[Sh'liach K'hilah] internet course

[cellio]

HUC is offering two short internet courses to folks in the Sh'liach K'hilah program. I signed up for the one on the prophets, partly because the rabbi is an excellent teacher and partly because this is one of the truck-sized gaps in my knowledge. :-) (I gave the one on Zionism a pass.)

"Five Prophetic Visions"

The Prophets of the Hebrew Bible are fascinating, complicated people. Each was a messenger of God's word and filtered divine will through his or her own experience. The stories of their lives and visions have been studied for centuries and the messages of social justice that they preached millennia ago are as valid today as they were when they were first spoken.

In this six-week course we will study five prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos and Micah. We will examine each in his own context and through an examination of his own words.

Bio:
David Komerofsky is originally from Akron, Ohio. He earned a BA with High Honors in History (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Cincinnati in 1993, and studied at the Jerusalem, Los Angeles and Cincinnati campuses of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). His MAHL is from the Los Angeles campus (1997), and his ordination is from the Cincinnati campus (1999). He is currently pursuing a DHL in Rabbinic Literature.

Since his ordination, Rabbi Komerofsky has been a member of the administration of HUC-JIR. He was Associate Dean of Students in Cincinnati from 1999 to 2002, and is currently the Dean of Students and Director of the Rabbinical School. He has been a member of the faculty of the Melton Adult Mini-Schools in Dayton and Cincinnati, teaching courses in Jewish history, and was for four years the instructor for the Cincinnati-wide "Introduction to Judaism" course offered through the Union for Reform Judaism.

At HUC-JIR Rabbi Komerofsky is responsible for overseeing the curriculum of the rabbinical school, student pulpits, senior placement and academic advising.

David Komerofsky is married to Rachel Stern Komerofsky, HUC-JIR's Director of Outreach Education and a graduate of its Joint Masters Program in Jewish Education and Jewish Communal Service. They are the proud and often tired parents of almost five-year-old twins.

By the way, in the end I decided against going to the weekend session in LA in February. Some other time, perhaps. (I'm kind of hoping the next one is in New York or Cincinnati.)

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Awwww. We'll miss meeting you.

[cellio]

Sorry about that. I was looking forward to meeting you folks too, but the logistics just didn't work out this time. :-(

[goljerp]

I'm hoping NY, although given the way my schedule's working, Joy's schedule, and the amount of stuff they pack into these sessions, we might not get to meet, let alone spend some time hanging out...

[cellio]

On the other hand, if the conventional scheduling is really Friday lunch through Sunday lunch, there's a lot more wiggle room when I don't have to fly across the country. I assume that it's generally possible to fly from NYC to Pittsburgh on a Sunday evening, which would leave Sunday afternoon at least. (For that trip I'd probably fly in Friday morning, not Thursday night, unless I had crash space somewhere. No sence paying for an NYC hotel room if I don't need to be there in the morning.)

[goljerp]

For that trip I'd probably fly in Friday morning, not Thursday night, unless I had crash space somewhere. No sence paying for an NYC hotel room if I don't need to be there in the morning.

Very sensible. Actually, there is cheap -- although spartan -- accomodiations in NY: look at International house (they have dorm-style rooms for about $50 a night.) Or you could always try lowballing priceline and see what they come up with... you never know. (Last spring, Joy and I got $45 a night in the center of Philly - the hotel in the former city hall annex)

And who knows? Joy and I might even have a place by then with space... although at the rate things are going in our housing search, that seems less likely than getting a good rate from priceline :-(