Join us for Hebrew College Adult Learning next travel-learning experience: A Civil Rights Journey through the American South November 10-12, 2024. The trip will be led by Hebrew College and Etgar 36.
Etgar 36 uses the Civil Rights narrative as a way to provide participants with the tools and inspiration to take the next step beyond social action: social activism. Our Civil Rights journey uses the history, sites, and current issues as a springboard to highlight the relationship, and at times, the tension, of the Jewish and American identity. The journeys are a mix of fun, sightseeing, education, and meetings with organizations and people who have been and are still involved in creating America.
Participants will learn about the struggles of African Americans to gain equality in the 1950s & 60s as well as discover how Jews were involved in the Civil Rights struggle. Participants will walk away understanding why Jews, as people who have known oppression, must care and act when others are oppressed. Our journey includes stops in Atlanta, Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham.
An Educational Travel Experience with Hebrew College Tamid
Where: Prague, Vienna, Budapest When: May 5 – 15, 2025 Hebrew College Instructor: Rabbi Leonard Gordon
Keshet Educational Tour Educator: Danny Ehrlich Learn more:Fill out this interest form Contact:Email a member of our Tamid team with any questions Trip Sponsors: Hebrew College Tamid & Keshet Educational Tours
Together, we will explore and trace the story of Ashkenazi Jewry, using the major centers of Prague, Vienna (pictured above) and Budapest to remember and learn about the past and to better understand the complex nature of our own contemporary Jewish identity, belief and practice.
Central Europe was the cradle and center of Ashkenazi Jewish civilization until the 13th and 14th centuries. In the wake of the Crusades, the Black Plague and unrelenting Christian persecution, expulsions and massacres, the center of European Jewish life and creativity shifted eastward to Poland. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, as Jews grappled with the new challenges presented by emancipation and freedom, the German speaking Jewish communities evolved new models of Jewish living, laying the groundwork for the development of the Reform, Conservative and Modern Orthodox movements. The Nazis and their allies destroyed the Jewish communities of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, but their legacies are still alive and relevant in contemporary Jewish life.
Pre-trip course with Rabbi Leonard Gordon. Registration for this Spring course will be open in December. All those who have expressed interest in the trip will receive a direct invite to attend this course.’
Have you thought about becoming a rabbi? Join us for Ta Sh’ma (Come & Hear) to experience the vibrant pluralistic communities of Hebrew College’s pioneering rabbinical program. We hope you’ll take this opportunity to learn, pray and grow with our students and faculty.
IN PERSON
Monday, November 18 (special programming) with an option to stay Tuesday, November 19 for regular classes.
ONLINE Sunday, December 8, from 2-5 p.m.
Learn with Hebrew College faculty, including Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld; Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD; Rabbi Daniel Klein, Dr. Devora Steinmetz; Rav Rachel Adelman; Rabbi Nehemia Polen, PhD; Rabbi Dan Judson, PhD; Rabbi Or Rose; and Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer.
Join with current students for an inspiring day of learning, conversation, music and prayer.
Enjoy plenty of breaks and opportunities for small group conversations.
If you would like to attend in person but can’t make it on Nov. 18, please be in touch to find other ways to connect with our community
Contact Us
Please contact Rabbi Gita Karasov, Dean of Students & Admissions, if you have questions at gkarasov@hebrewcollege.edu.
Meet Our Students & Alumni
Our students share their perspectives on Hebrew College’s learning community!
We are excited to provide a significant opportunity for incoming ordination students to enhance their Hebrew language skills by studying at Middlebury Language Schools. This collaboration allows new rabbinical students to access an unparalleled immersive learning experience during the summer before they begin their studies in Newton. Learn more
When we asked our rabbinical alumni to describe their rabbinates, their responses were a reminder of the breadth and depth of rabbinic work—and how they each have taken their Hebrew College education out into the world to create a rabbinate that reflects their unique passions and gifts. Across the board, their descriptions reflect deep creativity, commitment, love of Torah, social action, and innovative spiritual and prayer leadership.
The Hebrew College Kavanah in 60 digital platform is a place for rabbinical and cantorial students to share “short teachings” (~60 seconds) coinciding with Jewish and secular holidays. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for notifications about future videos.
Hebrew College Seventy Faces of Torah Blog
Read Torah commentary by our rabbinical students.
Risa Dunbar: “(Re)Arranging A World of Chesed” Parashat Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38)
Matthew Schultz: “The Lost Torah of Korach” Parashat Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)
Learning in “hevrutot” [pairs] is a hallmark of Hebrew College. Meet three pairs of Hebrew College alumni, who work together as spiritual leaders of their respective synagogues, and have extended that model to their professional lives.
The bold and multifaceted richness of Sephardic life is reflected in Hebrew College’s fall art exhibit, “Silvina Mizrahi: A Sephardic Spirit”, curated by Hebrew College Trustee Deb Feinstein, who spearheads the Hebrew College Arts Initiative. Read more about the exhibit here. (Pictured: “Prayer in Blue” 40×30, mixed media.)
Mizrahi’s original artwork will be available for purchase during the fall exhibit! Through a generous arrangement with the artist, a portion of the proceeds will support the arts at Hebrew College.
Silvina Mizrahi is a painter, sculptor, dancer, teacher, and theater performer from Argentina, Israel, and Boston whose work focuses on building bridges, her love of life, and her ancestral past. She brings joy, talent, and the Sephardic spirit to each of her fields of art.
Mizrahi’s art explodes over the surface with her multi-media collages, strong acrylic colors, and bold brushstrokes. Many of her works show bits of puzzles, shining sequins, gemstones intermixed with dancing figures, bright colored shadows of the human form, and the blazing light of the sun. The viewer is transported to another world — harmonizing light, nature, and movement. As an accomplished dancer and choreographer, her figures literally leap across the surface.
While living in Israel, Mizrahi was selected for two solo exhibitions, in the Jerusalem Municipal Gallery and the Jerusalem Center for performing Arts. In addition, she was awarded with the Israel National Fellowship for New Immigrants.
At the opening event, the more than 100 guests were treated to a tango performance. Read about the dancers below.
Erica Skye Roper: Argentine Tango Instructor
Erica’s first memory is learning folk dances with her grandparents. She began performing folk dances at ten and began learning Argentine Tango at Amherst College at nineteen. Erica played at the edges of Contact improv and tango fusion for more than fifteen years and began teaching dance in 2007. She has expanded her offerings over the years to include Intuitive Tango, Tango Fusion, ConTango Fusion, Salsa Rueda, and Taking-Back-Boundaries workshops. She brings a devotion to life long learning through a continuing study of dance and movement as well as the desire to strengthen and build community into the center of all of her teaching.
Scott fell in love with the challenge of learning tango in 2002. Before that he had been a wrestler all through middle and high school which helps him to bring a deep knowledge of body awareness and movement into his dance form. After learning and dancing tango all across the US and abroad, he moved to Buenos Aires in 2015 where he danced with Porteños and learned directly from the great Milongueros. He has been teaching private lessons and group classes throughout New Hampshire since 2012. For him, tango is a wonderful journey of personal growth focused on connection, presence, grounding, empathy, and awareness.
Bishviley Ha-Ivrit: A Springboard for Hebrew Language Proficiency Development
Join us August 4-8, 2024 for CET’s intensive Hebrew language summer seminar. The 36-hour in-person seminar will take place at Hebrew College, and is open to all Hebrew teachers. Participants must be fluent in Hebrew since the seminar is run in Hebrew, using professional academic terms.
Hebrew College is the North American home for the CET (Center for Educational Technology) program, a dynamic Hebrew language professional development curriculum designed for teachers of students in grades seven through 12.
Seminar Highlights
Implementing cutting-edge pedagogical principles for teaching Hebrew as an additional language.
Deepening meaningful language instruction across the four skills
Integrating AI tools seamlessly with the curriculum.
Systematic and scaffolded lesson planning.
Strategies and tools for continuous linguistic proficiency development.
Assessment for mapping and advancing learning.
Schedule Aug. 4 — 1:00-7:00 p.m.
Aug. 5-7 — 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Aug. 8 — 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
About CET: Innovative Learning in a Changing World CET is committed to promoting diversity and achieving breakthroughs in education that serves to create harmony between pedagogy, learning skills and technological content. Hebrew College and CET have been partners for over 12 years in the pursuit of the advancement of Jewish education primarily in the advancement of Hebrew language proficiency around the world. Learn more on the CET website.
How the Bible, Talmud, Kabbalah, and Hasidism open our eyes to the wondrous nature of the cosmos and our role within it.
Please join us for Hebrew College Virtual Early Morning Drop-In Study with Rabbi Nehemia Polen, PhD, Hebrew College Professor of Jewish Thought. Generously sponsored by Susan Miron.
When: 7:30 a.m. on Monday, June 17, 2024 What: 30-minute talk followed by Q&A Where: Zoom Cost: Free Instructor: Rabbi Nehemia Polen, PhD
A miracle need not be as dramatic as the splitting of the Sea of Reeds in the book of Exodus to reveal the hidden grace and beauty that surround us. The practice of blessing is but one way Judaism attempts to break routine, reverse expectations, and remind us that every word spoken in friendship and kindness, every smile, every breathtaking vista, is precious and holy. If we look and listen, the hints of transcendence and the whispers of sacredness are always available to sustain and inspire us.
Rabbi Nehemia Polen, PhD
Nehemia Polen is a leading expert in Hasidism and Jewish thought. A widely published author, his books include The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto; a translation of Malkah Shapiro’s The Rebbe’s Daughter: Memoir of a Hasidic Childhood, a project that originated in Polen’s research as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and recipient of a National Jewish Book Award; Filling Words With Light: Hasidic and Mystical Reflections on Jewish Prayer; and From Tiberias, With Love: A Collection of Tiberian Hasidism, Volume I: Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk. His most recent book, Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens (Maggid 2022), was named a finalist for the 72nd Jewish Book Council’s Myra H. Kraft memorial Award for Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice. In 2024, he received Hadar’s Ateret Tzvi essay award second prize.
Becca Heisler, Chaim Spaulding, and David Mafouda: Founding the Student Shul Lunch Coop
Read Torah commentary by our rabbinical students.
Hevrutot
Rabbinical Internships
Rabbinical Internships
Exhibit: September 15—December 20, 2024
Silvina Mizrahi