iEngage Community Presentation with Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer

Community wide event on Tuesday, February 26, 2019.

We are thrilled to host Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, for our next iEngage community presentation. Temple Beth El of South Orange County has graciously volunteered to host the program, along with a reception beforehand.  This program is free and open to the community.  Yehuda will lead a values conversation on the divide between Israeli and North American Jews.

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The reception is at 6:30 pm and the presentation will start at 7pm.

Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a leading thinker and author on the meaning of Israel to American Jews, the value of the Jewish past to the Jewish present, and questions of leadership and change in American Jewish life.

Yehuda leads the efforts of the Institute across the North American Jewish communal landscape, and teaches widely in the Institute’s many platforms for rabbis, lay leaders, Jewish professionals, and leaders of other faith communities. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, which offers new thinking to contemporary Jews on navigating the tensions between history and memory, and on how we can relate meaningfully to our past without returning to it.

Yehuda received his doctorate in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and an MA in Religion from Brown University, and is an alumnus of both the Bronfman Youth and Wexner Graduate Fellowships.