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Jul 28, 2023
Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi

The Wounded Jewish Psyche and the Divided Israeli Soul

AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg
Jul 27, 2023
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake

Under the Shadow of Unreasonableness

Saeed Qaq/NurPhoto via AP
Jul 27, 2023
Yehuda Kurtzer, Matti Friedman
Identity/Crisis

Zion’s Roads are in Mourning

Matan Golan / Sipa USA via AP Images
Jul 21, 2023
Shoshana Cohen

Shoshana Cohen

Feminism & Jewish Theology: A Case Study

Jul 19, 2023
Lauren Berkun

Lauren Berkun

RTS 2023 Closing Siyyum

Image: screenshot
Jul 19, 2023
Donniel Hartman

Donniel Hartman

Israel and the Liberal Jew

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Jul 19, 2023
Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

On Hierarchy and Social Equality and the Liberal Jew

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Jul 19, 2023
Ed Feinstein

High Holiday Sermon Seminar with Rabbi Ed Feinstein

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Jul 19, 2023
Amy Bernstein

High Holiday Sermon Seminar with Rabbi Amy Bernstein

Jul 19, 2023
Tani Frank, Masua Sagiv, Gilad Kariv

Judaism & State: Navigating Israel’s Future in Light of Judicial Overhaul

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Jul 19, 2023
Lauren Berkun

Lauren Berkun

You Shall Be Holy: Holiness and the Liberal Jew

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Jul 19, 2023
Melila Hellner-Eshed

Melila Hellner-Eshed

Shabbat, Shechinah, and the Liberal Jew

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Jul 19, 2023
Micah Goodman

Micah Goodman

Sacrifice and the Liberal Jew

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Jul 19, 2023
Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi

This Israeli Moment

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Jul 18, 2023
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake

The Reasonableness Clause

©Photo by Matan Golan / Sipa USA via AP Images
Jul 18, 2023
Donniel Hartman

Donniel Hartman

Creed and the Liberal Jew

Image: screenshot
Jul 18, 2023
Yehuda Kurtzer

Yehuda Kurtzer

Welcome to RTS 2023

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Jul 17, 2023
Yehuda Kurtzer, Gali Cooks
Identity/Crisis

The Jewish Leadership Pipeline Problem

©onlyyouqj/stock.adobe.com
Jul 12, 2023
Michael (Avi) Helfand

Michael (Avi) Helfand

Groff v. DeJoy is the Rare Supreme Court Decision that Every Jew Can Celebrate

Steve Petteway/Collection of SCOTUS via JTA
Jul 11, 2023
Yehuda Kurtzer, Donniel Hartman
Identity/Crisis

A Celebration of Leadership at the Shalom Hartman Institute

Dana Bar Siman Tov
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A Choosing People

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How Do You Say Tikkun Olam in Hebrew? Israel and International Development

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Leon A. Morris
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In Defense of Surrender in Liberal Jewish Life

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Is There a God in This Halakhah?

Paul Schmitt, Blue study No. 1, 2022

Yofi Tirosh

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Civil Law vs. Halakhah in Israeli Courts

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Yehuda Kurtzer

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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

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Ne’emanut: Placing Relationships at the Center

Image: Kurt Hoffman-Stabile Diffusion

Micah Goodman

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Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It

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Mara Benjamin

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Reading Psalms as the Water Rises

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James Loeffler

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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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