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Shalom Hartman Institute

Jewish summer campers use their bodies to form a Star of David. (Courtesy Foundation for Jewish Camp)
Posted inPhilanthropy

S.F.-based Jim Joseph Foundation has leaned into learning for 20 years

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb February 2, 2026February 2, 2026

For two decades, the San Francisco-based Jim Joseph Foundation has sought to reshape Jewish learning by focusing millions of dollars in grants on campuses, camps and leadership. “They know exactly […]

(Photo/Flickr Commons; Montage/JTA)
Posted inOpinion

A House bill on Israel is flawed, but our Jewish civil war is worse

Yehuda Kurtzer by Yehuda Kurtzer and JTA April 22, 2021April 22, 2021
A rose is placed on the Berlin Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Maja Hitij-Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

How a new Holocaust ‘seder’ is preparing for a post-survivor world

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
Sara Felder juggling and telling stories at LABA's DRUNK event at the East Bay JCC in Berkeley, Nov. 23, 2019. (Photo/Pete Rosos)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Getting drunk on Jewish texts and arts at LABA launch

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 25, 2019November 26, 2019
Rabbi Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute (Photo/Anna Marks Photography)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Shalom Hartman Institute gifted $20 million by S.F. foundations

by Dan Pine August 21, 2019August 21, 2019
Tomer Persico is a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and a Shalom Hartman Institute scholar-in-residence.
Posted inReligion

For Israeli scholar of New Age Judaism, there’s no place like Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 1, 2019February 4, 2019
Pro-BDS demonstrators protesting outside the Spanish Government Delegation in Barcelona, Oct. 20, 2015 (Photo/JTA-Albert Llop-Anadolu Agency-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

How Israel’s BDS blacklist falls short of its own goals

Yehuda Kurtzer by Yehuda Kurtzer January 21, 2018January 19, 2018
Hartman stands at a transparent podium gesticulating
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News

In S.F., reflecting on the ‘brand-new Judaism’ created by the Six-Day War

by Rob Gloster May 23, 2017
black and white: three men in IDF uniforms gaze up at the wall
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Probing the legacy of the Six-Day War at upcoming S.F. conference

Carly Nairn by Carly Nairn May 20, 2017May 19, 2017

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