Rabbi Min Kantrowitz, '04, Director of the Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program of Jewish Family Service of New Mexico was one of two invited presenters at the Eighteenth Annual Interfaith Spring Colloquium held on March 1^st. The day-long, state-wide event is sponsored by the Jewish-Catholic Dialogue of New Mexico. The focus of this year's conference focus was "An Exegesis of The Book of Job."

Marvin A. Sweeney, PhD, AJRCA Professor of Tanakh and Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology, recently attended the Symposium on the Book of the Twelve Prophets held January 14-16, 2011 at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet in Muenster, Germany.  The conference, organized by Prof. Dr. Rainer Albertz (Muenster), Dr. Jacob Woehrle (Muenster), and Prof. Dr. James Nogalski (Baylor), included most of the major European and North American scholars working in the field of Book of the Twelve studies today.  Dr. Sweeney's paper, "Synchronic and Diachronic Concerns in Reading the Book of the Twelve Prophets," built upon his prior commentary on the Book of the Twelve (The Twelve Prophets [Berit Olam; Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2000]) to examine the differing forms of the Book of the Twelve Prophets in the Hebrew Masoretic and the Greek Septuagint traditions as a basis for redaction-critical study of the book.  While in Muenster, he also attended Shabbat services at the Juedische Kultusgemeinde and gave an impromptu talk at the Kiddush concerning his participation in the conference and his earlier work in the Soviet Jewry movement.

The article, "Jerome H. Bayer: Music and the California Menorah Society," by Cantor Jonathan L. Friedmann, '11 was published in the Western States Jewish History Journal (vol. 43, no. 2). Cantor Friedmann serves as the Cantor of Bet Knesset Bamidbar, a Reform congregation and Valley Outreach Synagogue - P'nai Tikvah, a Reconstructionist congregation, both in Las Vegas, NV.   

The poem, "Ba-Midbar" by Rabbi Diane Elliot, '06 was honored with the third place prize in Women in Judaism's 2010 First Annual Writing Competition.  The poem appears, along with all other winning entries in the categories of short fiction, poetry, and essays, in Women in Judaism's Winter 2010 issue Vol. 7:2.  WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL is an academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism, by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms. Cross-methodological and interdisciplinary, the journal does not promote a fixed ideology, and welcomes a variety of approaches.

The article, "What Is the Meaning Of "Good"?:The Prophet's Wife prompts discussion of action, intent, and the challenges of an unfinished novel," by AJRCA third year Rabbinic student, Beth Lieberman, appeared in Behrman House's Open Lion newsletter (February 2011 issue). Behrman House is one of the nation's leading publishers of Jewish books. Beth's article focused on the January 9^th AJRCA program on The Prophet's Wife which featured a discussion with Rabbi Naomi Levy and AJRCA Professor of Talmud Rabbi Daniel Bouskila. Beth is an industry-prominent editor who has acquired, edited and managed more than 500 published books.

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