By Rabbi Michael L. Feshbach The fourth cohort of the Hartman Institute Rabbinic Leadership Initiative recently convened in Jerusalem for their winter seminar. In addition to intensive learning at the Institute, the group took a trip to Bet Shemesh. Rabbi Michael Feshbach, a member of RLI IV and the rabbi of Temple Shalom in Chevy . Read More »
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Hanukkah’s ‘Children of Light and Darkness’
By John Rosove The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America recently launched its Beit Midrash for Rabbis in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, in which visiting Hartman faculty, hosted by leading local institutions, lead text study for area rabbis. Rabbi John Rosove attended the kickoff event in Los Angeles on December 7, 2011. . Read More »
Of Intertexts, Rugelach, and Marginalia: Discussing Boyarin’s Intertextuality upon its Appearance in
By Yitz Landes Daniel Boyarin’s Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash is now out in Hebrew, after a long wait. Read More »
Be’eri School for Teacher Education Kicks Off New Year
The 2011-2012 academic year got off to a great start for nearly 100 educators studying at the Be’eri School for Teacher Education, which was launched in October 2010 in partnership with Keren Karev. Fifty of these teachers are returning for their second year of intensified study in basic and advanced teachers training tracks. A new . Read More »
Hartman Teams Up With Berrie Fellowship in Northern New Jersey
Shalom Hartman Institute President Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, and SHI-North America President Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer recently taught at the launch of the third cohort of The Berrie Fellowship, a two-year intensive Jewish learning and leadership education program for a select cadre of leaders in Northern New Jersey. Read More »
דברים שכתבה מירב בדיחי לפתיחת שנת הלימודים
בנות יקרות – ערב טוב וברוכות הבאות לבית החדש שלנו! בפרשת השבוע, פרשת שופטים, שנקרא השבוע, מדובר על יציאה למלחמה וניתנים שלושה פטורים גורפים לאנשים במצבי חיים שונים – למי שאירס אשה ולא לקחה, למי שנטע כרם ולא חיללו, ולמי שבנה בית ולא חנכו. ?למה דווקא שלושה אלו משתחררים מן החובה הציבורית? מה משותף לשלושתם . Read More »
Israel Knohl’s The Bible’s Genetic Code Translated to Arabic and Published in Cairo
It’s not every day that professional relationships are forged between academics in Israel and Egypt. This is why Professor Israel Knohl was both surprised and pleased to receive a message from Omar Zakaria, the head of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo. Zakaria, who speaks Hebrew fluently, turned to Knohl with a request to translate . Read More »
נֻצַּחְנוּ בִּנְעִימוּתוֹ – ספר חדש לפרופסור מנחם לורברבוים
נֻצַּחְנוּ בִּנְעִימוּתוֹ - תורת האלוהות כפואטיקה בצירה היהודית האנדלוסית וְכָל הַפִילוֹסוֹפִים אוֹמְרִים: נֻצַּחְנוּ בִּנְעִימוּתוֹ וְנֶעְלַם מִמֶּנּוּ לְחֹזֶק הֵרָאוֹתוֹ כְּמוֹ שֶׁיֵּעָלֵם הַשֶׂמֶשׁ מִן הָעֵינַיִם הַחֲלוּשִׁים לְהִשִּׁיגוֹ מו”נ א, נט כאשר הגיע פרופ’ מנחם לורברבוים לפסקה זו בספר מורה נבוכים הוא נעצר. Read More »
Pilgrimage to Values
By Marshall Zolla Shalom Hartman Institute Board Member Marshall Zolla shares his impressions from his time in Israel this summer: Questions dealing with the concept of Jewish Peoplehood challenged our minds and stimulated new insights and understanding . Read More »
מכון הרטמן קורא לבחינה מחדש של יחסי ישראל ויהדות העולם
מכון הרטמן קורא לבחינה מחדש של יחסי ישראל ויהדות העולם סדנת חוקרים בהנחייתו של הרב ד”ר דניאל הרטמן הגיעה למסקנות חדשניות: – השיח המשברי שעמד ביסוד יחסי ישראל והתפוצות אינו רלוונטי עוד – ההנחה של בן־גוריון, ולפיה אי אפשר לפתח חיים יהודיים עשירים בחו”ל – הייתה מוטעית גיליון חדש של כתב העת ‘דרשני’ יוצא לאור . Read More »
Reflections from the Community Leadership Summer Study Retreat
By Dr. Matthew Budd Our rabbi, Wesley Gardenswartz, warned us that the week at the Shalom Hartman Institute’s summer Community Leadership Program in Jerusalem would be “transformational,” but as a skeptical Genesis Jew, I heard this as an unlikely prediction. As I leave Israel and this wonderful week, I have a deep sense that the . Read More »
צבי ינאי כותב על טקס פרסי החינוך
למורי הרטמן ולכל הצוות שלום וברכה יום חג היה לנו אתמול- יום רביעי כז’ בסיון 29.6.11 טקס קבלת פרס החינוך במעמד נשיא המדינה, מר שמעון פרס ושר החינוך ח”כ גדעון סער. בשעה טובה ומוצלחת, התקיים טקס מכובד ומרגש שבו הוענקו פרסי החינוך לשנים תשס”ט (השנה שבה זכינו) ולשנה הנוכחית – תשע”א. כידוע , זהו הפרס . Read More »
Melamdim School for Teacher Education and Rav Mechanech Graduation
On June 14, the Shalom Hartman Institute celebrated the graduation of eight outstanding students. After completing four years of study in the Rav Mechanach (Rabbi Educator) program, Rabbi Joshua Laden and Rabbi Feivel Strauss received s’micha from Rabbi Dr. Read More »
SHI Board Member Alvin Segal, O.C., O.Q. Appointed Officer of the Order of Quebec
The Shalom Hartman Institute congratulates long-time Board of Directors member Alvin Segal, O.C., O.Q. on his appointment to anOfficer of the Order of Quebec. Having also studied at the Hartman Institute for more than 30 years as a regular participant in the Institute’s Community Leadership Summer Retreat, Mr. Read More »
Hartman’s Rabbi Lauren Berkun at White House Jewish American Heritage Month Reception
Rabbi Lauren Berkun, Shalom Hartman Institute Southeast Director of Educational Initiatives, has been invited to join President Barack Obama and a select group of Jewish politicians, business leaders, artists, athletes, veterans, and rabbis at a Read More »
J Street and AIPAC: Unite
By DONNIEL HARTMAN The tragic connection between Memorial Day for our Fallen Soldiers and Israel’s Independence Day, forever linked together in the Jewish-Israeli calendar, bear witness to a story which unfortunately has accompanied too much of Read More »
Havruta 7 – Focus on Engaging Israel
The Summer 2011 issue of Havruta: A Journal of Jewish Conversation, to be published online and in print, will be dedicated to the Shalom Hartman Institute Engaging Israel project. The goal of this exciting new initiative is to respond to growing feelings of disenchantment with and disinterest in Israel among an increasing number of Jews . Read More »
Congratulations to America’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis
Newsweek and the Daily Beast recently published their roster of top American Jewish leadership—”rabbis who are reimagining ritual, reinventing institutions, mobilizing social activism and energizing scholarship. Read More »
Honoring Heroes on Holocaust Remembrance Day
By DONNIEL HARTMAN As the years pass and the numbers of Survivors who walk amongst us diminishes, the responsibility to remember and to remind others to remember has passed on to the next generation. Read More »
?מי זה ר’ יעקב עמדן? מהי חמלה? והאם יש כזה דבר מהפכות ביהדות
אלה ועוד שיחות ומחשבות על מהפכנים בגיליון החדש של דברים אחדים מבית ההוצאה לאור של מכון שלום הרטמן: פרופ’ אבי שגיא ופרופ’ מנחם לורברבוים, עמיתי מחקר בכירים במכון הרטמן, משוחחים על מהפכות מתונות בעולם היהודי. האם היו מהפכות ביהדות, ואם כן – מה מאפיין אותן ביחס למהפכות אחרות? ד”ר אלי פריימן מנכ”ל ובעלים של חברת . Read More »
The Memory of Pesach: A Tale of Two Stories
By DONNIEL HARTMAN Our rabbis teach that all Jews must see themselves as if they had come out of Egypt. The Exodus from Egypt is not a story of a distant past but a living memory which must shape our present lives and identities as Jews. Read More »
The Power of Storytelling
Hundreds of Jewish funders and community professionals from around the world came together on March 27, 2011 for the three-day Jewish Funders Network (JFN) conference on the theme of “The Power of Narrative to Drive Change. Read More »
2011 Florida Winter Retreat
Set against the beautiful background of palm trees and tropical flowers, more than 200 participants gathered in Miami and Boca Raton, Florida, to take part in two one-day retreats hosted by the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Read More »
Now We’re Talking (cont’d)
After making waves in Egypt and then Israel, Donniel Hartman’s “Letter to the Egyptian People” continues to be noticed. Amanda Labora of Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies quoted from the article in a March 2, 2011, blog post, Shalom from Egypt (Global Conversation, March 2, 2011). Read More »
Now We’re Talking
Egyptians and Israelis begin hopeful talks around a virtual table convened by Donniel Hartman In his recent column “Letter to the Egyptian People,” Rabbi Dr. Read More »
The Good Person: 24th Annual International Theology Conference at Shalom Hartman Institute
More than 50 leading Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians and academics from Bosnia, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Israel, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and across North America gathered at the Hartman Institute Jerusalem campus for the 24th annual International Theology Conference on February 13th. Read More »
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