It closed two years later, having produced no rabbis. Over the next several years Wise cultivated relationships with Reform Jews and congregations throughout the South and Midwest, and in 1873 called together a Union of American Hebrew Congregations to meet in Cleveland. This new UAHC s mission would be to raise the funds necessary to create the school of Wise s dreams. Two years later, in 1875, his dream came true. At its creation, HUC had two full time faculty members.
Today there are sixty, as well as an equal number of part-time instructors.
We have museums, the American Jewish Archives, the Centers for the Study of Ethics, the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education. We have libraries and research facilities that are unparalleled in North America. We offer programs for youths and adults throughout the year, including training courses for Para-Rabbinics in the summer. And we are adding on-line courses to our curriculum. Today Reform Judaism has grown to be the largest movement in American Judaism.