http://www.hartman.org.il/shinews_list_eng.asp Hartman News http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=127 Institute features prominently as co-organizer and co-sponsor of conference recognizing Walzer at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton beginning June 2 Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=128 New book, in Hebrew, is titled: The Dignity of Adam and Eve: Israeli Legal and Social Feminism Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=279 Along with the democratic capacity to improve, Israel has the democratic conscience to protect its own citizens while trying to minimize the enemy’s civilian casualties, too Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=403 Shalom Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl is the featured player on a major National Geographic channel documentary and gives a lecture at Harvard Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=153 More than 70 Jewish community leaders from North America are arriving this week at Shalom Hartman Institute for the Lay Leaders annual retreat - two weeks packed with learning, lectures, excursions and experiences Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=391 Melamdim 2009 class begins: New Jewish studies teachers training leading to MA in affiliation with Tel Aviv University Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=101 Shalom Hartman Institute website has launched a homepage video player that will feature a regularly changing video from the Institutes vast library of lectures and presentations Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=69 Charles E. Smith High School for Boys celebrate Adar spirit with a day of fun and activity Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=70 Initiative for study event came from staff member who wanted to learn more about the texts she prepares for scholars and visiting students Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=398 Hartman Institute ideas, scholars, and programs - Be’eri - have been in the news a great deal recently Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=148 Shalom Hartman Institute will use environmentally friendly plates and cups at the estimated 5,000 meals served during the six weeks of the Institutes summer programs as part of an expanding effort at environmental awareness Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=290 List of Jewish, Christian, Muslim theologians from North America, Europe, Israel attending invitation-only theology conference, Feb. 22-26 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=100 Stendahl was one of the 20th centurys pioneers of Jewish-Christian dialogue and helped run annual Institute Theology conference for Jews, Christians and Muslims Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=338 The Shalom Hartman Institute Boys High School is being awarded a prize by the city of Jerusalem for its work with rehabilitated prisoners. The project is part of the social involvement program that the school has become known for Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=224 The Institute’s Lay Leadership Global Beit Midrash program now includes two sites where leadership group gathers, one in Los Angeles and one in Washington Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=117 Shalom Hartman Institute Fellow Rani Jaeger analyzes Natan Alterman’s famous poem, “Silver Platter” in this special video lecture Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=43 Delegation from Shalom Hartman Institute gives President Shimon Peres the first Hebrew volume of The Jewish Political Tradition in visit to residence of President Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=462 The video of the 2010 Edward Bronfman Family Foundation Annual Lecture on Religious Pluralism, ‘Holy Living in Human Bodies,’ held February, 16, 2010, is now available for viewing Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=443 Hartman Institute’s Avi Sagi and Adi Ophir have each published opinion articles on the controversy surrounding sex-segregated bus lines in Israel on leading Israeli news websites Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=87 Watch interview (Hebrew with English subtitles) with Israeli Ch. 2 reporter Emanuel Halperin Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=25 Male and female rabbis from Orthodox, Conservative and Reform synagogues in major cities will study texts about Jewish holidays in havrutot and then with Hartman faculty Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=395 The first cohort of 21 participants in the new Shalom Hartman Rabbinical Students Seminar began its yearlong study course Tuesday, October 27, 2009, with dinner, a getting-to-know-you session, and a discussion of the Zohar Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=152 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 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=299 Sources for Winter 2009 Pomrenze Lecture series by Rabbi Prof. David Hartman Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=459 Shalom Hartman Institute scholars participated in the recent Limmud LA conference, a weekend-long festival of Jewish learning in Los Angeles. Participating Hartman scholars were Ariel Picard, Renana Ravitzky Pilzer, and Stuart Schoffman Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=373 Shalom Hartman Institute is creating a new initiative - the Hartman North American Scholars Circle, as part of a select group of recommended scholars, aimed at creating a new think tank to provide sophisticated new responses and ideas to the particular moral and spiritual challenges facing contemporary North American Jewry Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=162 Israel Knohl’s translation and interpretation are being discussed worldwide by Christians, Jews, archeologists, theologians, historians, and the media Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=369 Summertime programs at Shalom Hartman Institute are well under way. We have hundreds of rabbis, community leaders, and others here for seminars, havruta study, lectures, tours, and more. So, with visitors, we also have bloggers Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=260 Several Shalom Hartman Institute scholars will be participating in the international seminar of the Israel Association of Research in Jewish Education in Israel Jan. 7-9, 2009 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=421 The Shalom Hartman Institute mourns the passing of Robert H. Smith, z”l, and prays that God bring comfort to the Smith and Kogod families Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=379 Two articles from the third issue of Havruta, ‘The Spiritual Quest,’ are now available online Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=180 In-depth article about the Messiah Stone and its translation is available in new issue Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=350 Shalom Hartman Institute is launching a new initiative for upcoming religious leaders in June 2009, in partnership with the Russell Berrie Fellowship Program at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), one of Romes major pontifical universities Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=156 Vision Forum brings together Heads of School and key board members to address significant questions facing world Jewry in general and Jewish education in particular. Over an eight-day period, participants will contemplate the critical challenges facing Jews today Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=130 Youth leaders convened at WIZO Youth Village, Nahlat Yehuda, to hear, learn and discuss questions of leadership, social problems and the vision of a Jewish Israeli society Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=154 Despite the weak dollar, and thus the increased expense of such a trip for participants, registration is high and this years group is large Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=22 Hartman Institute launches co-ed, rabbinical program aimed at creating educators for day schools Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=235 We have compile source materials from our many hundreds of files for you to use – for teachers looking for materials to back up their own classes, for rabbis looking for sermon ideas and the sources for them, for lay and community leaders studying on their own or in adult studies programs, and for individuals interested in doing their own research Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=399 The Shalom Hartman Institute is pleased to announce a new organizational structure built around three centers focusing on our core areas of advanced Judaic Studies research, educational initiatives in Israel, and North American leadership development. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=252 Ariel Abramovitz will soon be participating in the nationwide geography competition Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=168 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 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=20 Shalom Hartman Institute’s annual International Theology Conference, opening January 20, addresses the notion of family in the three faith traditions – as value, as religious metaphor, as resource and as challenge. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=269 Read these special articles and view the special videos we have prepared for you with the goal of answering questions, or more likely, prompting new ones Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=273 Let our Israeli friends, cousins, our extended mishpacha, know that we have not forgotten them Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=67 Be’eri aims to transform secular Israeli high schools into centers of Jewish pluralism by empowering educators, students and parents to serve as change agents and turn Jewish studies from marginal discipline into cornerstone of secular Israeli education Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=145 TICHON addresses key issues facing Jewish education in the modern world and is designed to help sustain and enhance teachers’ passion for their profession, while developing and producing new curricular units for use in the classroom Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=243 David Hartman commented on the passing of two rabbis of significant achievement in the past week Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=388 American rabbis, Bernie Madoff, and the chance for spiritual redress Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=29 The hope and expectation is for these rabbis to transport this energy back to their communities in North America, and infuse them in turn with similar inspiration Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=177 The program has made a considerable contribution to interfaith activity Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=214 The seminars of choice this year include: Violence, Halakhah and Nationalism, the footsteps of the past in the life of the modern Jew, the Haazinu portion of the Torah, and the problem of the righteous man who suffers. Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=48 Lectures will take place March 24 and April 7, both at 8 p.m., at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=181 This year the school has two seventh grade classes, three eighth grade classes, one ninth and one tenth grade class Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=182 highlights for the coming month include: an opening ceremony for the new year, a lecture by Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann, a parent-pupil learning evening and a lecture on the topic of repentance Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=110 The chosen theme - And you shall choose life - taken from a passage in the Torah (Deuteronomy 30:20), emphasized the courage and ultimate optimism of the Jewish people Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=318 Two-day seminar enriched school principals and Be’eri program coordinators and deepened their knowledge and understanding of the educational challenges that the Be’eri program continues to tackle Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=326 Knohl describes the historical Jesus as ’a very devoted and national Jew who wanted to sacrifice his life in order to redeem his people‘ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=343 As you plan for your summertime 2009 sojourn in Jerusalem, here is information on where to stay while participating in Shalom Hartman Institute programs Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=124 Israel Knohl says ‘Hazon Gabriel’ text confirms his thesis belief in a slain and resurrected messiah existed prior to messianic activity of Jesus and calls publication of text ‘extraordinarily important’ Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=274 This is our moment to spin our Israeli yarn, and add to this magical Jewish tapestry with as many golden cords as we can create for as long as we choose, on our timetable, not cowed by anyones threats Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=228 Participants explored, as they will all year, the topics of childbirth and delivery from various perspectives, examining childbirth as experience and metaphor in the Jewish tradition Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=312 David Hartmans March 16, 2009, Pomrenze Lecture has been postponed and will be rescheduled for March 23, 2009 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=161 A current RLI participant says the program has expanded her Hebrew vocabulary, fluency and exposure to Jewish texts in a Jewish world that asks its leaders to be comfortable in all settings Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=16 Shalom Hartman Institute is opening a multi-denominational rabbinical program that will ordain men and women from all denominations to work as rabbi-educators in community Jewish high schools across North America. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=308 Costumes, dancing, singing, and performances mark middle school activities Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=245 A 12th grade student at the Shalom Hartman Institute Charles E. Smith High School for Boys has won honorable mention in an essay writing contest sponsored by the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on the occasion of Israels 60th anniversary Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=158 The Times article describes the stone tablet as ‘causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days..’ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=172 Israeli musician Shlomo Gronich performed a special concert at Shalom Hartman Institute on June 30,2008, for attendees of the Lay Leadership Summer Retreat program and others Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=210 Once a month, top lecturers from Shalom Hartman Institute, including Rabbi Prof. David Hartman, Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Micah Goodman and Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, transmit their knowledge to hundreds of lay leaders across North America by video conference Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=121 This is the list of the second cohort of North American rabbis who have completed the Shalom Hartman Institutes Rabbinic Leadership Initiative three year program from 2004-2007 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=135 The board visited two of 11 participating high schools – Nahalat Yehuda in Rishon Lezion and Tichon Hadash in Tel Aviv Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=120 These rabbis from North America were the first group to complete the three-year Shalom Hartman Institute Rabbinic Leadership Initative program, from 2001-2004 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=38 Program provides senior officers with pluralism as model and tool to help them function effectively as responsible citizens and as leaders in armed forces Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=72 Pupils, who are studying oral Torah or Jewish philosophy as part of their matriculation program, arrived from Modiin, Maaleh Habesor, Netanya, Hadera, Rishon Lezion and Jerusalem Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=400 New Shalom Hartman Institute video shows the benefits and life-enriching services we provide to thousands of people, young and old, professional and student, secular and religious, Jewish and non-Jewish, North American and Israeli, year in and year out Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=415 Hartman Institute launches Hebrew website Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=416 Shalom Hartman Institute will conduct a memorial evening in January for world-renowned Judaic studies scholar Yochanan Muffs, who died December 6, 2009 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=339 Tichon Hadash Tel Aviv, a high school in the Israeli secular school system participating in the Be’eri program of Jewish education enrichment, has won an award for Jewish education from Tel Aviv University Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=36 Full roster of programs for rabbis, community leaders, educators will fill summer calendar Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=205 David Hartman received an honorary doctorate from Weizmann Institute in Rehovot on Nov. 17 in recognition of his lifelong work to revitalize Judaism and strengthen Jewish identity among Jews the world over; above all, of his gift of vision and action, faith and scholarship, toward building a more pluralistic, tolerant, and enlightened Israeli society Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=208 Audio and video versions of the first two lectures in the Fall 2008 Lindenbaum lecture series from Rabbi Prof. David Hartman are now online Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=447 Shalom Hartman Institute’s new initiative, the ‘North American Scholars Circle,’ held its inaugural meeting in New York, January 4-7, 2010. The scholars met in a formal setting for the first time, studying together and hearing from distinguished peers on the program’s inaugural theme this year: Ikarim: Foundations for Contemporary Judaism in North America Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=95 The two most recent lectures in Rabbi Prof. David Hartmans Lindenbaum-Pomrenze Lecture series are now available for viewing on the Shalom Hartman Institute website Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=123 Lectures by Rabbi Prof. David Hartman in the long-running Lindenbaum (now Lindenbaum-Pomrenze) Lecture series are now available for viewing in one convenient location on the Shalom Hartman Institute website Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=159 According to Tichon program director Noam Zion, tikkun olam is a primary definition of the human calling in the contemporary liberal Jewish world Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=330 Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israels Wars, the official name for Memorial Day in Israel, was noted at Shalom Hartman Institute during a one-hour program on the morning of April 28 Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=303 Video of the 2009 Shalom Hartman Institute Theology Conference public forum, held in honor of late theologian and onetime Hartman Institute fellow, Krister Stendahl, can be seen here Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=139 The program is being shown on Shalom TV, June 1-7 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=439 As you plan for your summertime 2010 visit to Jerusalem, here is information on where to stay while participating in Shalom Hartman Institute programs Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=2 The new website will offer users multimedia resources, including text, audio, video, and updates from Institute events, conferences and programs Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT