Donniel Hartman: Israeli Army commanders struggling with religious challenges

In a lecture this week to rabbis at Shalom Hartman Institute for the annual summertime Rabbinical Torah Study Seminar, Donniel Hartman mentioned that he had just finished a session with senior IDF commanders attending an ongoing program at Shalom Hartman Institute, the Lev Aharon program.
This program teaches Judaism, Jewish moral philosophy, and other related matters [...]

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David Hartman: Morality Confronts the Halakhic Tradition: Rethinking Traditional Perspectives on Wom

David Hartman, Lindenbaum-Pomrenze Lecture 2, 7-April-2008 – Jerusalem, Israel, Shalom Hartman Institute: Morality Confronts the Halakhic Tradition: Rethinking Traditional Perspectives on Women, Converts, and Non-Jews

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The Role of Religion in the Public Space in Israel and America

Annual Robert P. Kogod Lecture at Shalom Hartman Institute: William Galston, Ruth Gavison: Role of Religion in the Public Space, Israeli and American Perspectives. 30 June 2009 Jerusalem, Israel. Jewish, Public-private, constitutional separation of powers and more!

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Hartman Institute scholar in the news – Ariel Picard on ‘unorthodox’ marriage in Israel

Haaretz reports on a conference on Judaism at Israel’s far north Kfar Blum, in which Shalom Hartman Institute scholar Rabbi Dr. Ariel Picard, director of the Institute’s Be’eri program of Judaic studies for secular Israeli high schools,  offered an innovative way to break the deadlock for those Israelis who cannot marry under current rabbinical law [...]

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