Save the Dates March 14 – Dani Segal Beyond Cynicism: Fostering Mutual Responsibility It’s About Time ——- Writing Our Own Story: A Hidden Narrative of the Book of Genesis Healing our Society After the Insurrection ——- Talking about Israel: Missteps and Opportunities The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity ——– The Books of the Bible That We Never Read but Are Filled With Gold When We Do: Micah Goodman on the Books of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah November 15 and December 6, 2020 ——– Deuteronomy: The Last Speech of Moses View the full series here August 11: The Failure of Deuteronomy’s Revolution ——– Yom Ha’Shoah, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut in the Age of Covid-19 ——- Reflections on Dystopia Rachel Korazim March 2020 – May 2021 March 2, 2021 – Yehuda Amichai June 24 – Languages May 14 – Forbidden Games March 29 – Poems Around the Seder Table II ——– November 2019 Loyalty and Critique in Modern Israeli Literature Shabbat, Nov 2 Nov 4 | 8:00 – 9:30 pm Selected Lectures of Hartman Scholars at Temple Emanuel – Listen Now! Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood 2020 Hartman Institute Summer Study Monday June 29 – Thursday, July 23 View select recordings from Hartman’s month-long festival of ideas and learning here Learn more about the Hartman Institute’s Community Leadership Summer Retreat in Israel (CLP). Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the Community Leadership Program (CLP) Summer Program at the Shalom Hartman Institute, including who attends, free time, a typical program day and more, are available on the Hartman website. Questions? Please contact Trip Chairs Amy Klein and Brian Lefsky with any questions, and to let us know if you’re planning to come with us to Israel this summer!
Hartman Learning Initiative
In Newton and In Israel
Judaism, Citizenship & Democracy
October 18-30
Hartman@Home fall learning began with a two-week symposium focusing on the key civic issues facing the Jewish community today, bringing a Jewish lens to the civic obligations, issues, and leadership needed in this moment of global pandemic and unprecedented polarization.
Scholars from the Shalom Hartman Institute at Temple Emanuel
Sundays at 10 am
April 11 – TBA, pending confirmation of scholar availability
Sunday, February 2021
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Sunday, March 14, 2021 | 10:00 – 11:15 am
October 2020
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Sunday, January 2021
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February 2020
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Sunday, January 2021
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June and August 2020
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August 18: Renewal and Destruction
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August 25: Conclusion: Moses’s Final Word
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May 3, 2020
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April 5, 2020
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Tuesdays and Thursdays | 2:00 – 3:15 pm
Israeli Poetry with Rachel Korazim and
the Global Jewish Community
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Sponsored by Temple Emanuel
Sponsored by friends at Temple Emanuel and our Hartman Learning Initiative.
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Sponsored by friends at Temple Emanuel, Connie Giesser and Andrea & Arthur Waldstein, and our Hartman Learning Initiative.
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Sponsored by Temple Emanuel
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A Day of Tidings – An Old Story that Refuses to Die
From the Summit of Mt. Scopus
Is it Okay to Say the Word Nakba?
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Contemporary Israeli Poets in the Footsteps of the Prophets
Hartman Video Lecture Series (VLS)
Study with Hartman Institute Scholars in a Video Lecture Series
Hartman Institute Summer Retreat
All Together Now: Jewish Ideas for this Moment
Four special sessions were held for Temple Emanuel participants.
You can view the recordings here. 
The Hartman Institute describes its Community Leadership Summer Retreat as “an annual weeklong seminar dealing with major questions facing Judaism in the modern age. The program, in operation for more than 20 years, takes place at the Institute’s beautiful campus in the heart of Jerusalem and draws scores of North American lay leaders from across the continent and denominational spectrum.”