Rabbi David Hartman
Rabbi David Hartman is the founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He also served as a professor of Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting professor at the Universities of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles.
Articles by Rabbi David Hartman
The Religious Significance of Israel
Rabbis Kook and Soloveitchik offered differing views on what the modern state means theologically.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
This Israeli philosopher saw problems with both secular and religious Zionism.
The Anthropological Implications of Suffering
The rabbis of the talmudic era were more interested in the human response to suffering than in finding theological justifications for its existence.