Hartman Institute creates rabbinic students seminar in Jerusalem for 2009-10

Come and study in Jerusalem at the Shalom Hartman Institute with your fellow rabbinic students from other movements in an open and supportive atmosphere. Faculty David Hartman Melila Hellner-Eshed Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi Rut Kaniel Kara-Ivanov Israel Knohl Micah Goodman Topics Reading the Zohar The Soul of the Sinner: From Chet to Geulah God After Auschwitz: [...]

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Hartman ‘represented’ on Newsweek top rabbis, synagogues list

The value and virtues of Top 10, 25 or 50 lists are endlessly debatable. But what is indisputable is that they start discussions – and disputes. The publication this week of the new “Top 50 (U.S.) Rabbis” compiled by Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman & CEO Michael Lynton, News Corporation Executive Vice President Gary Ginsberg and [...]

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David Hartman: The rise of religious extremism

David Hartman talks about how Jewish religious extremism, and even “mainstream” Orthodoxy have grown in modern times as more modern, rational movements have struggled.

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Invitation to Summer 2009 Rabbinic Study Seminar at Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

Rabbi Bill Berk, Director, Center for Rabbinic Enrichment, invites rabbis the world over to attend the Summer 2009 Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

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Shalom From Jerusalem: Rabbi Morley T. Feinstein

“Shalom From Jerusalem”: Rabbi Morley T. Feinstein, University Synagogue, Los Angeles, CA, talks about his week-long residency at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, as part of the Rabbinic Leadership Initiative.

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Bruchim haba’im, Rabbinic Leadership Initiative participants

Nearly the full complement of rabbis participating in the Hartman Institute’s current Rabbinic Leadership Initiative program is due to arrive in Jerusalem today for their winter retreat and week of study. With an overall theme of prayer, and lectures as diverse as “Hannah and Moses: Two Models of Prayer,” and “Poetry in Prayer,” as well [...]

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Hartman Rabbinic Leadership Initiative member cited as key influencer in presidential race

This came in a few days ago – OK, we were out for Sukkot: Haaretz reports that American rabbis are coming out publicly for the two U.S. presidential candidates in record numbers this year – the early ones for Barack Obama, with a Rabbis for McCain coming soon, as well. One of the Hartman Institute’s [...]

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Hartman scholars emphasize inclusiveness in conversion

Conversion to Judaism is a hot topic both in Israel and elsewhere. The recent firing of Rabbi Chaim Druckman, head of the conversion courts, has amplified the volume. Prominent U.S. Jewish newspaper editor Gary Rosenblatt featured Jerusalem Rabbi Benny Lau as a reluctant crusader against the increasingly haredi rabbinic establishment in Israel who was energized [...]

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