HARTMAN VIDEO LECTURE SERIES Hartman Video Lecture Series

The Video Lecture Series enable rabbis to bring the scholarship and resources of the Hartman Institute into their congregations, fostering high-level adult education. Combining lectures from Institute faculty on video with in-person hevruta study facilitated by local rabbis, these series enable year-round learning on pressing issues facing the Jewish community. Each volume includes 8-10 video lectures on DVD or USB, student sourcebooks with primary texts, recommended background readings, and a leader’s guide with helpful lecture and text summaries and discussion questions. The Hartman Institute provides ongoing support for local faculty in the form of webinars and one-on-one consultation.

The Video Lecture Series enhance the knowledge and engagement of lay leaders, expanding their ability to respond to key questions facing the Jewish people and contemporary society.

Role of Rabbi/Educator The Video Lecture Series and accompanying curricular study materials are designed to be used by a local rabbi or educator with a group of lay leaders in a weekly or monthly study program. The rabbi/educator serves as the teacher, utilizing the materials and lectures as best suited for the local community. Participants prepare for the lecture by studying the texts and reading the supplementary materials, either in a separate class session or as the fi rst hour of a longer seminar.

Hartman Video Lecture Series Catalogue

Engaging Israel: Foundations for a New Relationship

Going deeper than politics or advocacy, the first Engaging Israel series reframes the discussion about the enduring significance of the State of Israel for contemporary Jews worldwide. This curriculum elevates the conversation about Israel by rooting it in Jewish values and ideas rather than in response to crisis, equipping individuals and communities with a quintessentially Jewish values-based vocabulary to define and articulate why Israel can and should be fundamental to their Jewish identity. The series explores key questions, such as: What are the benefits of Jewish sovereignty? How should a Jewish state exercise military power ethically? How can Israel create and maintain a Jewish democracy? What values should a Jewish state embody? Why should American Jews care about Israel, and what should be the nature of our relationship with the Jewish state?

• From Crisis to Covenant • Religion and Peoplehood • Sovereignty and Identity • Power and Powerlessness • War and Occupation • Morality on the Battlefield • Jewish and Democratic State • Religious Pluralism and Human Rights • Values Nation

Each unit includes a lecture by Donniel Hartman followed by an interview with subject experts. iEngage 2.0 – The Tribes of Israel: A Shared Homeland for a Divided People

What is the significance of the State of Israel as a Jewish public sphere? The focus of this second Engaging Israel series is to confront the challenge of creating a Jewish and democratic public space in the modern State of Israel—a shared common space for a people divided along “tribal” affiliations: religious, ideological, national, and geographic. The Tribes of Israel begins a conversation to restructure the relationship between the collective and the individual tribes that comprise Israel—a relationship where tribal affiliations, convictions, and rights are balanced against collective consciousness and identity.

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Dilemmas of Faith

In an age of radical polarization in modern society, with a rise in religious fundamentalism on the one hand and a rise of atheism on the other, how does Jewish tradition approach dilemmas of faith? In this series, Hartman scholars explore the foundational issue of faith, engaging in broad and deep analysis of some of the many dilemmas that faith in the modern world raises. Based on classical Jewish tradition and contemporary Jewish thought and life, the Dilemmas of Faith curriculum addresses the big DILEMMAS OF FAITH questions raised by the intersection of faith and reason, faith and history, faith and politics, and the faith The Shalom Hartman Institute Lecture Series A project of the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought experience. Leaders Guide

• Donniel Hartman - What Does it Mean to Believe? The • Lauren Berkun - What Does it Mean to Live a Life of Challenge of the Rational and the Reasonable Faith in an Age of Divine Hiddenness? • Micah Goodman - What is the Redeeming Idea of • Micah Goodman - A Biblical View of Redeeming Monotheism? Personalities • Lauren Berkun - Where is God in the Midst of Suffering? • Yehuda Kurtzer - The Role of Ambivalence in Faith • Donniel Hartman - God, Evil and the Book of Job • Melila Hellner-Eshed - What is the Faith Experience? • Yehuda Kurtzer - Grappling with God’s Departure from • Donniel Hartman - Do I Have to Believe in God to Be a History Good Jew?

Peoplehood and Its Role and Significance in Jewish Life

The idea of Jewish Peoplehood—its complex origins, its implications, and how it might be sustained—is an issue of wide concern in the Jewish community today. The concept of a “Jewish collective” appears at odds with a contemporary ethos of intense individualism. Anxiety about a dwindling sense of Peoplehood increasingly defines the agenda for Israeli agencies and Jewish institutions and federations worldwide. The meanings and implications of Jewish Peoplehood impact directly on nearly all of the central questions and tensions of Judaism and modern life. In this series, Hartman faculty consider of some of the tensions that Peoplehood raises, both in classical Jewish tradition and in contemporary Jewish thought and life. • Donniel Hartman - The Meaning and • Yehuda Kurtzer - Peoplehood and

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The Other in Jewish Tradition: Challenges and Opportunities

For much of history, Jews were the ultimate “outsiders” in the Diaspora. Today, in an era in which The "Other" in Jewish Tradition: Challenges And Opportunities The Shalom Hartman Institute Jews are “insiders,” it is a moral imperative to reflect on Jewish attitudes and approaches to “others” Lecture Series on DVD Volume 2 both within and outside of the Jewish community. This series explores Jewish ethical traditions about Challenges And Opportunities The "Other" in Jewish Tradition: the treatment of strangers, attitudes towards people of other faiths, the struggle with Volume 2 The Shalom Hartman Institute Lecture Series on DVD pluralism in a diverse Jewish community, treatment of women and minorities, and the

The “Other”1 in Jewish Tradition: tension between the particular and the universal. Challenges and Opportunities • Donniel Hartman - The Insider/Outsider: Tensions in The Jewish Tradition

• Donniel Hartman - The Jew and the Non-Jew: The Meaning and Consequences of Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman The Insider/Outsider: Tensions in the Jewish Tradition

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Leadership and Crisis: Jewish Resources and Responses Leadership and Crisis: Jewish Resources and Responses The Shalom Hartman Institute Drawing upon centuries of Jewish scholarship—from Biblical sources to Holocaust literature—this Lecture Series on DVD Volume 1 volume suggests Jewish responses to the challenges posed by geopolitical and economic crises. Jewish Resources and Responses Leadership and Crisis: The Shalom Hartman Institute Lecture Series on DVD • Donniel Hartman - Jewish Responses to Crisis • Donniel Hartman - Response to Crisis: Reestablishing Moral Awareness Leadership1 and Crisis: Jewish Resources and • Micah Goodman - The Crisis of Destruction: The Biblical Prophetic Perspective Responses • Micah Goodman - Personal Crisis and Theological Audacity: The Book of Job

Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman Jewish Responses to Crisis מנהיגות ומשבר Authority of Crisis the and Talmud the of Sages The - Goodman Micah • משאבים ותשובות ביהדות NTSC 4:3 סדרת הרצאות של מכון הרטמן Hasidismב-די.וי.די. & Zohar Crisis: to Responses Collective and Individual - Hellner-Eshed Melila • • Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi - God After Auschwitz: Jewish Theological Dilemmas • Donniel Hartman - Moving Beyond Crisis: Reclaiming the Primacy of Ethics

For additional information on any of the series, contact Rabbi Lauren Berkun, Director of Rabbinic and Synagogue Programs, at [email protected]. To place an order, go to www.shalomhartman.org/video. www.shalomhartman.org