Dear Colleagues,This coming March the Mordecai Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood, together with the University of Chicago, will be putting on a Hallel V'zimra, a large scale conference centered on Jewish music and liturgy. Over the span of 4 days, including a Shabbaton on March 8th and 9th, followed by the conference itself on the 10th and 11...
Professional Development
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Great cantors never stop learning. There are always more skills to master, more questions to ask, more scholarship to digest, more melodies to sing! The ACC seeks to engage our members in the continual process of improving ourselves and our craft through a comprehensive program of professional development – and that program is centered here.
CLASSES AND SEMINARS
March 10, 2019: E - March 11, 2019: E
February 28, 2019: 1:00pm ET - 2:30pm E
Synagogue Management
In this web series, Diana Bloom will teach take-away, actionable processes and systems that can be implemented immediately to achieve higher productivity and efficiency in all areas of an organization and support a Totally Accountable Culture. These sessions will provide skills that can sharpen delegation, improve prioritization, enhance projec...
February 28, 2019: 9:30am ET
ACC NYC Regional MeetingDate: Thursday, February 28, 2019 | 23 Adar I 5779Time: 9:30am-1pmPlace: Temple Israel of the City of New York112 E 75th St, New York, NY 10021
Further registration details to come as we get closer in time. Thanks in advance to our colleague Cantor Irena Altshul for opening up her synagogue to us.
February 14, 2019: 1:00pm ET - 2:30pm E
Synagogue Management
In this web series, Diana Bloom will teach take-away, actionable processes and systems that can be implemented immediately to achieve higher productivity and efficiency in all areas of an organization and support a Totally Accountable Culture. These sessions will provide skills that can sharpen delegation, improve prioritization, enhance projec...
January 17, 2019: 1:00pm ET - 2:30pm E
Synagogue Management
In this web series, Diana Bloom will teach take-away, actionable processes and systems that can be implemented immediately to achieve higher productivity and efficiency in all areas of an organization and support a Totally Accountable Culture. These sessions will provide skills that can sharpen delegation, improve prioritization, enhanc...
January 16, 2019: E - January 17, 2019: E
Education
Clergy-Educator Day of Learning: Celebrating Our Duality
Wednesday, January 16 @ 2:00 pm - Thursday, January 17 @ 12 noon
Join with other clergy-educators for a day of learning that celebrates our dual roles, helps us to think about how we integrate these aspects of our work and challenges us to be forward thinking. There will be o...
Frustrated with how Hebrew is taught to children in your congregation? Looking for a new model, in which Hebrew learning is effective as well as fun and joyful for your students? Join Cantor Leigh Korn and Rabbi Nicki Greninger as they describe their partnership in developing a new approach to Hebrew education that has been working well in...
"In acts of genuine expression, what goes on between the soul of man and the word of prayer is more than an act of employment, of using words as if they were tools. Here the soul and the word react upon each other; the word is a creative force.Words are not made of paper.
Please visit this link to listen to the recording of this webinar.
Join current rabbinical, cantorial, and education students as Merri shares the latest interesting, accessible pieces for use in communal prayer with special emphasis on teaching technique and context within the worship service. In collaboration with HUC-JIR.
Cantor Beny Maissner is a master improviser and connoisseur of traditional chazzanut. His experience spans many generations and genres and his worship style is an eclectic mix of the traditional and the contemporary in a modern day Reform synagogue.
Professional Development Opportunity to Inspire and Engage
Please take the time to listen to the recording for the first opportunity in our partnership with the URJ Deptarment of Youth Engagement for UNPLUGGED with Alan Goodis featuring Dan Nichols.
Ma'alot Limmud: Professional Development Recognition
The ACC recognizes its members who engage in continuing study. You will get credit for what you are already doing by simply letting us know!
External Resources
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Grow Jewishly
Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Hebrew College – Online Master of Arts in Jewish Studies Program
The Davvenen' Leadership Training Institute
HUC-JIR AlumniLearn (not restricted to alumni of HUC-JIR)
HUC-JIR eLearning
HUC-JIR Symposium
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Grow Musically
The North American Jewish Choral Festival
Songleader Boot Camp
Hava Nashira
Westminster Choir College Conducting Institute
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Grow Pastorally
The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC)
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Grow Professionally
American Jewish University – Rabbinical Management Institute
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Grow Pedagogically
Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University – One Year MA in Jewish Education
Boston Hebrew College – Online MA in Jewish Education