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Mar 21, 2023
Maital Friedman, David Zvi Kalman

New Beit Midrash: Digital and Beyond

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Mar 17, 2023
Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi

Israelis are Turning Against Each Other: Can We Step Back From the Abyss?

Omer Toledano via Wikimedia Commons
Mar 17, 2023
Joshua Ladon

Joshua Ladon

Faith Beyond Certainty

Mar 16, 2023
Tani Frank, Yardena Schwartz

Who is a Jew in the State of Israel?

Mar 14, 2023
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake

On the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis

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Mar 14, 2023
Yehuda Kurtzer, David Ellenson
Identity/Crisis

American Judaism, the Chain Novel

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Mar 12, 2023
Tomer Persico

Tomer Persico

Israel’s ‘Evangelical’ Jewish Fundamentalist, Bezalel Smotrich, Comes to Washington

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Mar 10, 2023
Yossi Klein Halevi, Jodi Rudoren

What Should American Jews do About the Assault on Israeli Democracy?

Hanay/Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution
Mar 10, 2023
Joshua Ladon

Joshua Ladon

Between Mystery and the Rational: Several Paths to the Mountain

Mar 9, 2023

Mike Moskowitz

Seasonal Resistance

Mar 7, 2023

Yehuda Kurtzer

Identity/Crisis

Purim, But Make It Darker

©oleg/stock.adobe.com
Mar 6, 2023
Shaul Magid

Shaul Magid

Was Haman Partially Right? Haman the Accuser and Exilic (un)Consciousness

Wikimedia Commons/Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Mar 6, 2023
Avidan Freedman

Religious Zionists, This is our Esther Moment

flygirljc777 via Flickr
Mar 6, 2023
David Zvi Kalman

David Zvi Kalman

This Graphic Novel is a Bible Commentary. But What Kind?

Mar 6, 2023
Batya Ariel Cohen

What Made Esther a Great Leader?

Image: Wikimedia Commons
Mar 1, 2023
Masua Sagiv, Dahlia Lithwick

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Mar 1, 2023
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake

A Pogrom in Huwara

Ayman Nobani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
Feb 27, 2023
Yehuda Kurtzer, Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield
Identity/Crisis

From Kharkiv to New York

©halfpoint/stock.adobe.com
Feb 27, 2023
Aaron Friedman Tartakovsky

Diving Deeper Into Judaism — My Summer at Hartman

Photo: Richie Rayant
Feb 26, 2023
Peter Pettit

Peter Pettit

A Christian’s Love and Fear for Israel

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Yehuda Kurtzer

fall 2022

Liberal Zionism & the Idea of the Idea

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Masua Sagiv

FALL 2022

Reclaiming Mamlakhtiyut: The Road to an Inclusive Israeli Identity

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Donniel Hartman

FALL 2022

Zionism and Power: The Challenge of Our Time

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Mijal Bitton

FALL 2022

Ne’emanut: Placing Relationships at the Center

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Micah Goodman

spring 2022

Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It

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Mara Benjamin

SPRING 2022

Reading Psalms as the Water Rises

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James Loeffler

SPRING 2022

The One and the Many: On Comparing the Holocaust

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David Zvi Kalman, Sara Wolkenfeld, Mordechai Lightstone
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Roundtable: Jewish Values and Social Media

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