Say hi to Hartman Institute at the UJC General Assembly in Washington, Nov. 8-10, 2009

Shalom Hartman Institute will be at the United Jewish Communities (soon to be Jewish Federations of North America) annual General Assembly from November 8-10, 2009, in Washington, D.C. (Booth 311). First, and foremost, I invite you to stop by for a chat. I plan to have some goodies from Israel with me to entice people [...]

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Israel and North American Jews – Do we need each other? Do we understand each other?

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic Monthly interviewed Michael Oren, a New York state native who is now Israel’s ambassador to the United States in Aspen, CO, recently. In the interview (click here to see the entire interview on video; click here to read the Israel-Diaspora relations segment edited down for you), Oren discusses the need [...]

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New video from Hartman Rabbinic Fellow Steve Moskowitz

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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Another blogger at Hartman Institute – Rabbi Steven Moskowitz

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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‘Serving God’ video lectures available online soon

Four lectures about Serving God in the Jewish tradition by leading scholars of Jewish studies from the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel, pluralistic Jewish learning and leadership training. Soon on the Shalom Hartman Institute website.

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Hartman Institute’s women scholars shine online

It’s most definitely NOT affirmative action. In fact, I didn’t even realize it had happened until I checked the homepage of the Hartman Institute after my latest article update. It just so happens that there are four items on the homepage featuring women scholars at the Institute.
The latest is Channa Pincasi’s piece about the spies [...]

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God Narratives in the Torah – Donniel Hartman

God Narratives in the Torah by Donniel Hartman. This special lecture is now available online for the first time. It was given July 10, 2008, at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.

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Israel’s Redemption From Egypt A Condemnation of Injustice

Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, in this pre-Pesach message for 2009 (5769) talks in this short (6-minute) video about how the redemption of the Israelite slaves from Egypt is not a precursor to God’s stepping in and saving the Jewish people again and again. Nor is it a sense of triumphalism [...]

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Invitation to Summer 2009 Rabbinic Study Seminar at Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

Rabbi Bill Berk, Director, Center for Rabbinic Enrichment, invites rabbis the world over to attend the Summer 2009 Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

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Hartman video views top 50,000

I’ve been tracking our video views for you on this blog since we reached 10,000 (July)  and again when we reached 40,000 (Nov. 13). Now we’re at 50,000 – actually, 50,234 50,647 50,681 50,783 – on our external channels, with an additional 5,000+ on our in-house viewers, as well.
I’m stunned, actually, [...]

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