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Mazal tov to R. Yitz Greenberg, Senior Scholar-in-Residence at Hadar and President of the J.J. Greenberg Instittute for the Advancement of Jewish Life, for winning a National Jewish Book Award! The Jewish Book Council awarded a Life­time Achieve­ment Award on the occa­sion of the pub­li­ca­tion of his lat­est book, The Tri­umph of Life: A Nar­ra­tive The­ol­o­gy of Judaism (The Jew­ish Pub­li­ca

Hadar is excited to announce that Rabbi Tali Adler will write our 5785 weekly D'var Torah. Subscribe now to receive weekly emails beginning with Parashat Bereishit. R. Adler’s weekly Dvar Torah will highlight the emotional resonances of the text, stories, characters, and themes in the Torah portion. Drawing on a range of classical and modern commentators, these essays will mine the text for

Already in the wake of the destruction of the First Temple, there was a fast in the fourth month, the month we now call Tammuz. This may have been connected to the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by the Babylonians on the 9th day of the fourth month, an event and date preserved in Jeremiah 39:2 and 52:6-7. But no day of the month is prescribed for this fast when it is mentioned in Zekhariah 8

R. Nadav Berger makes the case for why we should say Hallel on Yom Ha'Atzma'ut, even in times of distress (in Hebrew).

This Shavuot, we're delighted to offer a new resource for your late-night learning from Project Zug, Hadar's online, one-on-one learning program! When you take a course with Project Zug, you and your havruta (learning partner) get a new easy-to-use, guided source sheet each week. This Shavuot companion includes short excerpts of some of our favorite Project Zug courses, such as "Theology of Psalms

Yeshivat Hadar’s longstanding practice is to recite full Hallel on Yom Ha-Atzma’ut with a berakhah. However, this year is unlike any other year we have experienced. Why and how should we recite Hallel at a time when redemption feels so far away?

Rabbi Ethan Tucker's eulogy in memory of his step-father.

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