Shalom Hartman Institute will be at the United Jewish Communities (soon to be Jewish Federations of North America) annual General Assembly from November 8-10, 2009, in Washington, D.C. (Booth 311). First, and foremost, I invite you to stop by for a chat. I plan to have some goodies from Israel with me to entice people [...]
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Hartman Institute scholars, ideas, friends in the news
Posted in David Hartman, Diaspora, Donniel Hartman, Hartman Institute, North America, israel, lectures, students, torah, לימוד, tagged angel, ethical, Gaza, Goldstone, jewish, lecture, New York, philosophy, Rambam, sephardim, war on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A student who attended the Religion and the Challenge of Modernity conference at Grand Valley State University in Michigan earlier this month had this to say about Donniel Hartman’s presentation there:
Donniel Hartman, the first lecturer of the day at this conference, did a very good job not only presenting his thoughts, but introducing a theme [...]
Comments on the news of the day: Jewish peoplehood, for one thing
Posted in History, Holidays/Festivals, holidays, israel, tagged Education, History, israel, jewish, Jewish-people, nation, people, peoplehood, sinai on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A controversial new book, The Invention of the Jewish People, by Tel Aviv University historian Shlomo Sand, is now in English, after kicking up a dust storm of controversy in its original Hebrew incarnation. This is a summary of the book’s thesis, as explained in a recent review on Tablet, an online Jewish cultural magazine:
Sand… [...]
‘The Marker’ features Shalom Hartman Institute in piece on economic crisis
Posted in Donniel Hartman, Hartman Institute, North America, torah, ירושלים, לימוד, tagged business, center, crisis, economic crisis, economy, jewish, North America, rabbis, recession, spiritual on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Marker, Israel’s leading Business newspaper, profiled the Shalom Hartman Institute in an article about a recent survey (Summer 2009) of North American rabbis at the Institute for the Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar and the Rabbinic Leadership Initiative programs about the economic crisis, and how the financial scandals of Jewish financier Bernie Madoff may help [...]
Hartman Institute creates rabbinic students seminar in Jerusalem for 2009-10
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.
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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
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Here’s why Hartman Institute’s Be’eri program is so important:.Israelis’ low knowledge of Judaism
Posted in Education, Videos, israel, jewish, students, torah, לימוד, ספרים, tagged dati, Education, high school, hiloni, israel, jewish, judaism, reform, religion, religious, secular, students on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new survey reported here has found that the current generation of Israelis has a weak – to be charitable – knowledge of Judaism. According to the article:
The survey revealed that 80% of secular Israelis and 59% of Israelis overall define their level of Judaic knowledge and Jewish heritage as mediocre [...]
Israel and North American Jews – Do we need each other? Do we understand each other?
Posted in Diaspora, Donniel Hartman, North America, Videos, Zionism, israel, jewish, tagged israel, jewish, Jewish-people, video on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic Monthly interviewed Michael Oren, a New York state native who is now Israel’s ambassador to the United States in Aspen, CO, recently. In the interview (click here to see the entire interview on video; click here to read the Israel-Diaspora relations segment edited down for you), Oren discusses the need [...]
Hartman Institute scholar in the news – Ariel Picard on ‘unorthodox’ marriage in Israel
Posted in Halakha, israel, politics, tagged Education, jewish, judaism, marriage, Noah, Noahide, orthodox, rabbis on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Heated commentary on Donniel Hartman ‘blog’ about Obama’s Cairo speech
Posted in Donniel Hartman, North America, israel, jewish, politics, tagged hamas, israel, jewish, Jewish-people, Obama, Palestinian, president, war on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama’s speech in Cairo occurred more than a week ago, and Donniel Hartman’s commentary on the speech (“Are Jews Ready for Obama?“) also has been online for more than a week, but the debate – about the speech, and about Donniel’s commentary has yet to die down.
Several dozen comments have been published (and a [...]
Charles Krauthammer: David Hartman & Maimonides ‘big influence on me’
Posted in David Hartman, Diaspora, North America, israel, לימוד, tagged Education, jewish, judaism, orthodox, philosophy on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Krauthammer – you know him as the acerbic, neoconservative, pro-Israel columnist for the Washington Post and other newspapers – has another side. According to this interview in the Jerusalem Post, he and his wife have “started to try to revive and preserve Jewish music that has been lost to the masses” with a program [...]
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