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The Shalom Hartman Institute is pleased to announce a new organizational structure built around three centers focusing on our core areas of advanced Judaic Studies research, educational initiatives in Israel, and North American leadership development.

 

This new structure is designed to position Hartman Institute for growth and expansion in Israel and in North America, to better serve existing constituencies, whether they are rabbis, teachers, IDF officers or students, and to enhance efforts to reach out to additional individuals and organizations.

 

The Institute’s three new centers are the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought, the Education Center for Israeli-Jewish Identity, and the Center for North American Leadership Initiatives. Each center comprises a number of departments and programs sharply focused on the participants and services they provide to thousands in Israel and North America.

 

Our website has been redesigned to reflect the new organizational structure, as will our soon-to-be-launched Hebrew website.

 

Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought

 

The Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought is a multi-denominational and independent think tank that draws on 3,000 years of Jewish intellectual thought to develop new ideas that shape and enrich modern Jewish life.

Component departments are:

 

Center Research Fellows

 

The Fellows are drawn from the faculties of Israel’s leading institutes of advanced education and come to the Center for intensive year-round work. Their research and publications develop new directions in Jewish thought, original interpretations of classic Jewish concepts and ideas.

 

Scholars Forum

 

The Scholars Forum is a research framework for a select group of world-class academics that develops value-based analyses and interpretations of the classic Jewish library.

 

Junior Scholars Programs

 

The Junior Scholars Programs include: the Graduate Beit Midrash for outstanding MA students; the Junior Fellows Program for distinguished PhD candidates; the Maskilot Fellowship Program for a select group of female PhD candidates; and Seder Nashim for MA students through post-doctoral students exploring the intersections of Jewish studies and gender studies.

 

Osher Department of Religious Pluralism

 

The Osher Department of Religious Pluralism engages senior academics and prominent religious figures from the Christian and Islamic communities around the world in learning conferences with Jewish scholars. Component programs include the International Theology Conference, International Philosophy Conference and Christian Leadership Initiative.

 

Education Center for Israeli-Jewish Identity

 

The Education Center for Israeli-Jewish Identity develops innovative educational initiatives and leaders reshaping Israeli-Jewish identity and laying new foundations for religious pluralism in Israel. Component departments are:

 

Be’eri Initiative for Pluralistic Jewish Education

 

Be’eri is a nationwide resource center for Judaic studies now in more than 50 Israeli public non-religious high schools.

 

Lev Aharon IDF Senior Officers Program

 

Le Aharon is an annual seminar for more than 1,000 senior officers a year exploring intersections of Jewish and Israeli identity, Zionism, religious pluralism, and Judaism and democracy in Israeli society.

 

Hartman Model Orthodox High Schools

The Charles E. Smith High School for Boys and the Midrashiya for Girls serve more than 700 Israeli high school students with innovative religious and secular education.

 

Center for North American Leadership Initiatives

 

The Center for North American Leadership Initiatives enriches the resources, vision and commitment of leaders and change agents who will shape the future of Jewish life in North America and set the agendas of its educational, religious and community institutions. The center has two major departments.

 

Department of Rabbinic Enrichment

 

The Department of Rabbinic Enrichment provides hundreds of rabbis of all denominations with the tools to bring inspired, relevant, and intellectually sophisticated messages and teaching to their communities. Programs are the Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar, an intensive, 10-day residency in Jerusalem every summer, the Rabbinic Leadership Initiative, a three-year development program for a select group of accomplished rabbis, and the Rabbinic Students Seminar, a year-long program in Jerusalem for North American rabbinical students studying in Israel.

 

Department of Lay Leadership Education

 

The Department of Lay Leadership Education provides text-based study programs and seminars for Jewish lay leaders and scholars of all denominations and ages in North America and in Israel. Programs are the Global Beit Midrash, a year-long videoconference learning course, Lay Leadership Summer Retreat, a Jerusalem-based residency for high-level learning, and the DVD Lecture Series, an adult studies course for synagogues and individuals that includes video lectures.

 

The Hartman North American Scholars Circle joins together a cadre of leading thinkers from across North America to provide sophisticated new responses to the challenges facing North American Jewry.

 

The Melamdim Graduate School for Teacher Education trains an elite cadre of Jewish studies educators for North American community high schools.

 

Full details on each program, articles about their activities, essays, lectures and videos by their scholars and participants, and registration information on all public programs is available throughout the Hartman Institute website.