Gries, rabbi Louis Grossmann, rabbi and HUC professor Hugo Gryn, British rabbi and BBC radio broadcaster James G. Heller, rabbi and composer Maximilian Heller, rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, rabbi, lawyer, and former executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union for Progressive Judaism, North America Richard Jacobs (rabbi), rabbi, president of the Union for Reform Judaism Gilad Kariv, first Reform rabbi to be elected to the Israeli Knesset, Executive Director of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism Joseph Krauskopf, founder of the National Farm School (now Delaware Valley University). Elliot Kukla, came out as transgender six months before his ordination in 2006, and was the first openly transgender person to be ordained by HUC-JIR Ruth Langer, Professor of Theology at Boston College Emil W. Leipziger, rabbi Helen Levinthal, first American woman to complete the entire course of study in a rabbinical school Felix A. Levy, rabbi Jack P. Lewis, professor in Harding School of Theology (Enrollment in Hebrew Union College is open to non-Jews.) Judah Leon Magnes, rabbi, Chancellor/President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1925–1948 Jennie Mannheimer, speech and drama teacher, elocutionist Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, first Chinese-American rabbi in the world Martin A. Meyer, rabbi Julian Morgenstern, rabbi, HUC professor, and HUC president Morris Newfield, rabbi Sally Priesand, America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas Aaron D. Panken, 12th president of HUC-JIR, 2014–2018 Michael Robinson, rabbi and civil rights activist Jonathan Rosenbaum, scholar A. James Rudin, rabbi Norbert M. Samuelson, professor of Jewish philosophy at Arizona State University Julie Schwartz, who was ordained by HUC-JIR and later founded HUC-JIR's course of study in pastoral counseling for rabbinical students Seymour Schwartzman, opera singer and cantor Abram Simon, rabbi Alysa Stanton, world's first black female rabbi Lance J. Sussman, scholar Joseph Stolz, rabbi Amy Weiss, American Reform rabbi, and non-profit founder Louis Wolsey, rabbi Eric Yoffie, rabbi, president of the Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi Dr. Walter Zanger, tour guide and television personality Isaiah Zeldin (1920-2018) rabbi Reuben Zellman, first openly transgender person accepted to HUC-JIR in 2003; he was ordained by HUC-JIR in 2010 George Zepin (1878–1963), rabbi Martin Zielonka, rabbi See also List of Jewish universities and colleges in the United States Reform Judaism References External links Educational institutions established in 1875 Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities Jewish seminaries