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The 24th annual Shalom Hartman Institute Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar, July 5-15, 2010, will study "The Language of the Other."

 

Click here to register for the 2010 RTS program and receive the Early Bird discount, through February 1, 2010.

 

Rabbinic Enrichment Department Director Bill Berk says the theme will resonate both with Jewish life in North America and with life in Israel:

 

"We will ask questions like, How do we think and speak of the other in our tradition? What are we to do with the non-Jew in our kehillot and in our Jewish country? What lexicon do we use for the non-Jew? How can that lexicon change? How did Jews in the past create alternative ways of thinking about the other? How did these alternatives fare? Just what do we do with chosenness and ethnicity? Is the non-Jew a morally significant other for us? How do membership rights conflict with human rights? Can communities create priorities without racism? How do we survive in a multicultural world?

 

"These are some of the questions we will be wrestling with this summer. Some of our tiyulim (daytrips) will be dedicated to this theme as we explore issues like: How does the IDF handle the other? What are Israeli women doing to create another way of thinking about the other? In our elective classes we will explore issues that are related, such as conversion.

 

"So, we invite you to study in havruta with each other and with David Hartman, Donniel Hartman, Moshe Halbertal, Israel Knohl, Micah Goodman, Melila Hellner-Eshed, Rachel Korazim, Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Rut Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Noam Zion, Menachem Lorberbaum, and many others.  As always we will not only study with the great scholars of the Hartman Institute Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought think tank, but we will hear from important Israeli thinkers and politicians.

 

The cost of the summer study is $650, but if you register by February 1, 2010, you can take advantage of the special early bird price of $600.