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Shalom Hartman Institute, 11 Gedalyahu Alon Street Jerusalem 93113 Tel: +972 2 567 5320 | Fax: +972 2 561 1913 www.hartman.org.il | [email protected] 4:30 PM – 5 PM – Break and Refreshments 5 PM – 6:30 PM Opening Plenary 3 PM – 4:30 PM Roundtables

What is Social Justice? Dr. Donniel Hartman, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute Name of Organization Session Topic MK Shelly Yachimovich, Chair of the Labor Party Chair Has the Social Justice Project in Israel Failed? Elul Can We Reach Self-Actualization Amid Social Prof. Avi Sagi, Shalom Hartman Institute and Bar Ilan University Roni Yavin, Gaps? Nadav Berman The Significance of Mordechai Kaplan’s Contribu- Muki Tsur, Researcher, Historian, and Educator and Member of Kibbutz Ein Gev tion to Contemporary Israeli Discourse Chair: Dov Elbaum, Shalom Hartman Institute The Institute for Research – Limor Safrai, The Kibbutz is Still an Answer: Cooperation as an HaKibbutz HaDati Michael Engine for Narrowing Social Gaps Ben-Admon 6:30 PM – 7 PM – Break and Light Refreshments The Secular in Itai Tashtash, “Culture for All” – Culture as a Tool for Creating 7 PM-8:30 PM – Parallel Sessions Jerusalem Or Sanderovich Community Oranim Academic College, Jewish-Feminist Language as a Vital Resource for Dvora Evron Niggun Nashim Social Justice in Israel Session A: Who is Leading the Revolution? Session D:Justice and Land The Institute for Zionist Eliran Zered, Social Justice: And the Wolf Lay Down with the Chair: Efrat Degani-Toperoff, Bema’aglei Tzedek Chair: Amotz Asa-el, Wall Street Journal Strategies Adi Arbel, Roi Lamb? Social Justice from the Perspective of Itzik Elrov, Leader of the Social Justice Movement and Shalom Hartman Institute Yarum Zionist Thought Sawsan Zaher, Adv, Director of the Social, Hili Tropper, Principal of Branco Weiss in Ramla HaMeorer, The Center “And the land shall not be sold forever” Economic, and Education Rights Unit at and Founder of Bema’aglei Tzedek Adalah for Informal Learning and Eyal Tartzitzki The Dismantling of the Israel Land Itzik Shmuli, Chair of the Student Union in Israel Training Administration and the Erasure of Public Housing Betzalel Smotrich, Regavim Movement Moshe Karif, Director of Tehuda and the Israel Religious Action Gender, Modesty, and the Public Space in Israel Anat Hoffman Session B: Jewish Social Justice Policy Mizrahi Coalition Center General (res.) Uri Sagie Teva Ivri and Mirkam “Israeli Shabbat” – Shabbat as a Basis for Building Chair: Dr. Ariel Picard, Educational Director of Einat Kramer a Common and Sustainable Culture in Israel the Be’eri Program, Shalom Hartman Institute Dr. Dror Eydar, Researcher and Journalist, Session E: Does the Public Space Kerem Hava Pinhas- The Public Roles of Poets Belong to the Public? Cohen Yisrael Hayom Newspaper Chair: Dr. Orit Avnery, Shalom Hartman Midrashet Ein Prat Social Justice from God’s Perspective Dr. Meir Buzaglo, Department of Philosophy Dror Bondi at Hebrew University and Chair of the Tikkun Institute Movement Rabbi Uri Ayalon, Director of the Yerush- The Gandel Institute and Work Relationships and Economic Justice Eitan Gur-Aryeh almim Movement, Leader of the Cam- Bema’aglei Tzedek Prof. Yossi Yona, Ben Gurion University, Advisory Council on Social Justice paign Against the Exclusion of Women, The Educational Center in Yedidya Hazani, The Public Space: Public Property or No-Man’s “Lo Metzunzeret”, and Rabbi of Yotzer Or Hannaton Rabbi Yoav Andy Land? Bambi Sheleg, Editor-in-Chief of Eretz Acheret Congregation in Talpiot Magazine Itim Rabbi Dr. Shaul Justice and Burial: Shall the Two Go Together? Nofar Danan, Chair of the Forum for Pub- Farber, lic Transportation in the Haredi Sector Idit Nachman Session C: The Army of the People: Shai Horowitz, Editor, Hamevaser Newspaper Kolot “Know from where you came and to where you are Challenges of the Melting Pot Shlomo Fuchs Channa Pinchasi, Shalom Hartman Institute headed” : On Dreams and Visions in Light of the Past Chair: Brig-Gen (res.) Yaakov Castel, Shatil Shalom Hartman Institute Avi Dabush, Social Change as a Jewish Act Session F: Gender Equality in the Ronit Ehrenfreud-Cohen, Chair of the Prof. Avia Spivak, Public Square and in Divorce Stav Shaffir People’s Movement for the Advancement Batya Kahana-Dror Tevel B’tzedek Rabbi Micah Judaism and Economic Justice: Free Market or Free of Equality in Israel Chair: , Adv, Director Odenheimer People – Selections from the Babylonian Brig-Gen (res.) Rabbi Moshe Hager-Lau, of Mavoi Satum Prof. Rachel Elior, Department of Jewish Tmura – Israeli Judaism Rabbi Prof. Does Ecologic Justice (Advanced Standardiza- Head of the Pre-Army Academy in Yatir Philosophy, Hebrew University Yair Lifshitz, tion) Necessarily Create Social Justice (High General (res.) Elazar Stern, Chair of the Hila Ben Dor Costs of Life and Development)? Fund for Holocaust Victims in Israel Rabbi Avi Gisser, Head of the Ministry of Religious Education and Rabbi of Ofra Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum, Shalom Hartman Institute and Tel Aviv University MK Schneller, Kadima