Award-winning cooking instructor comes to HWS to serve up the many flavors of Jewish life around the world
On Wednesday, Oct. 14, author, food columnist, chef and award-winning cooking instructor Tina Wasserman brings her expertise to the Hobart and William Smith Colleges campus for a talk titled "A Culinary Exploration of the History and Lore of Jewish Cooking in the Diaspora."
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Students and members of the Geneva community are invited to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year 5770. The Jewish holiday marks the beginning of the 10-day observance of the High Holy Days according to the Hebrew calendar.
The Abbe Center for Jewish Life and HWS Hillel will host a festive meal at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18 at the Abbe Center located at 764 South Main Street. The holiday ... More >>
Thanks to the efforts of the Colleges' Hillel, women across the nation enjoyed beautiful flowers through Jewish Women International, Mother's Day Flower Project. Hillel donated $120 to the organization, which gives bouquets to deserving women in domestic violence shelters across the country.
"We were contacted by Jewish Women International last year, and we were successful at getting the word ou... More >>
Rabbi Sally Priesand, recipient of the 37th Elizabeth Blackwell Award, was recently featured in New Jersey Jewish News for having received the honor. Priesand is rabbi emeriti of Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls, N.J. and is a resident of Ocean Township, N.J.
The first female rabbi, Priesand was ordained in June 1972 at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.
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For students in Comparative Politics of the Middle East, political science is much more than theories and texts: it's a transatlantic interaction that will become an innovative multimedia tool. Under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Political Science Stacey Philbrick Yadav and with the support of a CTL Grant, these students have spent the semester working with Brooklyn-based filmmaker Adam H... More >>
To honor the millions who died in the Holocaust and to recognize those who survived its horrors, the Rochester's Jewish Community Center (RJCC) hosted Holocaust 2009: Community Commemoration on Monday, April 20, featuring two HWS panelists. At the event, speeches were given by Kara Miller '11 and keynote speaker Michael Dobkowski, professor of religious studies, as well as Sam Rind, a child surviv... More >>
Rabbi Sally J. Priesand, the first woman to be ordained a rabbi in the United States, will be honored as the 37th recipient of Hobart and William Smith Colleges' Elizabeth Blackwell Award in a ceremony on Thursday, April 23.
Priesand earned her status as a pioneer on June 3, 1972 when she was ordained by Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cinci... More >>
In Houghton House Gallery, the beauty slated for display is imported directly from Israel -- by way of a Hobart alum and HWS staff member. On Thursday, Feb. 26 from 7-9 p.m. there will be a reception for "The Beauty That Found Me There," a 20-photograph series that reflects the journey across Israel made by Communications Editor Joshua Unikel '07. Last July, Unikel went on a Taglit Birthright Outdoor Adventure Sea Trip that allowed him and 40 other ethnic Jews to travel across Israel for two wee... More >>
Cantor Richard Rosenfield of Temple Beth-El, of which all Jewish students at HWS are members, and his wife Lise, were featured in an article in the Finger Lakes Times about their life together and the path that has led them to be leaders of Geneva's Jewish community.
Both Rosenfields grew up not practicing Judaism. "Although that's his heritage, he was not particularly observant, and Lise was rais... More >>
The home as a whole plays a central role in Jewish family and culture. The same is true for Judaism at Hobart and William Smith and has become even clearer with the recent dedication of the Wasserman Garden of Quiet Repose next to the Abbe Center for Jewish Life on South Main Street.
"Just a few short months ago, the Colleges had the very good fortune of cutting the ribbon on the Wasserman Koshe... More >>
