SHI event this week: Jerusalem–War and Peace

 First session in a series on the ‘The “Jewishness” of Israel’ On Thursday, October 28, the Shalom Hartman Institute (SHI), in partnership with the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) “Harel” brigade  and the Givat Hatachmoshet organization (Ammunition Hill Museum) will hold a special event  in honor of author Dr. Nachum Baruchi. The event, “Jerusalem–War and Peace,” [...]

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Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) in a contentious time: Hartman Institute commentary

Has there ever been a more contentious time in Jerusalem than now? Or is that a joke? It has always been the most contentious time in Jerusalem: invaders, occupants, takeovers, fences, walls, barbed wire, combat, fire, and more are in the earthly history of Jerusalem. Yet now, while we hope and pray there is never [...]

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Hartman Begins Process of Engaging Israel in a New Way, Beyond ‘Traditional’ Advocacy

Update, March 16, 2010: The meme continues. Here’s another piece (this one by Irwin J. Mansdorf) on engaging new forms of conversation between Israel and the world: The Hasbara challenge: We can’t counter Arab PR by telling people Israel invented cell phone A new Israeli government effort to bring the average “Yossi Israeli” into the [...]

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Recent, upcoming and ongoing appearances by Hartman Institute scholars in North America

Noam Zion is in a “historic one-month scholar-in-residence program” at Congregation Shearith Israel, Dallas, Texas: “The Bernard “Beanie” Siegel Scholar-in-Residence Program – “GPS Judaism: Finding Your Place in the Jewish Tradition.” Click here to see the entire month-long program. More details here and here. Alick Isaacs spoke on the subject, “The Meaning of Israel in [...]

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“Just war” theory, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Israel, and Gaza

In accepting his Nobel Prize for Peace on Thursday, December 10, 2010, US President Barack Obama defended (text of speech here from Nobel website) the morality of a military seeking to bring peace to a conflict-torn land and the theory that some wars are just: Over time, as codes of law sought to control violence [...]

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Hartman Institute scholars, ideas, friends in the news

A student who attended the Religion and the Challenge of Modernity conference at Grand Valley State University in Michigan earlier this month had this to say about Donniel Hartman’s presentation there: Donniel Hartman, the first lecturer of the day at this conference, did a very good job not only presenting his thoughts, but introducing a [...]

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Iran awaits ayatollah’s order to build nukes – gulp! or not?

The London Times (sorry, Times of London) is reporting that – according to Western intelligence sources – Iran has: perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb Leaving aside whether we can actually believe that [...]

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Heated commentary on Donniel Hartman ‘blog’ about Obama’s Cairo speech

President Obama’s speech in Cairo occurred more than a week ago, and Donniel Hartman’s commentary on the speech (“Are Jews Ready for Obama?“) also has been online for more than a week, but the debate – about the speech, and about Donniel’s commentary has yet to die down. Several dozen comments have been published (and [...]

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Donniel Hartman comments on President Obama’s speech in Cairo

UPDATE: Yes, Donniel’s post is already online, and has been so for several days. Sorry it took a while to get back to this post. See Donniel’s post here: “Are Jews Ready for Obama?“: While President Obama’s speech in Cairo was also about settlements, and about the Road Map, in essence it was about neither. [...]

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Obama’s ‘tough love’ for Israel: Did he read Donniel Hartman column?

Last November, a few days before the 2008 election that brought Barack Obama into the White House as the 44th US President, Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman wrote what we called a “Letter to the new American President.” We didn’t know who would be elected, Obama or Sen. John McCain, but Donniel wanted to write the [...]

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