Identity/Crisis

By Shalom Hartman Institute

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In a frenzied media cycle, Identity/Crisis delves into the big ideas behind the news from a uniquely Jewish perspective. From the Shalom Hartman Institute, host Yehuda Kurtzer invites leading thinkers to unpack current events effecting Jewish communities in North America, Israel, and around the world, revealing the core Jewish values underlying the issues that matter to you. JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST FOR MORE HARTMAN IDEAS

Episode Date
The Role of Hillel on Campus
May 01, 2024
Enacting Redemption
Apr 16, 2024
Echoes of History at the National Library of Israel
Apr 09, 2024
Alone, Adjacent, and Among
Apr 02, 2024
Who Gets to be a Zionist?
Mar 26, 2024
A Sleep-in Against Antisemitism
Mar 19, 2024
Music in a Time of War
Mar 12, 2024
Listening in a World of Noise
Mar 05, 2024
Leadership Amidst Uncertainty
Feb 27, 2024
Toratah: The Regendered Bible
Feb 13, 2024
Israeli Rabbis Rise to this Moment
Feb 06, 2024
Introducing: TEXTing with Elana Stein Hain
Jan 30, 2024
Who Are the Jews — And Who Can We Become?
Jan 23, 2024
Pride and Prejudice at Elite Universities
Jan 16, 2024
The Evolution of Human Rights
Jan 09, 2024
Identity/Crisis Wrapped
Dec 26, 2023
Believe Israeli Women
Dec 19, 2023
Unpacking the Meaning of Hanukkah
Dec 12, 2023
The Battle for Liberal Values on Campus
Dec 05, 2023
When Jews Show Up
Nov 28, 2023
Fighting a Just War
Nov 14, 2023
Bring Our Hostages Home
Nov 09, 2023
Reflections on the Israeli Left
Nov 07, 2023
Israel’s War and the Diaspora
Oct 31, 2023
A Defining War for Young Jews
Oct 26, 2023
Resilience and Ingenuity in Crisis
Oct 18, 2023
A Nation that Can't Sleep
Oct 11, 2023
Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square
Oct 04, 2023
Lessons on Housing Insecurity from Sukkot
Sep 27, 2023
On Screaming - and Other Radical Ways of Showing Up
Sep 21, 2023
The Art of the Sermon
Sep 12, 2023
Five Years of Reporting on the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Sep 06, 2023
The Jewish Establishment and Its Critics
Aug 29, 2023
The Only Woman in the Room (Re-Release)
Aug 22, 2023
Variations on the Shema
Aug 15, 2023
Clergy at the Courthouse (Re-Release)
Aug 08, 2023
Fear, Fury, and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Israel
Aug 01, 2023
Zion's Roads are in Mourning
Jul 26, 2023
Introducing: Perfect Jewish Parents
Jul 25, 2023
The Jewish Leadership Pipeline Problem
Jul 18, 2023
A Celebration of Leadership at the Shalom Hartman Institute
Jul 11, 2023
From Liberal Jewish Thought to Liberal Jewish Action
Jul 04, 2023
The Lost Art of Persuasion
Jun 27, 2023
Small Town American Judaism
Jun 20, 2023
Kreplach and Collard Greens
Jun 13, 2023
Free Speech and Anti-Zionism at CUNY Law
Jun 06, 2023
Wet Hot American (Jewish) Summer
May 23, 2023
A God Just Like Us
May 16, 2023
The Case for Commandments
May 09, 2023
(Re-)Imagining Israel with MK Merav Michaeli
May 02, 2023
Next Generation Jews
Apr 25, 2023
The Only Woman in the Room
Apr 18, 2023
Jewish Inside Baseball
Apr 11, 2023
How to Run a Seder
Apr 03, 2023
Six Stories About the Protests in Israel
Mar 27, 2023
More Dollars, Fewer Moonshots (Re-Release)
Mar 22, 2023
American Judaism, the Chain Novel
Mar 15, 2023
Purim, But Make It Darker
Mar 07, 2023
From Kharkiv to New York
Feb 28, 2023
Should Jews Criticize Jews in Public?
Feb 21, 2023
Clergy at the Courthouse
Feb 14, 2023
Israeli TV Comes to The Sundance Film Festival
Feb 07, 2023
David Hartman z''l On Living a Spiritual Life
Jan 31, 2023
Bible by Bot
Jan 27, 2023
The Hole in the Center of Israeli Society
Jan 17, 2023
Envisioning Shared Society
Jan 12, 2023
Beyond Shul and State in Today's Israel
Jan 05, 2023
The American Jewish Music Episode (Re-Release)
Dec 27, 2022
Caring For Our Kids' Mental Health, Jewishly
Dec 22, 2022
The Path to Heretic in The House
Dec 13, 2022
A Jew Walks Into a Bar
Nov 30, 2022
Love, Thoughts, and Thanksgiving (Re-Release)
Nov 24, 2022
Jewish Media from Right to Left
Nov 18, 2022
Two Elections and the Path Forward
Nov 09, 2022
Why is Ben Gvir so Popular?
Oct 31, 2022
Who's a Bad Jew?
Oct 25, 2022
Anti-Zionism at Berkeley Law
Oct 20, 2022
The Song in the Heart
Oct 02, 2022
The King of Flesh and Blood
Sep 29, 2022
The Key Pronoun is We
Sep 22, 2022
Yeshiva vs. Pride
Sep 13, 2022
What Jewish Food Is
Sep 07, 2022
The Canadian Jewish Difference (Re-release)
Aug 30, 2022
A Musical Journey with Joey Weisenberg (Re-release)
Aug 23, 2022
The Peculiar Power of Jewish Food Influencers (Re-release)
Aug 16, 2022
The Hilltop Youth and Jewish Terrorism (Re-release)
Aug 09, 2022
The Torah of TikTok (Re-release)
Aug 04, 2022
The "Secular" Rabbis of Israel
Jul 26, 2022
Questions for the US Ambassador to Israel
Jul 21, 2022
Leonard Cohen's Military Mystery Tour
Jul 12, 2022
Israel's Unique Role in Global Justice
Jul 05, 2022
Reading the Trans Talmud
Jun 21, 2022
Jews, Gun Violence, and The Second Amendment
Jun 14, 2022
The Many Meanings of Revelation
Jun 01, 2022
Israel’s Outsized Role in American Politics
May 24, 2022
More Dollars, Fewer Moonshots
May 17, 2022
How Jews Talk About Abortion (Re-Release)
May 10, 2022
The Peculiar Power of Jewish Food Influencers
May 03, 2022
Antizionism in American Christianity
Apr 26, 2022
The Great American Rabbi Shortage
Apr 19, 2022
School, Shuls, and Hillels, Two Years Later
Apr 12, 2022
A Musical Journey with Joey Weisenberg
Apr 05, 2022
Jews in the US Military
Mar 22, 2022
Seven Deep Purim Ideas
Mar 16, 2022
Remembering the Holocaust in Ukraine: Never Forget
Mar 08, 2022
Ukraine's Jews in the Middle of a War
Mar 01, 2022
The Hilltop Youth and Jewish Terrorism
Feb 15, 2022
The Torah of TikTok
Feb 08, 2022
The Making of an American Shtetl
Feb 01, 2022
Norman Lamm and American Orthodoxy
Jan 25, 2022
Between Charlottesville and Colleyville
Jan 19, 2022
Challenging Wokeness: Jews & The American Narrative
Jan 11, 2022
Protecting a Predator: Chaim Walder & the Haredi Defense
Jan 06, 2022
Jews and Muslims in a Fractured America
Dec 22, 2021
A Word from the Rabbi's Spouse
Dec 16, 2021
Inside Chabad’s Vision for American Judaism
Dec 07, 2021
Israel-Palestine in the College Classroom
Nov 30, 2021
Love, Thoughts, and Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2021
Jewish Ethics in a Time of Power
Nov 16, 2021
The Conflict About the Conflict
Nov 09, 2021
How Jews Talk About Abortion
Nov 02, 2021
Who's Afraid of Impossible Pork?
Oct 26, 2021
The Bronfman Fellowships and the Difficulty of Pluralism
Oct 19, 2021
We Still Need to Talk About the Occupation
Oct 12, 2021
Meir Kahane, American Radical?
Oct 05, 2021
#70: Sweeps Week at a Covid-Era Synagogue
Sep 27, 2021
#69: A Conversation with the Minister of Diaspora Affairs
Sep 19, 2021
#68: Twenty Years Later
Sep 14, 2021
#67: The Global Fascination with Dead Jews
Sep 05, 2021
#66: Gen Z (and their Questions) Return to Campus
Aug 31, 2021
#65: Tel Aviv's Spaceport
Aug 11, 2021
#64: Sociology, Ideology, and Pew 2020 (Corrected)
Aug 02, 2021
#63: A Quintessentially American Jewish Institution
Jul 22, 2021
#62: Foundational Judaism: What is It, and How Do We Teach It?
Jul 15, 2021
#61: What is Jewish Studies For?
Jul 01, 2021
#60: To Fight Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, Look at the Data
Jun 22, 2021
#59: The Canadian Jewish Difference
Jun 14, 2021
#58: How to Lose Without Violence
Jun 08, 2021
#57: Learning How to Listen
Jun 02, 2021
#56: American Zionism is at a Crossroads
May 24, 2021
#55: The Scandals and the Journalist
May 05, 2021
#54: White Supremacy, Policing, and the Jews
Apr 27, 2021
#53: The Archvillain of the American Jewish Experience
Apr 20, 2021
#52: The Israeli Jewish Music Episode
Apr 15, 2021
#51: Genocide, Antisemitism, and the Nomenclature of Hatred
Apr 08, 2021
#50: The American Jewish Music Episode
Mar 22, 2021
#49: PJ Library: Children's Books, Grown-up Opinions
Mar 15, 2021
#48: Why Wasn't There a Jewish Institutional Apocalypse?
Mar 08, 2021
#47: Our Pandemic Year: The Inner Life of Jewish Spaces
Mar 01, 2021
#46: What is at the Center of American Religion?
Feb 22, 2021
#45: Does Antisemitism Need a Legal Definition?
Feb 16, 2021
#44: How California Jews Grappled with a New Curriculum
Feb 09, 2021
#43: Nostalgic Religion, Religious Nostalgia
Feb 01, 2021
#42: The First 100 Days – and the Last 1,400
Jan 26, 2021
#41: Vaccines and Politics
Jan 19, 2021
#40: The American Idea, Tested
Jan 08, 2021
#39: Mature Jewish Secularism
Jan 04, 2021
#38: The Congressman from NY-16
Dec 21, 2020
#37: The Future of Muslim-Jewish Dialogue
Dec 14, 2020
#36: Politics, Pandemic, and Podcasting
Dec 07, 2020
#35: Post-Election Politics and the Project of Diversity
Dec 02, 2020
#34: The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex
Nov 23, 2020
#33: Remembering Erekat and Rabin
Nov 16, 2020
#32: Post-Election Torah
Nov 09, 2020
#31: What the Future Holds
Nov 02, 2020
#23: Free Speech and Authoritarianism with Jeffrey Goldberg (Rerun)
Oct 27, 2020
#30: The Future of Jewish Progressivism
Oct 20, 2020
#29: Praying for the Welfare of This Government
Oct 13, 2020
#28: Jews, Catholics, and American Life
Oct 06, 2020
#27: An American Jewish Legacy
Sep 29, 2020
#26: Truth and Atonement
Sep 23, 2020
#25: The Loneliness of Jewish Theology
Sep 14, 2020
#24: Gender, Power, and Covid-19
Sep 08, 2020
#23: Free Speech and Authoritarianism with Jeffrey Goldberg
Aug 11, 2020
#22: Israel After Annexation: A Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi
Aug 03, 2020
#21: One Month, 20,000 Hours of Jewish Education
Jul 27, 2020
#20: Idealized American Pasts, Utopian Israeli Futures
Jul 20, 2020
#19: The Rise of Alternative Jewish Learning Spaces
Jul 13, 2020
#18: The New Jewish Political Canon
Jul 05, 2020
#17: Mikvah, Fertility, and the Pandemic
Jun 23, 2020
#16: The State of Jewish Journalism
Jun 18, 2020
#15: Facing Annexation
Jun 11, 2020
#14: American Jewish Communities After George Floyd
Jun 04, 2020
#13: Joshua Foer on the Future of Digital Judaism
May 27, 2020
#12: What Comes Next for Denominational Judaism?
May 21, 2020
#11: Being home
May 15, 2020
#10: The Hasidim of Netflix and the Israelis of HBO
May 07, 2020
#9: Homeland at Home
May 01, 2020
#8: Teaching Judaism at home is hard. Here's what you can do.
Apr 23, 2020
#7: No mosque for Ramadan, no church for Easter, no shul for Passover. Now what?
Apr 14, 2020
#6: Cooking for a different kind of seder
Apr 05, 2020
#5: Can the Jewish social safety net adapt?
Apr 03, 2020
#4: The Jewish funding crisis is here
Mar 27, 2020
#3: How to be a good leader in the middle of a pandemic
Mar 20, 2020
#2: Coronavirus and Community
Mar 13, 2020
#1: Jews and the Presidency
Mar 05, 2020