Holy Living in Human Bodies: 2010 Edward Bronfman Family Foundation Annual Lecture

Holy Living in Human Bodies: 2010 Edward Bronfman Family Foundation Annual Lecture at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. Part of the 2010 International Theology Conference, January 2010. Speakers were Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed, Shalom Hartman Institute, Prof. Rusmir Mahmutehaji, University of Sarajevo, President, International Forum Bosnia, and Rev. David M. Neuhaus, SJ, Vicar for the Hebrew [...]

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Holy Living in Human Bodies: Hartman Institute Conference

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians from across the globe will be addressing the topic, “Holy Living in Human Bodies” in seminars and study sessions in which they will use classic and contemporary texts from all three faiths.

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Public invited to Hartman Institute lecture: ‘Holy Living in Human Bodies,’ February 16, 2010

The Shalom Hartman Institute is pleased to invite the public to attend The Edward Bronfman Family Foundation Annual Lecture on Religious Pluralism, “Holy Living in Human Bodies,” Tuesday, February 16, 2010, at 20:00 (8 PM). Speakers are Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed, Shalom Hartman Institute, Prof. Rusmir Mahmutćehajić, University of Sarajevo, President, International Forum Bosnia, and Rev. David [...]

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LimmudLA – good story about it – and Hartman Institute will be there

The Jewish Journal of LA has a cute story about the eclecticity (is that a word?) you are likely to find if you attend LimmudLA Jewish learning festival in February. Several Hartman Institute scholars, likely Rabbi Dr. Ariel Picard and Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed, two of our best, are set to be there.

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Kisufim a great literary conference in Jerusalem next month; Hartman scholars participating

Kisufim: The Jerusalem Conference of Jewish Writers and Poets, an annual literary conference in Jerusalem, is getting under way in two weeks. Several Hartman Institute scholars are participating. Senior Fellow Menachem Lorberbaum is hosting a session on poet Paul Celan, and participating in a video-enhanced seminar with Cynthia Ozick and others with the title of [...]

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Say hi to Hartman Institute at the UJC General Assembly in Washington, Nov. 8-10, 2009

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

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 [...]

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Comments on the news of the day: Jewish peoplehood, for one thing

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: [...]

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‘The Marker’ features Shalom Hartman Institute in piece on economic crisis

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 [...]

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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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