Politics & Spirituality in Israel

Israel Programming at GJC presents
POLITICS & SPIRITUALITY IN ISRAEL
with Rabbi Rani Yaeger, Shalom Hartman Institute

Sunday, May 15 at 10:00 AM

In Israel, politics and state are deeply interwoven with the spiritual, and important tectonic changes are shaping the identity of Jews there. Join Rabbi Rani Jaeger of the Shalom Hartman Institute to explore the dynamics of what is happening religiously and politically in Israel. Together, we will address the larger question of Jewish identity in Israel today and how it plays out in the public political sphere as an unprecedented coalition government shakes things up.

Dr. Rani Jaeger is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center and head of the recently formed Tanakh Initiative at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He was one of the founders of the Institute’s Be’eri Program for Pluralistic Jewish-Israeli Identity Education. Rani received his doctorate from Bar-Ilan University on Jewish-Israeli culture as perceived by the poet Avraham Shlonsky. He was a participant in the first cohort of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis and received rabbinical ordination from the Shalom Hartman Institute and HaMidrasha at Oranim in September 2016. Rani is one of the founders of Beit Tefilah Israeli, a secular synagogue in the heart of Tel Aviv. He spent a year at Paideia, the European Institute of Jewish Studies in Stockholm, as scholar in residence.

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