Hartman@Home two-week symposium exploring the key civic issues facing the Jewish community today.
For two weeks leading up to the U.S. elections, as we kick-off our Hartman@Home fall programming, Hartman scholars brought calm and reason — along with passion and insight — to the key civic issues facing the Jewish community today.
Together we brought a Jewish lens to the civic obligations, issues, and leadership needed in this moment of global pandemic and unprecedented polarization.
From October 19-30, 2020 we added Jewish learning to the election fervor with experts on religion and law, politics and morality, the hermeneutics of Jewish political thought, and Israeli perspectives on the U.S. election season.
Our two-week symposium included day and evening salons, panels, book talks, and deeper learning opportunities, plus Con/Text, a bite-sized take on the role of the citizen in a democracy featuring a different Hartman scholar each day.
Hartman@Home programing is always free and open to the public. To support further programming like this, please consider making a donation to the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Jan 16, 2025
Yehuda Kurtzer explores the responsibilities of citizenship and the calculus through which we understand both the burdens and privileges of belonging.
Jan 16, 2025
Short video insights on what matters right now from top Hartman scholars in Israel and North America.
Jan 16, 2025
Instead of focusing on what divides us, Elana Stein Hain, Avi Helfand and Rivka Press Schwartz address our shared foundational questions.
Jan 16, 2025
Tomer Persico leads a conversation with Masua Sagiv and Shraga Bar-On on what American democracy looks like from the Israeli point of view.
Jan 16, 2025
Mijal Bitton in conversation with Yascha Mounk about the seeming breakdown of truth and faith in this polarized moment.
Jan 16, 2025
Yuval Levin and Rivka Press Schwartz discuss how we can strengthen American democracy by investing in its institutions.
Jan 16, 2025
Avi Helfand explores the methodologies of American Jewish advocacy around religious liberty controversies.
Jan 16, 2025
Author Eitan Hersh and Stacy Burdett explore how to channel energy away from political hobbyism and toward empowering values.
Jan 16, 2025
Christine Hayes discusses how the study of primary Jewish texts contributes to contemporary political and moral debates.
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President, Shalom Hartman Institute
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President, Shalom Hartman Institute
Vice President, West Coast and Senior Faculty
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Rosh Beit Midrash and Senior Research Fellow
