Identity/Crisis
Shalom Hartman Institute
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
Episodes
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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
May 15, 2020 • 31min
#11: Being home
Featuring write and journalist Elissa Strauss and Aliza Kline of OneTable.
Mentioned in this episode: https://onetable.org/soloshabbat
May 7, 2020 • 50min
#10: The Hasidim of Netflix and the Israelis of HBO
Featuring Joseph Cedar (HBO's Our Boys, Footnote), Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto), and Shayna Weiss (Brandeis).
Mentioned in this episode:
Naomi's review of Netflix's Unorthodox: https://bit.ly/2YIryQv
Shayna's review of One of Us: https://bit.ly/3ba9Vf7
Article on the growth of Israeli TV in America: https://bit.ly/2zhsuRa
May 1, 2020 • 43min
#9: Homeland at Home
Featuring Tomer Persico, Sigalit Ur, and Yehuda Kurtzer.
Apr 23, 2020 • 41min
#8: Teaching Judaism at home is hard. Here's what you can do.
Featuring Rabbi Ethan Tucker (Hadar), Stephanie Ives (Beit Rabban Day School), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Hartman).
Mentioned in this episode:
Shalom Hartman Institute's online iEngage class: http://static.hartman.org.il/dev/uploads/2020/03/iEngage5-_Online-learning-flyer-0320_final.pdf?mc_cid=a64a52da4b&mc_eid=18e469e147&mc_cid=a090cea215&mc_eid=%5bUNIQID%5d
Apr 14, 2020 • 38min
#7: No mosque for Ramadan, no church for Easter, no shul for Passover. Now what?
Featuring Rev. Laura Everett (Massachusetts Council of Churches), Maggie Siddiqi (Center for American Progress), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute).
Mentioned in this episode: https://religionnews.com/2020/04/09/a-holy-week-disrupted-by-death-answered-by-an-honest-easter/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/opinions/coronavirus-faith-leaders-showing-the-way/index.html
Apr 5, 2020 • 36min
#6: Cooking for a different kind of seder
Mentioned in this episode:
Joan Nathan cookbooks: https://amzn.to/39JoGon
Adeena Sussman's braised cabbage: https://bit.ly/2V7RDF4
Huevos haminados: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haminados
Story about Todos the Roman: https://bit.ly/2yBfAND
Apr 3, 2020 • 34min
#5: Can the Jewish social safety net adapt?
This episode features Yehuda Kurtzer of Shalom Hartman, David Rosenn of the Hebrew Free Loan Society, and Joanna Samuels of the Manny Cantor Center.
Texts and articles discussed in this episode:
Dahlia Lithwick in Slate: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-will-supercharge-american-inequality/608419/
Derek Thompson in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-will-supercharge-american-inequality/608419/
Talmud Ketubot 67b: https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.67b.2?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
