Shalom Hartman Institute

For Sukkot: A Theology of Rain

Rainwater drains off the roof.

Renana Ravitsky Pilzer

Between the Torah and Its Giver: Shemini Atzeret and Simcḥat Torah

Donniel Hartman

Simcha in Torah

Hartman Explores the High Holidays

High Holidays

Essay & Study Guide: Hayom Harat Olam

Explore this ancient Rosh Hashana piyyut that contains just 32 words beginning with Hayom Harat Olam, the day of creation of the world.

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From Hartman Scholars

Yehuda Kurtzer, Nachman Shai

No. 69: A Conversation with the Minister of Diaspora Affairs

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Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain

No. 32: Yom Kippur, 9/11, and the Mistakes of the Past

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Dahlia Lithwick

Our Never-Ending Empathy for Everything Is Backfiring

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Yehuda Kurtzer, Wajahat Ali, Ron Kampeas

No. 68: Twenty Years Later

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Fall 2021 Sources Journal

Michael Holzman

Can Synagogues Revitalize American Democracy?

Ester Schneider/Angel Touch

String Theory: Proximity, Pluralism, and the American Eruv

Ester Schneider/Winged

Yehudah Mirsky

How a Lover of Wisdom Returns

Ester Schneider/A Fountain Sealed

Donniel Hartman

Liberal Zionism and the Troubled Committed

Ester Schneider/Sunbird

summer 2021 symposium

Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

Hartman Virtual Summer Symposium exploring what the Jewish future could look like

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Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

spring 2021 days of learning

Meaning + Milestones: Yom HaShoah, Yom Ha'atzmaut

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Meaning + Milestones: Spring Days of Learning

winter 2021 symposium

Truth Difference and Loyalty

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Truth Difference and Loyalty

fall 2020 symposium

Judaism, Citizenship, and Democracy

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Judaism, Citizenship, and Democracy

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