Symposium Keynote: Judaism, Citizenship & Democracy

Yehuda Kurtzer explores the responsibilities of citizenship and the calculus through which we understand both the burdens and privileges of belonging.
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Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute and a leading thinker and author on the major challenges facing the Jewish people. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, the co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, and the host of the Identity/Crisis podcast. Under his leadership, the Shalom Hartman Institute has grown significantly as a leading think tank and educational center for the North American Jewish community,

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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