CAJE Adult Learning Introduces Hartman iEngage
Posted on 09/27/2024 @ 06:00 AM
This past summer, Dr. Bella Tendler Krieger (front row left), CAJE’s Director of Adult Learning and Growth, traveled to Jerusalem to study at the Hartman Institute, the leading pluralistic Jewish thinktank and educational institution serving Israel and North America. This week, Bella shares reflections of her time spent at Hartman and introduces Adult Learning's exciting new iEngage Project curriculum.
After this difficult year, and in preparation for running a Jewish educational program for thoughtful adults, I wanted some help in making sense of this moment and in articulating the Jewish values that could help us through this time.
What an incredible experience it was! I am so grateful to CAJE for allowing me the time for intensive adult learning and reflection.
Over the course of five weeks at the Shalom Hartman Institute, I studied with -- Donniel Hartman, Yehudah Kutzer, Yossi Klein Halevi, Tal Becker, Gordon Tucker, Rachel Korazim, Christine Hayes, Melila Helner-Eshed, Elana Stein-Hain, and Miami’s very own, Lauren Berkun-- a veritable dream team of Jewish thought leaders.
In heated debates and thrilling seminars, we delved deeply into issues of Jewish peoplehood, identity, faith, ritual, history, and the State of Israel.
I am bursting with insights I would like to share with our CAJE community!
Instead of spelling these out in an article, I’ve committed to bringing our learners a real taste of Hartman Torah.
This year, in addition to our regular lineup of locally designed and Melton adult learning courses, we will be introducing Hartman’s iEngage curriculum.
IEngage is a series of courses that address core questions pertaining to the necessity and significance of the Jewish national enterprise, how a Jewish state should exercise power, why a Jew who lives outside of Israel should care about Israel, and what the State of Israel can offer the world.
The first Hartman course we will be offering is “iEngage: Jewish Values and the Israeli and Palestinian Conflict” taught by our beloved Dr. Sandra Lilienthal.
You will also notice that several of our Fall classes address the topic of American Judaism, a subject that many of us have been talking about as we ponder our place and our future in American society.
Taking time out of our lives to examine the ideas that truly matter to us with colleagues and teachers who share this perspective is exhilarating and enlightening in a way it could never be when we were younger.
Jewish Values & The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This twelve-week course designed by the Shalom Hartman Institute explores one of the most divisive issues affecting the Jewish people today: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
