EN / עב
® 2020 SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE. All rights reserved

Ideas

Great ideas, and the leaders who embody them, are the way to a better Jewish future.
HEBREW
Edit

Our ideas library of 3,000+ articles, videos, podcasts, and more will change the way you think and we’re adding to it every day. Search by topic, holiday, scholar, or media to find your inspiration.

Ideas Library

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

The Song in the Heart

©Володимир-Захаров/stock.adobe.com
Sep 30, 2022

Elana Stein Hain

Watch the video

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

Watch the video

Transitions, New Beginnings, and New Regrets

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

The King of Flesh and Blood

©chris/stock.adobe.com
Sep 25, 2022
Jennifer Raskas, Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble

Public Activism and Moshe’s Final Moments

Wikimedia Commons/Google Art Project
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

©Rawf8/stock.adobe.com
Sep 21, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Josh Feigelson
Identity/Crisis Podcast

The Key Pronoun is We

©tanya78/stock.adobe.com
Sep 20, 2022
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake Podcast

Jewish Calendar = Israeli Calendar?

©Sigdesigns/stock.adobe.com
Sep 16, 2022
Michael Koplow

Michael Koplow

The Season of American Jewish Introspection

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Sep 13, 2022
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake Podcast

Kahane, Ben-Gvir, and the Religious Right

Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
Sep 12, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Steve Greenberg, Miryam Kabakov
Identity/Crisis Podcast

Yeshiva vs. Pride

©creativecommons
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

©sveta_zarzamora/stock.adobe.com
Sep 2, 2022
Michael (Avi) Helfand

Michael (Avi) Helfand

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

Scaligera_Wikipedia/Creative Commons
Sep 2, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

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

©narongchaihlaw/stock.adobe.com
Sep 1, 2022
Michael Koplow

Michael Koplow

Everyone on Both Sides Should Calm Down About the JCPOA

Bazaar entrance Tehran/Julia Maudlin, Creative Commons
Aug 30, 2022
Tomer Persico

Tomer Persico

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

Yossi Zamir/Shatil Stock
Aug 26, 2022
Jason Rosensweig

Jason Rosensweig

Beware of Bad Lawyering

©Aerial Mike/stock.adobe.com
load more

Our Idea Center

think tank

Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought

Generating ideas and research on contemporary issues of central importance to Jewish life around the world.
Explore
Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought
curriculum
Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism

Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism

order
Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism
new center in jerusalem

Center for Judaism and State Policy

Explore
Center for Judaism and State Policy
research & education

Courageous Leadership Project

Explore
Courageous Leadership Project

Sources Journal

Micah Goodman

spring 2022

Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It

Sandra Valabregue/Circle in the Tree (detial)
David Zvi Kalman, Sara Wolkenfeld, Mordechai Lightstone
SPRING 2022

Roundtable: Jewish Values and Social Media

Sandra Valabregue/Ilan I (detail)

Mara Benjamin

SPRING 2022

Reading Psalms as the Water Rises

Sandra Valabregue/Totem Tree IV-1

Michal Govrin

FALL 2021

How to Remember the Shoah

Ester Schneider/Ocean and Castor

Donniel Hartman

fall 2021

Liberal Zionism and the Troubled Committed

Ester Schneider/Sunbird

Yehuda Kurtzer

spring 2021

What Happened to Jewish Pluralism?

Image: Pixabay

Mijal Bitton

SPRING 2021

Is Jewish Continuity Sexist?

Elana Stein Hain

SPRING 2021

Home, Endangered: A #MeToo Midrash

Photo montage: Kurt Hoffman
® 2020 SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE. All rights reserved