Planting Tolerance, Uprooting Prejudice in Israel: Tu B’Shvat Conference at the Hartman Institute

Shalom Hartman Institute will host an emergency conference on Thursday, January 20, to address the increasing prejudice against Arab citizens of Israel, promoted in the guise of Jewish tradition. This has become one of the most pressing challenges facing Israeli society today. In his recent article, “What No Rabbi in the World Outside Israel Would [...]

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Inside the Rabbinic Leadership Initiative Experience

So what really happens at the Shalom Hartman Institute during the summer programs? Wonder no more, as Rabbi Michael Feshbach of the Institute’s three-year Rabbinic Leadership Initiative has blogged his experience of the summer. Here are some excerpts: How can I describe the Hartman Institution, and this program, without sounding like I have, to use what I [...]

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NEW: Rabbinic Students Seminar at the Hartman Institute

The Shalom Hartman Institute announces the second year of the well-received Rabbinic Student Seminar. During the 2009-2010 academic year, 20 students from six North American rabbinical schools participated and gave phenomenal evaluations. Click here now for secure online registration. “We are excited about this coming year. We will again include significant time for socializing, for [...]

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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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Celebrate diversity with David Hartman

It is a privilege and great opportunity to work alongside Rabbi David Hartman. My office is adjacent to his, and so I blessed by his sunny disposition and optimism  whenever he comes in. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t relish a good fight. He almost always asks if his latest entry on the Hartman Institute [...]

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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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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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