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Aaron Panken
Rabbi Aaron Panken. (Hebrew Union College)
January 17, 2019, 6:52 pm
Reform seminary names professorships for head who died in plane crash
Rabbi Aaron Panken led the four-campus Hebrew Union College from 2014 until his death last year
By Marcy Oster
Andrew Rehfeld will serve as HUC’s 13th president. (Courtesy of HUC via JTA)
December 19, 2018, 1:05 am
In a first, Reform rabbinical school won’t be led by a rabbi
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion appoints Andrew Rehfeld, a political science professor, as its 13th president
By Josefin Dolsten
Anat Hoffman
June 4, 2018, 3:29 pm
Anat Hoffman
Saying goodbye with dignity — in Scarsdale, NY
Laying Rabbi Aaron Panken to rest was sad and comforting; it also drove home what’s missing at Israeli funerals
Rabbi David Ellenson is serving as HUC interim president. (Courtesy of HUC via JTA)
May 15, 2018, 10:11 am
Hebrew Union College appoints Rabbi David Ellenson as interim president
Scholar will head Reform movement campuses in New York, Jerusalem, Cincinnati and Los Angeles following plane crash death of predecessor Panken
By JTA
Rabbi Aaron Panken teaching a Talmud Class to Hebrew Union College students. (Courtesy of HUC via JTA)
May 8, 2018, 4:27 am
Rabbi Aaron Panken remembered as leader who embodied ‘best of Reform movement’
Friends and colleagues of HUC president killed in plane crash say he was joyful in his work, passionate about Israel
By Josefin Dolsten
Rabbi Aaron Panken (Hebrew Union College)
May 6, 2018, 5:59 am
Rabbi Aaron Panken, Hebrew Union College president, killed in plane crash at 53
Reform Jewish leader, who has helmed the movement’s flagship seminary since 2014, was a licensed commercial pilot
By JTA
Rabbi Aaron Panken, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (left) and Tad Taube, founder and chairman of Taube Philanthropies, celebrate the groundbreaking at the newly named Taube Family Campus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on June 29, 2016. (Avi Hayun)
July 13, 2016, 8:16 pm
For US philanthropist, keeping Israelis Jewish means boosting Reform Jewry
His $15 million donation to upgrade the Reform Movement’s flagship campus in Jerusalem may look like a statement, but Tad Taube says he’s not out to spark a religious war
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
From left: Sean Taube, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, Taube Philanthropies founder and chairman Tad Taube, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, and Taube Philanthropies executive director Shana Penn celebrate as The Taube Family Campus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is named in Jerusalem, June 29, 2016. (Avi Hayun)
June 29, 2016, 11:38 pm
Hebrew Union College saluted as ‘beacon of tolerance’ at Jerusalem campus groundbreaking
Renovation of the Israeli headquarters for Reform Jewry funded by a $15 million grant from Taube Philanthropies
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi Rick Jacobs at his 2012 installation as head of the Reform movement. (photo credit: Clark Jones, Courtesy the Union for Reform Judaism)
November 3, 2015, 4:09 am
9 things to know about Reform Jews
Ahead of Wednesday’s biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism, some facts about America’s largest Jewish religious denomination
By Uriel Heilman
The frequency of interfaith weddings has convinced even many Orthodox Jews to revise their approach to couples of mixed background. (Illustrative photo courtesy of Ashley Novack/JTA)
August 8, 2013, 10:37 pm
The war over intermarriage has been lost. Now what?
Across the spectrum of observance, Jewish leaders are embracing rather than shunning Jews and their gentile partners
By Uriel Heilman
The Hebrew Union College campus in Jerusalem (CC BY-SA 3.0, by Deror avi, Wikimedia Commons)
August 8, 2013, 12:12 am
Eyeing the horizon, pilot steers Reform rabbinical school
Aaron Panken follows in footsteps of Rabbi Rick Jacobs, aiming to draw people to Judaism ‘in a modern American context’
By Uriel Heilman
Rabbi Aaron Panken (photo credit: JTA/Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)
August 1, 2013, 6:22 am
Hebrew Union College names Aaron Panken president
Longtime teacher succeeds Rabbi David Ellenson at the helm of the Reform movement’s rabbinical school
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