The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies has established a new school in Judaic studies, a school renowned for its groundbreaking interdisciplinary approach, its unique communal learning environment, and its profound commitment to merging Jewish past and present. Breaking through traditional academic detachment, the center produces research both deeply grounded in classical sources and highly relevant to contemporary life.”
- Prof. Avi Sagi, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Advisory Committee
 
“The center’s work with members of other religions is truly unique. It is not interfaith dialogue; we’re not out to discover what we share, but rather to capitalize on our differences. Jews, Christians and Muslims each enjoy the contribution of otherness to their own reflective enterprise. There is nothing more exhilarating than someone who can hear voices in your own faith to which you yourself have become deaf.”
- Prof. Menachem Fisch, International Theology Conference Advisory Committee

Jews today live in an open marketplace of ideas, ideologies and lifestyles, and must constantly ensure the relevance and vitality of their heritage by bridging the values of the Jewish tradition with the realities of the modern world. Judaism must be receptive to critical thinking, contemporary scholarship, and interdisciplinary exchange.

The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies is home to more than 40 distinguished scholars of multiple disciplines and denominations, including some of the finest minds in contemporary Judaic scholarship. It is committed to exploring new directions of Jewish philosophy, theology and sociology, and serves as a hotbed for the cultivation of innovative ideas, a scholarly community for prominent academics, and a source of a wide range of publications.

Areas of Research:
  • Ethics, Politics and Public Policy
  • Halakha
  • Gender
  • Judaism in Israel
  • World Jewry
  • Religion and Religiosity
  • Jewish Classics

     
   
Learning a lesson from a shooting
For some, shooting of Palestinian prisoner by IDF soldier is a moment to close ranks; for others it is a moment for finger-pointing. I believe it is an opportunity for education and growth
Christian leadership program begins at Hartman Institute
Leading Christian academics, theologians and clergy are headed to the Shalom Hartman Institute beginning July 21 for an intensive 10-day seminar in Jewish texts and learning that is the first of its kind even at an Institute that has been deeply involved in interfaith activities for decades
Israel expresses courage of Jewish people to act, knowing world is imperfect
Israel is not the fulfillment of all our messianic dreams of a just society overcoming greed and corruption, but rather it is an opportunity to translate the deepest values of our Judaic tradition into the concrete social and political aspects of reality
‘Gabriel’s Revelation’ tablet translation now available on Hartman website
Israel Knohl’s translation and interpretation are being discussed worldwide by Christians, Jews, archeologists, theologians, historians, and the media
Philistines and the future of Zionism: The redemptive scenario of Rabbi Zvi Tau
Tau teaches that the State of Israel is itself sacred to a degree, and must be loyally served and protected, and his unusual and creative analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has generated great interest among some Israelis - and concern among others
Questioning origin of Hasidism founder Baal Shem Tov
Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer, often called Baal Shem Tov, considered to be the founder of Hasidic Judaism, was born in Bukovina, a region in the Carpathian Mountains now divided between Romania and Ukraine, and not in the Podolian village of Okopy
Sharing Jewish space: Membership, conversion, and the search for community
Over the last two centuries, the Jewish people and their religion have become diverse as never before. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to define a shared ethos around which the Jewish community can remain unified
Heavenly Jerusalem, earthly Jerusalem
Never has a city been so beautiful and so blemished, so revered and so reviled, so easy to love and so hard to live in
Shavuot at Hartman: Religious Meaning of Revelation
Shavuot learning at Shalom Hartman Institute Sunday, June 8, 2008, and Monday, June 9, 2008, will include lectures in English and in Hebrew from top Institute scholars
Krister Stendahl, theologian, former Hartman Institute director, dies at 86
Stendahl was one of the 20th century`s pioneers of Jewish-Christian dialogue and helped run annual Institute Theology conference for Jews, Christians and Muslims
Havruta: Unique new journal now available from Shalom Hartman Institute
Havruta is an experiment in translation and adaptation, with articles written especially for it or adapted from scholarly books and journals
David Hartman adds lectures on morality, law, women, converts, non-Jew to Lindenbaum-Pomrenze series
Lectures will take place March 24 and April 7, both at 8 p.m., at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
"The Jewish Political Tradition" comes out in Hebrew
Series explores Jewish political thought from biblical times to present; texts and commentaries in Volume I address basic question of who ought to rule community
Hebrew translation of Muffs book, "The Personhood of God," published
Theologian examines anthropomorphic evolution of Divine Image, from creator to father, husband, king, master
Leibowitz and Heschel: Prayer and relationship of God to modern individual
Leibowitz is concerned about rational consistency of halakha; Heschel seeks to revitalize Judaism within modern context
Images of God: Prophetic dispute between freedom and determinism
Does God judge us individually, on account of the consequences of willful choices? Is our fate sealed by a destiny predetermined by the deity? This reminds us of debate over how much behavior and potential are dependent on genetics or environment
Is religious law sole authority in Judaism?
Exploring the inner struggle within Jewish tradition of whether moral sentiments that contradict religious life have authority for a person committed to living according to God`s will
     
 
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