Havruta journal launches with panel on conversion controversies

Havruta brings the fruits of the Institute`s research to a wider reading audience. The journal is unique it its style and content because of its blend of scholarship and popular appeal

Stuart Schoffman

June 18, 2008

June 18, 2008

Stuart Schoffman

Stuart Schoffman is a research fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute. For more than 20 years, as a writer for the Jerusalem Report and Jewish newspapers in North America, he has combined Jewish scholarship with reportage and analysis of politics, religion and culture. His translations from Hebrew include books by the Israeli authors A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, and Meir Shalev. Before making aliya in 1988, he worked as a journalist for Fortune and Time magazines in New York, and

An evening panel discussion to celebrate the release of Shalom Hartman Institute’s new semi-annual journal, Havruta, launched this spring, will be held Monday, June 30.

Havruta, which has been well received, brings the fruits of the Institute’s research to a wider reading audience. The journal is unique it its style and content because of its blend of scholarship and popular appeal. Two articles from Havruta that illustrate that approach are now available online:

Sharing Jewish space: Membership, conversion, and the search for community, By Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman

Ritual, renewal, and prophecy: Visions of an old-new age, By Jonathan Garb

The panel discussion topic is: "Conversion Controversies: Identity, Boundaries and the Future of the Jewish People." The topic, related to the inaugural volume’s focus on issues surrounding membership, is timely, as Israel’s the conversion crisis is as contentious as ever.

Panel participants include: Rabbis David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College, Donniel Hartman, Co-Director of the Institute, and Einat Ramon, Dean of Schecter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. The panel will be introduced and chaired by Havruta editor Stuart Schoffman.

This celebratory evening will be attended by visiting North American community leaders, rabbis, senior IDF officers and other VIP’s. Attendance is by invitation only.

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