HUC-JIR President Andrew Rehfeld on His First (Pandemic) Year
When Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's (HUC-JIR) Rabbi Aaron Panken died in a plane crash in 2018, the search committee to replace him suggested Andrew Rehfeld throw his hat into the ring. Rehfeld, 54, didn't take the request seriously. He's not a rabbi, and at the time he was the president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St.