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David Hartman 17/01/2010 - Cultivating a culture of innovative traditionalism Shalom Hartman Institute is dedicated to bridging tradition and modernity and confronts philosophical and theological questions that arise from the challenging reality of Judaism in the 21st century 09/09/2009 - Reflections on the existential rhythms of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur 04/05/2009 - Parochial interests can destroy national consensus 27/04/2009 - Yom Hazikaron: Remembrance before celebration Donniel Hartman 09/03/2010 - Engaging Israel: Beyond Advocacy The Jewish community and Israel have failed to develop a new Jewish narrative for the Jewish people around the world on which to base their relationship with Israel 22/02/2010 - Who Is A Rabbi? 02/02/2010 - A sense of space: Envisioning an Israel that enables religious difference 21/01/2010 - In the midst of the freeze Yoske (Yosef) Achituv 22/12/2009 - Revenge and its place in the space between text and idea The Quentin Tarantino film “Inglourious Basterds” describes a Jewish campaign of revenge against the Nazis at the peak of World War II. Yoske Achituv examines these questions and describes how Jewish culture deals with the issue of revenge and its place in the space between the text and the idea, on the one hand, and the act and execution, on the other Adam Afterman 31/08/2008 - Beijing 2008: Where are all our medals? Israel can never expect any significant Olympic achievement until physical exercise and athletic prowess become as important on the football field as they are on the battlefield Alick Isaacs 30/03/2009 - Zionism rebooted: The case for peace Why is the image of Israel as a source of a new vibrant Jewish culture or as the object of our critical engagement not enough to make its place in American Jewish life self-evident? Why is it these strategies have not cleared up the nagging question: Why Israel? Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi 07/05/2009 - Engage in Torah study to understand world around us We must strive to establish the Torah for ourselves, our families and our communities as a vital, dynamic text, as relevant to our lives today as it was 2000 years ago 18/02/2009 - Freedom in covenant: A celebration of Eugene Borowitz’s theological quest 07/05/2008 - Take Israel’s Declaration of Independence off the wall 03/02/2008 - Ongoing tasks of liberal Judaism Bill Berk 02/10/2008 - The financial meltdown and the fragility of the human condition On the Days of Awe everything, all that we own and all that we are, hangs in the balance. Here today, gone tomorrow Ari Elon 30/11/2008 - On Torah, trenches and trifles: A modern legend In the beginning the Torah lay bound up in a corner, and whosoever desired would come and claim her… Menachem Fisch 02/03/2009 - Video: Religious tolerance, real pluralism and ‘Holy Envy’ In opening remarks at a recent public forum during the Shalom Hartman Institute annual Theology Conference, Prof. Menachem Fisch discussed the difference between tolerance and religious pluralism 23/04/2008 - Freedom: The forgotten obligation Micah Goodman 13/03/2008 - Breaking the chain of terrorism The army and Shin Bet, for all of their diligent work in preventing attacks, cannot put an end to terrorism; the true battlefield of terror is the human mind, and it is only there that it can be defeated Moshe Halbertal 12/03/2008 - War and ethics in the IDF ethical code The ethical code integrates proportionality and restriction into IDF operational policy, our attempt at maintaining moral integrity in way we handle conflict militarily 20/02/2008 - The Iranian bomb: bane or boon? Yair Lipshitz 25/11/2009 - Romance, masks and traditional texts in 16th century ‘Talmudic comedy’ ‘The Comedy of Betrothal,’ written in the 16th century in the style of Italian Renaissance comedy, is full of sexual innuendo and sophisticated plays on words, together with verse fragments from the Bible and Talmudic texts 13/07/2009 - Fun and Fences: The ethics and esthetics of neighborliness in a Midrash and Israeli commercial Menachem Lorberbaum 29/01/2008 - Moshe Rabbeinu and the Winograd Commission Our politicians would do well to learn a thing or two from Moshe: a man humble enough to listen to others, but not so humble that he can no longer lead Ariel Picard 15/02/2009 - Israel not ready for Green message - yet New environmental-Jewish party did not win enough votes for Knesset representation but is encouraged for the future 14/08/2008 - Israel needs school system that develops Jewish culture Channa Pinchasi 18/02/2010 - No More Blind Faith in Rabbis “As a community, we will have to pay a heavy price: To give up some respect for the rabbis and to be more critical of them. Authority and charisma, accompanied by spiritual and religious power, create an opening for sexual abuse.” Channa Pinchasi offers her thoughts on the Rabbi Elon affair. 08/12/2009 - Women at a funeral: The last act of kindness 18/06/2009 - Send women to spy out the land 21/05/2009 - Women, come and read all of the Megillot Mark Diamond 10/01/2010 - On Monday the rabbi went to the movies Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ is a modern-day Midrash on the Purim story. I see the Biblical Book of Esther as an ancient Jewish fable of justice and revenge 11/02/2009 - A time for prayer, a time for action 20/10/2008 - How is this knight different from all other knights? Vernon Kurtz 30/04/2009 - Ritual creation for Yom Ha’atzmaut By creating mitzvot for Yom Ha’atzmaut, and placing it on religious calendar, we acknowledge ongoing responsibility to see it through lens of the Divine-human encounter on an ongoing basis 25/12/2008 - At Hanukkah, remember, each of us can make a difference 26/11/2008 - Conversion crisis a violation by haredim of God’s teaching Jennie Rosenfeld 24/02/2009 - The ‘queer’ Orthodox Jew One factor which contributes to the pain of Modern Orthodox singles is their position within the broader Orthodox community: Rarely are singles simply accepted without any caveats, or without the ‘nebich’ factor Avi Sagi 17/12/2009 - The IDF’s moral eclipse Assuming the Goldstone report is distorted and dripping with hatred for Israel, does that justify the lack of an investigation into what happened during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip? 23/11/2009 - The spirit of the IDF ethics code and the investigation of Operation Cast Lead 02/04/2008 - Make room for Israeli Arabs Stuart Schoffman 07/06/2009 - Beyond Left and Right in Israeli dialogue This 42nd anniversary of the outbreak of the Six-Day War - source of our great pride and ongoing frustration - is a good moment to affirm that the historical justice and necessity of the sovereign Jewish state are indeed more deeply rooted than Obama noted in his speech 15/01/2009 - Weapons of outrage Steven Moskowitz 15/12/2008 - Riches by the pocketful In the United States, a church can help sustain a synagogue. Christians can say to Jews, “Come, fill our home with your melodies” 08/06/2008 - Israel: Happiness built on ruins Dror Yinon 21/01/2008 - Unite Israel`s education system A unified state school system - where secular and religious children study together, eat lunch together, play basketball and go on field trips together - is the only way to secure our future as a people. Zvi Zohar 07/02/2008 - ‘Like a newborn baby’: Intermarriage and conversion Rather than worry about the religious intention of the would-be convert, the rabbis ought to concern themselves with the future of his children

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