Excerpt from the Annual Report of Abraham Geiger Kolleg, 2003
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We thank the School of Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam for the
friendly reception and good cooperation. We are proud to be able to
contribute to its academic work as an institute at the university. Our
heartfelt thanks go to the teaching and administrative staff and to the
colleagues in the board of directors for their commitment. They have been a
powerful driving force at the Abraham Geiger College in the past year.
Without Rabbi Uri Regev, director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism
(WUPJ) and its European regional chairman, Dr. Leo Hepner, and many others,
the Abraham Geiger College would not be where it is today. Our successes
would also not have been possible without broad financial support. We thank
the Federal Minister of the Interior, Dr. Otto Schily, for his encouraging
support since the foundation of the College and the "Stiftungsfonds Deutsche
Bank” in the "Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft” for the
endowment of a Chair for Rabbinical Studies, as well as for fellowships in
memory of Jewish members of its executive board in the pre-war period.
Thanks also go to the American Friends of the Union of Progressive Jews in
Germany,
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