Posted in David Hartman, Education, Hartman Institute, North America, jerusalem, lectures, students, ירושלים, לימוד, tagged conservative, Education, jewish, orthodox, rabbis, reform on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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: Dilemmas in Post-Holocaust Theology
Morality in War
Where Do We Come From?
The Experience
6:00 [...]
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Posted in Diaspora, Hartman Institute, North America, torah, tagged conservative, Jewish-people, judaism, orthodox, rabbis, reform on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in David Hartman, North America, Videos, jewish, lectures, students, torah, tagged chabad, conservative, Halakha, jewish, Jewish-people, judaism, kollel, lakewood, lubavitch, orthodox, rabbis, racism, reform, torah on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Diaspora, Education, Hartman Institute, North America, Videos, israel, jerusalem, ירושלים, לימוד, tagged bible, Bill berk, conservative, Halakha, israel, jerusalem, jewish, jewish study, judaism, orthodox, rabbi, rabbis, reform, seminar, study, summer, summer 2009, torah, video on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Hartman Institute, North America, Videos, Zionism, israel, lectures, ירושלים, tagged conservative, Gaza, israel, jerusalem, orthodox, rabbis, reform on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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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Posted in Diaspora, Education, Hartman Institute, North America, israel, lectures, ירושלים, tagged conservative, Education, israel, orthodox, rabbis, reform on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 as [...]
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Posted in Education, Hartman Institute, North America, jewish, politics, tagged conservative, Democrat, McCain, Obama, politics, president, rabbis, reform, Republican on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 Rabbinic [...]
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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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