Shalom Hartman Institute: Creative Jewish Thinking from Israel

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Fascinating column of obituaries

Livecasting from Shalom Hartman Institute in jerusalem, Israel

Swapping live terrorists for dead soldiers - Los Angeles Times

Israel at 60: Unfinished Business

Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Co-Director of Jerusalem's Shalom Hartman Institute, discusses the successes and future of Israel as it reaches 60 years old on May 8, 2008.

Krister Stendahl, theologian, former Hartman Institute director, dies at 86

Stendahl was one of the 20th century`s pioneers of Jewish-Christian dialogue and helped run annual Institute Theology conference for Jews, Christians and Muslims

Make room for Israeli Arabs

By Avi Sagi

The challenge and crisis of conversion in Israel

The challenge and crisis of conversion in Israel (31/03/2008) A major in the Israeli Army came to me recently and said, "Rabbi Hartman, I need your help. Three years ago I adopted my first child.

Don't invoke Amalek's name lightly

Hartman Institute Explores the Holidays: Purim

There's a lot more to Purim than masks and reverlry. Take a deeper look at this most fascinating holiday with the scholars of the Shalom hartman Institute of Jerusalem, Israel

International condemnation good for Israel

My blood boiled when I read the headlines. I'm sure yours did too. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the UN, as well as an official European Union statement, and various other world officials and bodies, condemned Israel's use of force in Gaza as "excessive and disproportionate."

Hartman Institute scholars meet with President Shimon Peres

A delegation from Shalom Hartman Institute gave President Shimon Peres the first Hebrew volume of "The Jewish Political Tradition" in a visit to the President's Residence.

When an earthquake is not just an earthquake

People who speak in the name of God, with great certainty as to how God acts in history, are expressing a vulgarity of arrogance, of presuming to understand how God acts in history - an understanding all of us know we clearly lack

The Iranian bomb: bane or boon?

Arab national regimes, once quite content to allow radical Islam to spearhead their war against Israel for them, now find themselves within fatal range of the nuclear monster they've helped create

Hartman Institute holds special seminar for Jewish Funders Conference

Hartman Institute holds special seminar for Jewish Funders Conference in March

Choosing the ideal U.S. president for Israel

For us Israelis, and for many Jews around the world, the identity of the president of the United States is understood as an issue of existential significance.

Leibowitz and Heschel: Prayer and relationship of God to modern individual

How Leibowitz and Heschel try to bring themselves a better understanding of the Jewish God in the 20th century

"Like a Newborn Baby": Intermarriage and Conversion (07/02/2008)

Since Rabbi Uziel wrote these words, the rate of intermarriage has increased, and with it - the debate surrounding giyyur.

Moshe Rabbeinu and the Winograd Commission

Israeli politicians would do well to learn a thing or two from Moshe as the Winograd Commission report comes out: a man humble enough to listen to others, but not so humble he can no longer lead

Return education to Israeli priorities

As we enter 2008, while there is still a sense of ongoing physical threats and existential dangers, there is no doubt the State of Israel has turned the corner in our quest to insure our physical survival.

Max Rosenbaum, 85, Australia, father of 'Crown Heights pogrom' victim, dies, Jan. 3 « In My Heart.org

Max Rosenbaum, 85, whose life was changed irrevocably after his son's 1991 death in race riots in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Crown Heights neighborhood, died Friday, Jan. 3, 2007, of a heart attack in Melbourne, Australia.

Ahikam Amichai, 20, David Rubin, 21, Israel, off-duty soldiers, murdered on hike, Dec. 28

Ahikam Amichai, 20, and David Rubin, 21, off-duty Israeli Army commandos on a recreational hike near their homes in the Hebron hills, were murdered by Palestinians, Dec. 28, 2007.

Notable Jewish deaths of 2007: Year in review « In My Heart.org

Here is the In My Heart list of notable 2007 Jewish deaths as reported in the trade media, New York Times, Canadian Press and elsewhere. This list certainly isn't complete. First of all, we have left out most of the names you'll find elsewhere on In My Heart.

Talia Klein, 13, U.S., horseback rider, dies in Panama plane crash, Dec. 24 « In My Heart.org

Michael B. Klein, 37, an ultra-successful businessman, and his daughter Talia Klein, 13, were killed in the crash of their private plane over a remote spot in Panama earlier this week.

Saadia Marciano, 58, Israel, Morocco, 'Black Panther' leader, Dec. 21 « In My Heart.org

Saadia Marciano, 58, a former member of the Israeli Knesset who got his start in public life as a leader of the radical "Black Panthers" movement of poor Sephardic Jews, died Dec. 21, 2007, in a Jerusalem hospital, reports Jewish obituaries website In My Heart

Holocaust survivor, artist Rosemarie Koczy, dies at 68, created searing imagery

Rosemarie Koczy, 68, who survived a childhood in German concentration camps and later spent years creating searing art infused with images of Holocaust victims, died from breast cancer Dec. 12, 2007.

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