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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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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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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

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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 [...]

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President Obama is set to call a group of religious leaders today – that’s Aug. 19, 2009 -  to push his health care reform proposal. At least one rabbi with ties to Shalom Hartman Institute is going to be in on the call. Rabbi Jonah Layman, rabbi of Shaare Tefila Congregation of the Washington, DC, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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