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18/02/2010 - Israeli Conversion Ariel Picard The dramatic changes in the character of Jewish existence in the modern era have reshaped the spheres of Jewish identity and have made it necessary to create conversion mechanisms that are appropriate to the new possibilities 12/01/2010 - God’s rainbow: Anger management device Yair Lorberbaum The research of Professor Yair Lorberbaum on the image of God in the Bible shows that in contrast to the positions of most of the classical commentators and researchers the Biblical God is subject to emotional flare-ups and is affected by his relations with man. God`s longing for a connection with man, claims Professor Lorberbaum, is sometimes in conflict with his historic plans; however, this longing itself essentially constitutes the deep motivation for his plans 12/01/2010 - The secular Ten Commandments of Bialik Ari Elon The followers of Israeli poet Haim Nahman Bialik were in raptures over his poetry and his innovations but consistently ignored his call for the building of a secular halakha that would define an obligatory ethical foundation for the emerging national entity. Ari Alon directs our attention to a speech the national poet gave a year before his death in which he coined two historic Jewish terms. Alongside his warning of the coming Holocaust, Bialik asked that his audience make known to the world a new set of Ten Commandments - a secular Ten Commandments that will be kept between nations 05/10/2009 - Auschwitz or Sinai? David Hartman Our bodies have painfully tasted man’s indifference and inhumanity to his fellow man. We have witnessed in our own flesh the moral evil present in human society. Our suffering should not lead us to self-righteous postures, but to an increased sensitivity about all human suffering 29/09/2009 - Intimate relationships: Parents and children Samuel Gordon All we really desire is to hear words that will validate us, that we will feel the embrace of someone who loves us, that we will hear in some way: My son, My daughter, My child, My grandchild, My love. What more do any of us desire? Unconditional love, from parents, lovers, spouses, children, and from God 16/09/2009 - 17 leading thinkers named to inaugural Hartman North American Scholars Circle Donniel Hartman Hartman North American Scholars Circle is a division of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Robert and Arlene Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought, which has been formed to provide new ideas and responses to the moral and spiritual challenges facing contemporary North American Jewry 04/08/2009 - Highways, byways, and pathways Mark Diamond We are rabbis who labor on the ways of derekh even as we search for paths of orakh. We travel together with our community on life’s highways and remind people to slow down long enough to appreciate the access roads nearby 03/08/2009 - Is pluralism a Jewish word? Jonah Layman Recent protests in Jerusalem against opening a parking garage on Shabbat and the ongoing struggle by Israel’s rabbinate over control of conversions beg the question of pluralism: Does Judaism tolerate more than one halakhic opinion? 26/07/2009 - NOW AVAILABLE! ‘Leadership and Crisis’: New lecture series for adult study and more on DVD Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi This new program offers study with leading scholars from Hartman Institute in Jerusalem at your convenience that will allow you to raise your community to a new level      1     2     3      Next

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