#HartmanSummer 2014 Theme: A Time for War, A Time for Peace

In Summer 2014, the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute will explore and teach Jewish ideas relating to the pressing contemporary issues of war and peace

Shalom Hartman Institute

November 13, 2013

November 13, 2013

Shalom Hartman Institute

Summer 2014 Theme: “A Time for War, A Time for Peace”

In Summer 2014, the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute will explore and teach Jewish ideas relating to the pressing contemporary issues of war and peace.

In today’s world, "war" and "peace" are real categories and sources of anxiety. The State of Israel exists at the threshold of a readiness for war even as it pursues the agenda of peacemaking. Diaspora Jews are implicated in these conversations by their governments’ political agendas, and by a constant and changing array of geopolitical threats.

War and peace are also each independently sites of an array of major Jewish ethical questions:

How do we balance the relative values of peace and security? What is the relationship between violence and peacemaking?
How should the Jewish ethics of war evolve in light of the changing nature of war?
How should Jewish values inform negotiations at the peace table, and decisions to use military force?
What ideas and images about peace – in liturgy, ethics, and text – inform how we think about peace as a contemporary concern?
What is gained and what is lost when “war” and “peace” go from being metaphors that animate Jewish sensibilities and become actual concerns?
How has the experience of constant war informed the consciousness of Israeli and global Jewry?

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