CCAR News - May 2008 - (Page 7) CONVENTION MEMORIES I am in awe of my colleagues—those who organized, those who taught, those who sang, those who learned, those who laughed, those who hugged—all who made this convention so memorable, so welcoming, so much fun. Most remarkable to me was the fact that we gathered at three locations outside the hotel, and it was done so smoothly and in a way that made sense to be at each place (Plum Street Temple, HUC-JIR, and the Freedom Center) and not some random off-site location. Particularly at the Freedom Center, the use of the museum setting to enhance the learning was a brilliant, creative combination of content and context. Todah rabbah to all! — Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, N 1979 n the mid-1960s, the American Jewish Archives was a special place. Sarah Grossman, ,ז״לthought she was whispering, but her booming voice would carry over the room dividers into the reading room. If you just sat there, you could learn just about all the gossip of the College-Institute and the Cincinnati Jewish community. The remodeled Archives is gorgeous, functional and elegant; it is really a major improvement on the old one. But staff people talk like it is a library. I suppose you can learn an awful lot from your Blackberry, cell phone and I-Pod, but, when I sat in the reading room during the recent CCAR convention, I missed the guffaws of fellow students when a new tidbit of “secret” information wafted over the walls and into the public domain. I could not but hope that some of the old wine will find its way into this new bottle. — Kenneth Roseman, C 1966 found the convention incredibly moving, and downright historic. For me, the highlight was the juxtaposition between the return of so many to HUC-JIR in Cincinnati and the inauguration of Mishkan T’filah. The celebration of the ordination of Sally and the first women as rabbis echoed through Plum Street as Elyse, Elaine and others who created Mishkan T’filah brought us into a whole new liturgical era. It felt like the past was alive, and the future bright. — Jonah Pesner, N 1997 I I 7
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