Yehuda Kurtzer
Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Yehuda is a leading thinker and author on the meaning of Israel to American Jews, on Jewish history and Jewish memory, and on questions of leadership and change in American Jewish life. Yehuda led the creation of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America in 2010 as a pioneering research and educational center for the leadership of the North American Jewish
Jewish tradition considers how inhabitants of a jurisdiction become citizens, with rights to earn and obligations to discharge.
In this opening keynote of the two-week symposium Judaism, Citizenship & Democracy, Yehuda Kurtzer explores the responsibilities of citizenship and the calculus through which we understand both the burdens and the privileges of belonging.
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