Hartman Senior Educators Forum 2016-17
Belonging and Community - Jewish Identity in 2016
Identity evolves. The Jewish experience in North America continues to create an indelible imprint on our expression of religion, our understanding of community, and our prospects for the Jewish future. This marked and novel impression is the subject of concern in many spheres of Jewish leadership.
Beginning November 2016, the Shalom Hartman Senior Educators Forum at The Lola Stein Institute will again probe Jewish tradition through the dynamic combination of world class scholars, study of original text and open forum discussion.
Visiting faculty from the Shalom Hartman Institute will meet with Toronto’s Jewish educational leadership over eight lunch hours throughout the academic year. Participating leaders include heads of day and supplementary schools, Jewish studies departments and other senior educators. 2016-2017 marks the Senior Educators Forum’s sixth year of study.
This year the Forum will engage in the complex dilemmas now arising in Jewish communities of North America.
We will ask:
2016-17 Dates and more Course Information
Beginning November 2016, the Shalom Hartman Senior Educators Forum at The Lola Stein Institute will again probe Jewish tradition through the dynamic combination of world class scholars, study of original text and open forum discussion.
Visiting faculty from the Shalom Hartman Institute will meet with Toronto’s Jewish educational leadership over eight lunch hours throughout the academic year. Participating leaders include heads of day and supplementary schools, Jewish studies departments and other senior educators. 2016-2017 marks the Senior Educators Forum’s sixth year of study.
This year the Forum will engage in the complex dilemmas now arising in Jewish communities of North America.
We will ask:
- What is compelling about Jewish identity in an age of partial and multiple personal characterizations?
- Does the nature of community and the meaning of belonging shift when individualism becomes an important value?
- Do changing boundaries in the Jewish community affect our understanding of Jewish Peoplehood?
- How does a relationship with the State of Israel feature in Jewish identity?
- What challenges do Israelis face as an Israeli-Jewish identity develops in their country; in this regard what might Israeli and North American Jewish communities learn from one another?
2016-17 Dates and more Course Information