Rabbi Elyse Wechterman of Congregation Agudas Achim in Attleboro, Mass., has a nice piece in a recent edition of her local paper, in which she says our job is not only to survive the immediate crisis, “but also to reexamine what is truly important, what it is we want to do with what little time, [...]
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Crisis is time to reexamine what is truly important
Posted in Donniel Hartman, North America, tagged crisis, economic, Massachusetts, meaning, rabbis, recession, reconstructionism, reform on October 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
‘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.
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: Dilemmas in Post-Holocaust Theology
Morality in War
Where Do We Come From?
The Experience
6:00 [...]
Quick report from Obama phone conference with rabbis
Posted in Diaspora, politics, tagged politics, rabbis, Obama, Education, reform, health care, Washington, phone conference, conference call, campaign on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From our colleague Rabbi Jonah Layman:
So I just hung up and I must say that President Obama is quite impressive. He framed his presentation around the “unetaneh tokef” prayer quoting who shall live and who shall die, etc. and the shofar blast. This season he says prompts serious reflection and debate about matters of life [...]
New video from Hartman Rabbinic Fellow Steve Moskowitz
Posted in Diaspora, Hartman Institute, North America, Videos, israel, jerusalem, ירושלים, tagged israel, jerusalem, rabbis, video on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbi Steven Moskowitz, who is here in Israel for the summertime residency of the Shalom Hartman Institute Rabbinic Leadership Initiative, has been carrying around a little Flip video camera, showing that not only Chabad rabbis can make good use of high-tech gadgets. His video shows a sampling of Ben Yehuda Street [...]
Yet another summertime blogger at Hartman Institute – Rabbi Dan Fink
Posted in David Hartman, Donniel Hartman, Hartman Institute, jerusalem, lectures, ירושלים, tagged israel, torah, rabbis on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nice post here summarizing some of the lectures Rabbi Dan Fink attended as part of the Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar:
Rabbi (David) Hartman finished with an important charge, which I have been thinking about a great deal as this two week seminar draws to an end. The question, of course, is: how do we take the [...]
Another blogger at Hartman Institute – Rabbi Steven Moskowitz
Posted in Hartman Institute, Videos, jerusalem, ירושלים, tagged israel, jerusalem, Old City עיר אתיקה, rabbis, video on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Steven Moskowitz, rabbi of the Jewish Congregation of Brookville on Long Island’s North Shore, is a Senior Fellow of the Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative. His blogging includes video shot in the Old City of Jerusalem, and a nice post on a rabbinic hike through Wadi Kelt, just south and east [...]
Shalom Hartman Institute honors veteran rabbis
Posted in Diaspora, Hartman Institute, Videos, israel, lectures, ירושלים, לימוד, tagged Education, israel, lecture, rabbis, study, talmud, torah on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
8 rabbis who have come to the summertime Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar at the Institute in Jerusalem for the last 10 years or more were given the honor of being named Senior Fellows for 10 years of participation in the RTS program: Robert Alpert, Howard Hoffman, Kenneth Emert, Frank Fischer, Pat Fischer, Garson Herzfeld, Chaim [...]
Another blogger writes about Shalom Hartman Institute summer programs
Posted in Diaspora, Hartman Institute, North America, Videos, israel, jerusalem, jewish, lectures, ירושלים, לימוד, tagged jerusalem, rabbis, study on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbi Jonah Layman, a Senior fellow of the Rabbinic Leadership Initiative on his current trip to the Jerusalem and the Shalom Hartman Institute:
You know that this is something I look forward to – it’s an opportunity to study, to breathe the air of Jerusalem, to refresh my spirit.


