Center for Study of  Ethiopian Jewry Jewish Studies Lecturer Faculty of Humanities Ono  Academic College. He serves as well as a rabbi of the “Kedoshei Yisrael” community in Kiryat Gat, a community of Holocaust survivors.

He received his ordination at  Har Etzion and serves as a member of  Beit Hillel and TZOHAR, an Orthodox Rabbinic organization. His M.A. thesis was on “Circumcision in the Beta Yisrael Community” and his Ph.D. thesis was on “Judaism of Fate? A Case Study on Theology of  the Ethiopian Jewish Community,” both completed at Bar-llan University. He has lectured  widely in many contexts on the following subjects: philosophy of halakha, Ethiopian Jewry, and the immigrant experience. He has published books, From Sinai To Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of Ethiopian Jewry including Shulchan Ha­ Orit (The Table of Light): a halachic guide for the Beta Israel Community. He also published the  book Conversation about Love and  Fear the Dialogue between the Rabbi’s Daughter and the Kes’s Son. At Brandeis University, he has worked to create a curriculum on Ethiopian Jewry, halakha, heritage and history, in collaboration with the “Village Way” of Yemin Orde, Professor Sharon Feiman Nemser, and Prof. Yehudah Mirsky. He currently resides in Kiryat Gat with his wife Avita and five children.

The Heidi Urich Annual Lecture on Jewish Genealogy

Join us for this year’s Heidi Urich Annual Lecture on Jewish Genealogy entitled  “Time Capsules Under the Rubble: The Ringelblum Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto” with Samuel Kassow. The lecture is co-sponsored by the jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston and Hebrew College.

About the program

During World War II, Jews resisted not only with guns but also with pen and paper. Even in the face of death they left “time capsules” full of documents they buried under the rubble of ghettos and death camps. They were determined that posterity would remember them on the basis of Jewish and not German sources. The Ringelblum archive in the Warsaw Ghetto buried thousands of documents. Of the 60 people who worked on this national mission, only three survived. Professor Kassow will describe life in the Warsaw Ghetto and how this brave group of Jews worked to defend Jewish honor and to show future generations that history actually matters.

About the speaker

Samuel Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, is a leading scholar of the Holocaust and has authored many studies on Russian and Jewish history. His ground-breaking book, Who Will Write Our History: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto, inspired the documentary film of the same name.  Professor Kassow was part of the scholarly team that planned the acclaimed POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He is currently engaged in a project organized by Yad Vashem to write a history of the Holocaust in Poland. Kassow holds a Ph.D from Princeton and has been a visiting professor at many universities including Harvard, Toronto and Dartmouth.

 

The Hebrew College chamber choir, Kol Arev, will perform a winter concert in Berenson Hall on December 13 from 1-2 p.m.

The concert will include selections from the upcoming February 11, 2022 “Building Bridges” concert in which Kol Arev will perform with the Zamir Chorale of Boston and Nashirah, the Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia as part of a lecture & concert event of the American Choral Directors Association, the national organization for choral directors and choruses. Works will include songs of love from around the world in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino.

Kol Arev, which includes  cantorial, rav-hazzan, as well as some rabbinical students, staff, and community members, performs at Hebrew College and in the Greater Boston and Providence communities throughout the academic year.