David Hartman: Spiritual Opportunities and Dangers of Halakha, Lecture 2

David Hartman, founding President of Shalom Hartman Institute, will focus on the clash of modernity and traditional Judaism in his fall-winter 2009 series of public lectures, which began in October and will run through December 2009. This is the third lecture in the series.

David Hartman: The Contingent Feature of the Jewish View of History – a masterful lecture by David Hartman, co-director and founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, Israel, given July 6, 2009, to about 100 Jewish community leaders from North America in Jerusalem at the Hartman Institute for the Summer Lay Leadership Retreat, a week-long program of lessons, lectures, seminars, tours, and study about Judaism, pluralism, Jerusalem, Israel and more.

David Hartman, Lindenbaum-Pomrenze Lecture 2, 7-April-2008 – Jerusalem, Israel, Shalom Hartman Institute: Morality Confronts the Halakhic Tradition: Rethinking Traditional Perspectives on Women, Converts, and Non-Jews

David Hartman: Morality Confronts the Halakhic Tradition: Rethinking the Traditional Perspectives on Women, Converts, and Non-Jews

Lindenbaum-Pomrenze Lecture Series, Spring 2008, 24 March 2008, Final lecture

David Hartman: Challenges facing Modern Jewry in Israel and the Diaspora (Pomrenze 6) – Sixth and final lecture in Pomrenze Winter 2009 lecture series, in which Rabbi Prof. David Hartman, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, talked about the philosophy of Eliezer Berkovits, and how he struggled with halakha that wasn’t good for women, among many other things. This has been an amazing series whose findings will be collected for a book; but video viewers will have the information first. Challenging thinking for Jewish thinkers, Jewish philosophers, Jewish Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and secular Jews.

David Hartman (Pomrenze 5): Challenges for Modern Jewry in Israel, Diaspora – Eliezer Berkovits, Jerusalem, Israel, Shalom Hartman Institute

Rabbi Prof. David Hartman, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, talks about how Jewish religious extremism, and even “mainstream” Orthodoxy have grown in modern times as more modern, rational movements have struggled.

Challenges Facing Modern Jewry in Israel, Diaspora – David Hartman Pomrenze Lecture 4 – March 2, 2009, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel – http://hartman.org.il for more videos and learning from David Hartman and Shalom Hartman Institute's pluralistic Jeiwsh thinkers and teachers.