First Rabbinic Leadership Alumni Retreat to be Held

For the first time in its history, Shalom Hartman Institute Rabbinic Leadership alumni will gather for an Alumni Study Retreat. The inaugural Rabbinic Leadership Institute Alumni Study Retreat will be held from January 23-26, 2011, at the Steven Breuer Conference Center in Malibu, California. Rabbinic Alumni of the first three RLI cohorts, representing nearly a [...]

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Hartman theology conference starts Sunday – participant list

A globally diverse group of distinguished Jewish, Chsristian and Muslim theologians is due in Jerusalem at the Hartman Institute annual theology conference on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. Outside participants (Hartman participants below) Nicholas Adams, University of Cambridge Sr. Therese Andrevon, Institut Superieur d’Etudes Ecumeniques, Paris Ahmed Al-‘Atari, Al-Quds University Paul Ballanfat, Galatasaray University, Istanbul Avriel [...]

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Hartman part of Sukkot holiday learning festival

Plan ahead: Shalom Hartman Institute is joining an impressive lineup of prominent Jerusalem and Jewish institutions in the first Gateways Festival of Jewish learning, taking place throughout Jerusalem on Sukkot, October 16 and 19. The rationale behind this event is to bring together all streams of Jews on Sukkot, the Feast of Ingathering, in Jerusalem [...]

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More on ‘Messiah Stone’ in Biblical Archaeology mag

Israel Knohl tells us his latest in-depth article about the “Messiah Stone” and its translation is available in the new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (It’s the cover article for you print types). What Israel tells us is also new is written confirmation by prominent archeological scholar Ada Yardeni, “premier expert of the script of that [...]

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‘Messiah stone’ a rock of ages for today, as well

Interest in the so-called “Messiah stone” and the innovative and provocative translation of it by Shalom Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl continues unabated. The Jerusalem Report now wades into the fray with a typically lengthy but thorough piece on the cover of its latest issue. The piece rambles on about the Dead Sea Scrolls [...]

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Israel Knohl: First Example of Tikkun Olam in Tanach

Watch this video of Israel Knohl, Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, author of the controversial, “The Messiah Before Jesus,” whose tranlsation of the “Messiah Stone” has caused a stir worldwide, talks here about the Jewish concept of tikkun olam – repairing the world, and where it first appeared in the Jewish Bible.

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‘Biblical stone’ reports of pre-Jesus Messiah rocket around world

Oh, the power of the New York Times combined with a provocative idea. The Times story quoting Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl‘s innovative commentary on the “biblical stone” and the idea that Jewish tradition and folklore had of the messiah whose death and resurrection three days later would redeem the people has spun around [...]

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