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Background Readings for iEngage Video Lecture Series

Shalom Hartman Institute

January 17, 2013

January 17, 2013

Shalom Hartman Institute

LECTURE 1: From Crisis to Covenant

2. David Hartman, The Significance of Israel for the Future of Judaism

3. Donniel Hartman, Engaging Israel: Beyond Advocacy

4. Donniel Hartman, The New Rules of Engagement

LECTURE 2: Religion and Peoplehood

14. Steven Cohen & Jack Wertheimer, Whatever Happened to the Jewish People

15. Joseph Soloveitchik, Kol Dodi Dofek: It Is the Voice of My Beloved That Knocketh

LECTURE 3: Sovereignty and Identity

20. David Ben Gurion, The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution

21. Eliezer Berkovits, On the Return to Jewish National Life

LECTURE 4: Power and Powerlessness

16. Abraham Joshua Heschel, No Time for Neutrality

17. Ruth Wisse, The Contradictions of Jewish Power

LECTURE 5: War and Occupation

15. David Hartman, Living with Conflicting Values

16. Noam Zohar, War and Peace

17. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars

LECTURE 6: Morality on the Battlefield

2. Donniel Hartman, Fighting a Just War against Hamas Justly

LECTURE 7: Jewish and Democratic State

11. Alexander Yakobson, Jewish Peoplehood and the Jewish State, How Unique? A Comparative Survey

12. Ruth Gavison, The Jewish State, A Justification

13. Menachem Lorberbaum, Religion and State in Israel

LECTURE 8: Religious Pluralism and Human Rights

12-18. Various Sources

19. David Hartman, Israel’s Responsibility for World Jewry: Reflections on Debate about the Conversion Law

20. Moshe Halbertal, Human Rights and Membership Rights in the Jewish Tradition

LECTURE 9: Values Nation

12. Martin Buber, The Spiritual Center

13. Martin Buber, The Zionist Idea

14. David Hartman, Widening the Scope of Covenantal Consciousness

15. David Hartman, The Third Jewish Commonwealth

16. Daniel Elazar, The Peace Process and the Jewishness of the Jewish State

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