Hartman Fellow Noam Zion in San Francisco, 14 March 2010, on Pesach

He will be at Temple Emanu-El in the evening. Here is the title of his talk: “The Art, Psychology and Politics of the Four Children.” Click here for details. The synagogue’s website says registration is full. But maybe, if you tell them you read about the event on the Hartman Institute blog they will squeeze [...]

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Pesach’s over – did you enjoy it?

OK, Pesach is over for us here in Israel; it’s still happening if you keep to the second day of chag in ch”ool (chootz la’aretz – outside “the land,” i.e., Israel). So, this is still relevant – if only as something to think about for next year – the Shalom Hartman Institute’s A Different Night: [...]

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Pesach is (almost) here: Time to read up on it from a different view

So, have you cleaned your house yet? Scrubbed the oven? If you have, then take a few moments to read up on the deeper meaning of Pesach – and to ponder a few additional questions beyond the hoary four you ask every year by looking at the Hartman Institute special section on Pesach now on [...]

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Pesach video preview – for blog readers only

Avid readers of our blog have already received a preview of this year’s Pesach video by Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman. It went up yesterday when we posted it online, even though it is not yet being promoted on the main Hartman Institute website. You can also see a Pesach video recorded last year by Rabbi [...]

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Hartman Institute documents exclusively on Scribd

What’s that? In a word, Scribd is YouTube for documents. That’s actually three words (four if you don’t consider You Tube to be two words). So far, we have posted a great deal of fascinating material on our Scribd channel, including:

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Israeli education needs Jewish kick in pants

Well, Rabbi Dr. Ariel Picard, director of Shalom Hartman Institute’s Center for Education, wouldn’t say it quite that way. In fact, he said it far more eloquently in his recent posting on the Institute’s website: Here in Israel we are privileged to have the Jewish language as the common cultural language of Israelis….This is the [...]

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