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Ideas for Today

Ideas for Today

What are the big Jewish ideas we need for this moment? Hartman scholars tackle the pressing issues of our day so we can think and do better.
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Ideas for Today
Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

It is Time to Make Big Bets on Teens and Young Adults

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Wellspring

Wellspring

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Wellspring
Avigail Schneiman

Avigail Schneiman

Navigating Gen Z Israel Conversations

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college students
Winter Student Seminar

Winter Student Seminar in Jerusalem

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Winter Student Seminar
Hartman in the News

Shalom Hartman Institute Expands to Boston

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Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

What Does it Mean to Provide our Children with a Jewish Education?

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Yehuda Kurtzer, Na'ama Applbaum, Marc Baker
Identity/Crisis Podcast

The Song in the Heart

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Yehuda Kurtzer, Joseph Dweck
Identity/Crisis Podcast

The King of Flesh and Blood

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Jennifer Raskas, Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble

Public Activism and Moshe’s Final Moments

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Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake Podcast

Jewish Calendar = Israeli Calendar?

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Aspirational Zionism: Summer 2022 in Jerusalem

Yehuda Kurtzer

Community Leadership Program

The Zionist Idea

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Donniel Hartman

Community Leadership Program

Zionism and Power

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Mijal Bitton

Community Leadership Program

Zionism as Loyalty?

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Yossi Klein Halevi

Community Leadership Program

Israel: From Destruction to Rebirth

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Masua Sagiv

Community Leadership Program

Citizenship and Belonging: ​Imagining Israeli Identity

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Elana Stein Hain

Community Leadership Program

Covenantal Zionism: Religious Perspectives

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Judaism and Modernity Judaism
and Modernity Jewish Peoplehood Jewish
Peoplehood Judaism & Democracy Jewish &
Democratic Israel Jewish Ethics & the Public Sphere Jewish Ethics &
the Public Sphere
summer 2022 community leadership program
Aspirational Zionism: Revitalizing a Moral Conversation About Israel

Aspirational Zionism: Revitalizing a Moral Conversation About Israel

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Aspirational Zionism: Revitalizing a Moral Conversation About Israel
iEngage

Two Weeks Learning in Jerusalem

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Shoshana Cohen, Tomer Persico

A Matter of Life: Roots of the Jewish and Christian Divergence on Abortion

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Dahlia Lithwick, Micah Schwartzman

Is the Religious Liberty Tent Big Enough to Include Commitments of Jews?

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Elana Stein Hain

Zionism

The Israel We Imagine: When Visions Confront Reality

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Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

What Do We Mean by a ‘Big Tent’?

Micah Goodman, Jonathan Haidt

Sources Presents: Can Faith and Ethics Heal our Fractured Society?

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Zohar Atkins, Jonathan Silver
LGBTQ

The Contested Idea of Equality

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Mijal Bitton, Yolanda Savage-Narva, Gil Preuss

Towards a Community of Belonging

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Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi

Muslim-Jewish Reconciliation

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Oct 2, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Na'ama Applbaum, Marc Baker
Identity/Crisis Podcast

The Song in the Heart

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Sep 30, 2022

Elana Stein Hain

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Self-Incrimination and Confession: What We Know and Say about Ourselves 

Sep 29, 2022
Michael Koplow

Michael Koplow

Lapid Says the Magic Words

Office of U.S. House Speaker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sep 28, 2022

Elana Stein Hain

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Transitions, New Beginnings, and New Regrets

Sep 28, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Joseph Dweck
Identity/Crisis Podcast

The King of Flesh and Blood

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Sep 25, 2022
Jennifer Raskas, Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble

Public Activism and Moshe’s Final Moments

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Sep 23, 2022
Michael Koplow

Michael Koplow

Breaking Down the Arab Parties’ Breakup

Four leaders of the Joint List in 2019 / Zaher333
Sep 21, 2022
Michael (Avi) Helfand

Michael (Avi) Helfand

Can the State tell Yeshivas What They Can Teach? What the Courts May Decide

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Sep 21, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Josh Feigelson
Identity/Crisis Podcast

The Key Pronoun is We

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Sep 20, 2022
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake Podcast

Jewish Calendar = Israeli Calendar?

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Sep 16, 2022
Michael Koplow

Michael Koplow

The Season of American Jewish Introspection

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Sep 13, 2022
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake Podcast

Kahane, Ben-Gvir, and the Religious Right

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Sep 12, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Steve Greenberg, Miryam Kabakov
Identity/Crisis Podcast

Yeshiva vs. Pride

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Sep 7, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

It is Time to Make Big Bets on Teens and Young Adults

Sep 6, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Shannon Sarna
Identity/Crisis Podcast

What Jewish Food Is

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Sep 2, 2022
Michael (Avi) Helfand

Michael (Avi) Helfand

Illegal Discrimination or Religious Freedom? Yeshiva University vs YU Pride Alliance

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Sep 2, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

What Does it Mean to Provide our Children with a Jewish Education?

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Sep 1, 2022
Michael Koplow

Michael Koplow

Everyone on Both Sides Should Calm Down About the JCPOA

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Aug 30, 2022
Tomer Persico

Tomer Persico

Is Ben-Gvir Becoming a More Family-Friendly Version of Kahanism?

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Aug 26, 2022
Jason Rosensweig

Jason Rosensweig

Beware of Bad Lawyering

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spring 2022

Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It

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Roundtable: Jewish Values and Social Media

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Mara Benjamin

SPRING 2022

Reading Psalms as the Water Rises

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Michal Govrin

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How to Remember the Shoah

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Donniel Hartman

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Liberal Zionism and the Troubled Committed

Ester Schneider/Sunbird

Yehuda Kurtzer

spring 2021

What Happened to Jewish Pluralism?

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Mijal Bitton

SPRING 2021

Is Jewish Continuity Sexist?

Elana Stein Hain

SPRING 2021

Home, Endangered: A #MeToo Midrash

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