Episodes
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Elana Stein Hain: When Diaspora and Israel Challenge One Another – Reading Megillat Esther in Light of Today
As we approach the holiday of Purim, join us in person at Temple Emanuel as we welcome back one of our favorite Hartman scholars, Dr. Elana Stein Hain, and explore what we can learn from reading Megillat Esther in light of today. The Purim story centers on the Jews of Persia and its empire, yet...
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Pathways to Hope: A Conversation with Young Israeli Changemakers - December 8, 2025
Listen to Hartman’s Ronit Heyd, Vice President and Director of the Center for Israeli & Jewish Identity, in conversation with participants from the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Hazon program visiting from Israel Israel — Noi Schwartz, Ayala Dahlan and Yonathan Machlis. Since October 7, it has been...
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Micah Goodman: Global Chaos – The Forces Undermining the World Order - May 5, 2025
We all get, every day, that we are living in no ordinary time. That we are living in historically tumultuous times. In America. The world. The financial markets. Universities. Alliances that are upturned. America’s role in the international order since World War II upturned. In Israel. Its...
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Elana Stein Hain: An American in Jerusalem - Israeli Power and Vulnerability Up Close - February 25, 2025
Since 1948, we are in a rare moment in Jewish history, one in which we possess actual power but retain real vulnerability. Join Dr. Elana Stein Hain, who is spending this year in Israel, as she explores how power and vulnerability intersect both in American and Israeli Jewish life with an eye...
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Micah Goodman: The Real Reason Behind Israel’s Success in Dismantling Iran’s Proxies - February 16, 2025
Our Temple Emanuel Hartman Learning Initiative continues with an online program Sunday morning, February 16 with Dr. Micah Goodman, who will join us via zoom from Israel. Over the past year, Iran’s network of terror proxies – their ‘Axis of Resistance’ – has collapsed. Scholar, public…
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Donniel Hartman: Understanding Israel Today and Imagining the Israel of Tomorrow - December 2, 2024
The politicization of the October 7 tragedy has deepened divisions in Israel and among Jews worldwide. Our Hartman Learning Initiative continues in person with Donniel Hartman, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, in conversation with Rabbi Michelle Robinson as he reflects on a year of war…
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Yossi Klein Halevi in Conversation with Seth Klarman: The End of the Post-Holocaust Era - November 20, 2024
Our Hartman Learning Initiative continues in person at Temple Emanuel on November 20, 2024 with Yossi Klein Halevi in conversation with Seth Klarman, CEO of The Baupost Group. In the nearly 80 years following the Holocaust, the Jewish people saw the realization of two long-held dreams: the...
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Elana Stein Hain: Moral Anchors in this Moment - May 1, 2024
Our Temple Emanuel Hartman Learning Initiative continues in person in May with teaching by Hartman’s Dr. Elana Stein Hain. More than six months after October 7, we are still embroiled in a tragic conflict which has unleashed significant antisemitism and questions about the future of both Israel…
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Sara Labaton: Living Between Purim and Pesach Post-October 7 - April 10, 2024
In the 21st century, Jews in Israel and North America are both powerful and vulnerable, a duality that has only been made starker by the events of Oct. 7th and the subsequent war. While the contemporary expressions of Jewish power and vulnerability have particular and even unique features, Jewish...
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Micah Goodman: Israel's Longest War and Hopeful Future - February 25, 2024
Much has been learned since October 7. Micah will join us online live from Jerusalem and offer his candid thoughts on what it will take for Israel to get from its longest war to a new and better future. Let’s pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and let’s learn from our friend on the ground there.
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Donniel Hartman: The War in Israel – Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead - February 5, 2024
As the Israel-Hamas war enters its 4th month, moral, ethical and philosophical questions continue to dominate the discourse. Our Temple Emanuel Hartman Learning Initiative continues in person in February with Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, in conversation…
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Poems for our Days Part II with Rachel Korazim - January 28, 2024
We continue with Rachel Korazim’s second class of Israeli poetry written in the wake of October 7. More voices. More intimacy. More poems that show, with the change of a letter, how Israel and Israelis have changed in this worst chapter of the state’s existence. And yet, somehow, and…
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Poems for our Days Part I with Rachel Korazim - January 21, 2024
The calamity of October 7th left Israel and the Jewish world in shock and despair. The unimaginable became our reality. As more details of the horror unfold, we find ourselves less and less able to talk about it. The expression most commonly used is םילימ ןיא ein milim – No Words! And yet – there...
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Meeting this Moment: An Evening with Yehuda Kurtzer - November 21, 2023
In the aftermath of the tragic events of October 7, we have seen an unprecedented response from the Jewish community in love, solidarity, and philanthropy. Join Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, as he shares his thoughts on the big questions people are asking, as well as...
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Micah Goodman: An Update From Israel - September 10, 2023
What is going to happen in Israel when later this month the Supreme Court has a hearing on, and issues a ruling about, the Knesset’s vote this past summer eliminating the Supreme Court’s power to invalidate laws it deemed unreasonable? If the Supreme Court validates the Knesset’s move, what will…
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Israel's Identity Crisis: How Should Friends of Israel Respond? with Yossi Klein Halevi - February 27, 2023
Yossi Klein Halevi Israel's Identity Crisis: How Should Friends of Israel Respond?
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The Judicial Reforms: Crisis or Opportunity? with Micah Goodman - February 12, 2023
Micah Goodman The Judicial Reforms: Crisis or Opportunity?
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Inside Out: Self-Knowledge in Our Understanding of Israel with Justin Pines - January 24, 2023
Justin Pines Inside Out: Self-Knowledge in Our Understanding of Israel View Source Materials here.
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Reclaiming Religious Language for the Moral Challenges of Zionism with Elana Stein Hain - December 12, 2022
Elana Stein Hain Reclaiming Religious Language for the Moral Challenges of Zionism View Source Materials Here.
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Sinai, The Podcast Version: Hartman Learning with Rabbi Wes - The Torah of TikTok
May 1, 2022 View Source Materials Here View the Torah of TikTok Here
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Sinai, The Podcast Version: Hartman Learning with Rabbi Wes - Inside Chabad's Vision for American Judaism
March 13, 2022 View source materials here
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Sinai, the Podcast Version: Hartman Learning with Rabbi Gardenswartz "Responding to Amnesty's Aparth"
February 13, 2022 Link to Source Materials: https://www.templeemanuel.com/event/hartman-foundations-for-a-thoughtful-judaism-with-rabbi-gardenswartz/
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When Law and Ethics Collide, Who Wins? with Gordon Tucker, December 12, 2021
Gordon Tucker When Law and Ethics Collide, Who Wins? December 12, 2021 Link to source materials: https://www.templeemanuel.com/event/hartman-scholar-events-2021-12-12/
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The Ethical Implications of Shrinking the Conflict with Micah Goodman, November 14, 2021
Micah Goodman The Ethical Implications of Shrinking the Conflict November 14, 2021
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TE Connects Hartman: Is Shrinking the Conflict a Moral Advance, or An Excuse for More of the Same?
TE Connects Hartman: Is Shrinking the Conflict a Moral Advance, or An Excuse for More of the Same? October 31, 2021
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The COVID Ethicist: Revisiting Pandemic Dilemmas with Mishael Zion - October 3, 2021
Mishael Zion The COVID Ethicist Revisiting Pandemic Dilemmas October 3, 2021 View Source Materials Here: https://www.templeemanuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Zion_M_The-COVID-Ethicist_Temple-Emanuel_Oct-2021.pdf
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Writing Our Own Story: A Hidden Narrative of the Book of Genesis with Dani Segal - October 25, 2020
Enjoy our lecture with Dani Segal on October 25th, 2020.
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Micah Goodman - August 25, 2020
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on August 25th, 2020.
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Micah Goodman - August 18, 2020
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on August 18th, 2020.
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Micah Goodman - August 11, 2020
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on August 11th, 2020.
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Micah Goodman - May 3, 2020
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on May 3rd, 2020.
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Micah Goodman - April 5, 2020
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on April 5th, 2020.
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Rachel Korazim: Poems around the Seder Table - March 29, 2020
Enjoy our lecture with Rachel Korazim on March 29th, 2020. View source materials here
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Donniel Hartman: Talking about Israel: Missteps and Opportunities - February 24, 2020
Enjoy our lecture featuring Donniel Hartman on February 24th, 2020. View source materials here
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Micah Goodman - November 21, 2019
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on November 21st, 2019. You can find the source materials here.
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Rachel Korazim: From the Summit of Mt. Scopus - November 2, 2019
Enjoy our lecture with Rachel Korazim on November 2nd, 2019. View source materials here
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Alex Kaye: Is Zionism Legitimate in an Age of Nationalist Populism and Ethnocentrism? - September 22, 2019
Enjoy our Lecture with Alex Kaye on September 9th, 2019. View Source materials here
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Micah Goodman - May 20, 2019
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on May 20th, 2019.
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Micah Goodman - December 2, 2018
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on December 2nd, 2018.
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Yehuda Kurtzer: The Moral, The Political, and The Partisan: Jewish Community and Jewish Values in an Era of Polarization - November 8, 2018
Enjoy our lecture with Yehuda Kurtzer on November 8th, 2018. View source materials here
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Alex Kaye - October 28, 2018
Enjoy our lecture with Alex Kaye on October 28th, 2018.
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Yossi Klein Halevi - June 3, 2018
Enjoy our lecture with Yossi Klein Halevi on June 3rd, 2018.
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Segal, Jaeger, and Avnery Panel - May 9, 2018
Please enjoy our lecture panel on May 9th, 2018.
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Micah Goodman - December 3, 2017
Enjoy our lecture featuring Micah Goodman on December 3rd, 2017.
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Donniel Hartman - May 25, 2016
Enjoy our lecture featuring Donniel Hartman on May 25th, 2016.
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Micah Goodman - November 22, 2015
Enjoy our lecture with Micah Goodman on November 22nd, 2015.
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Micah Goodman - May 14, 2015
Enjoy our lecture with Micah Goodman on May 14th, 2015.
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Micah Goodman - May 13, 2015
Enjoy our lecture with Micah Goodman on May 13th, 2015.
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Micah Goodman - December 14, 2014
Enjoy our lecture with Micah Goodman on December 14th, 2014.
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Micah Goodman - March 11, 2014
Enjoy our lecture with Micah Goodman on March 11th, 2014.
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