Challenging the mainstream: Rabbi David Hartman

by Esther Solomon (Editor), Donniel Hartman, Bradley Burston

Rabbi Prof. David Hartman, born in Brooklyn in 1931, became a passionately engaged leader of liberal Orthodox thought in Israel and around the world. Never fully accepted by mainstream Orthodoxy, especially in Israel, he nonetheless built up institutions of Jewish learning and leadership in Jerusalem and North America that championed pluralism and an avant-garde participation in current social and political issues. He passed away in February 2013, and in his memory this e-book brings together articles written exclusively for Haaretz.com by Rabbi Hartman himself, analyses of his thought and controversies by Haaretz writers, and eulogies written by academic and rabbinic colleagues and students from all parts of the Jewish religious spectrum.

61 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 9, 2013

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Words every Jew should hear.

Hartman was an amazing rabbi, and his work should be a staple of modern Jewish thought. His lessons must be absorbed for today.