Notable Alumni
- Cody Bahir, scholar of Jewish and Chinese Mysticism
- Angela Warnick Buchdahl, Asian-American rabbi and cantor
- Abraham Cronbach
- Maurice Davis
- Ammiel Hirsch, rabbi, lawyer, and former executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union for Progressive Judaism, North America
- Jay Holstein, notable Professor from University of Iowa
- Elliot Kukla, who came out as transgender six months before his ordination in 2006, was the first transgender person to be ordained by HUC-JIR
- Ruth Langer
- Helen Levinthal, the first American woman to complete the entire course of study in a rabbinical school
- Sally Priesand, America's first female rabbi
- Jonathan Rosenbaum (scholar)
- A. James Rudin
- Norbert M. Samuelson, professor of Jewish philosophy at Arizona State University
- Seymour Schwartzman, opera singer and cantor
- Alysa Stanton, the world's first black female rabbi
- David Williams, director of the University of Georgia Honors Program
- Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism
- Cantor Charles Romalis, first and only Cantor of Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne, NJ (1965–present)
- Rabbi Julie Schwartz, who was ordained by HUC-JIR and later founded HUC-JIR’s course of study in pastoral counseling for rabbinical students
- Reuben Zellman, who became the first openly transgender person accepted to HUC-JIR in 2003; he was ordained by HUC-JIR in 2010
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