Identity/Crisis
In a frenzied media cycle, Identity/Crisis creates better conversations about the issues facing contemporary Jewish life. Host Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, talks with leading thinkers to unpack current events affecting Jewish communities in North America, Israel, and around the world, revealing the core Jewish values underlying the issues that matter most to you.JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST FOR MORE HARTMAN IDEAS
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Jul 27, 2020 • 46min
#21: One Month, 20,000 Hours of Jewish Education
Featuring Yehuda Kurtzer, Rachel Jacoby-Rosenfield, Lauren Berkun, Justus Baird, and Justin Pines.
To watch classes from All Together Now, go to summer.hartman.org.il
Jul 20, 2020 • 48min
#20: Idealized American Pasts, Utopian Israeli Futures
Featuring Rivka Press Schwartz (SAR / Hartman), Anshel Pfeffer (Haaretz), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Hartman).
Mentioned in this episode:
Yehuda Kurtzer, "Memory Malpractice:" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/memory-malpractice-beinart
Anshel Pfeffer, "Peter Beinart's One State Solution Sounds So Perfect It's Practically Utopian:" https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-peter-beinart-s-one-state-solution-sounds-so-perfect-it-s-practically-utopian-1.8983601
Jul 13, 2020 • 49min
#19: The Rise of Alternative Jewish Learning Spaces
Featuring Benay Lappe (Svara), Arielle Korman (Ammud), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Hartman)
Jul 5, 2020 • 1h 11min
#18: The New Jewish Political Canon
Featuring Julie Cooper (Tel Aviv University) Shaul Magid (Shalom Hartman Institute / Dartmouth University), Daniel Kurtzer (School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University), Sara Hirschhorn (Northwestern University), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute).
To purchase The New Jewish Canon: https://www.amazon.com/New-Jewish-Canon-Emunot-Philosophy/dp/1644693607
Jun 23, 2020 • 56min
#17: Mikvah, Fertility, and the Pandemic
Featuring Ruth Balinsky Friedman (Ohev Sholom), Carrie Bornstein (Mayyim Hayyim), Rachel Rosenthal (JTS), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute)
To register for Hartman's summer programming, go to https://www.hartman.org.il/
Jun 18, 2020 • 48min
#16: The State of Jewish Journalism
This episode features Jodi Rudoren (Forward), Philissa Cramer (JTA), and Yehuda Kurtzer.
Jun 11, 2020 • 48min
#15: Facing Annexation
This episode features Tamara Cofman Wittes (Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution), Michael Koplow (Israel Policy Forum), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute).
Jun 4, 2020 • 49min
#14: American Jewish Communities After George Floyd
Featuring Ginna Green, Isaiah Rothstein, and Yehuda Kurtzer.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Danielle S. Allen, "Our Declaration": https://www.amazon.com/Our-Declaration-Reading-Independence-Equality-ebook/dp/B00FPT5KYW
- ‘Believe us’: Black Jews respond to the George Floyd protests, in their own words: https://www.jta.org/2020/05/31/united-states/believe-us-black-jews-respond-to-the-george-floyd-protests-in-their-own-words
May 27, 2020 • 37min
#13: Joshua Foer on the Future of Digital Judaism
Mentioned in today's episode:
https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do?language=en
Sukkah City https://forward.com/articles/132454/forward-50-2010/
Moonwalking https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301277/moonwalking-with-einstein-by-joshua-foer/
For more information on all of Hartman's digital summer programming, go to bit.ly/HartmanSummer
May 21, 2020 • 52min
#12: What Comes Next for Denominational Judaism?
A conversation between Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Union for Reform Judaism), Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal (Rabbinical Assembly / United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute).
Register now for "The Revelation Will Be Digitized" on May 27, a virtual conversation about the future of online Jewish education. Joshua Ladon, Hartman’s Director of West Coast Education, will host Miriam Heller-Stern (HUC-JIR), Daniel Septimus (Sefaria), and Lisa Colton (Darim Online) to explore the questions that emerge for Jewish education in an era of COVID and Zoom. Register at https://updates.hartman.org.il/shavuot-2020.php
