AJCLA's Jewish Learning Series
| This annual program unites our most active and successful leaders with a select group of younger men and women who have the abilities and resources to be key players in the AJC’s continued success. It meets monthly for a live, interactive broadcast directly from the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Master teachers and world-renowned scholars Rabbis David and Donniel Hartman, and Professor Moshe Halbertal, use classic texts to teach Jewish tradition, history and values. AJC's National Director of Interreligious Affairs Rabbi Gary Greenebaum and Randy Brown lead discussions that relate those lessons to the AJC mission, its history, methods and goals. The Institute concludes with a week long study at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem |
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Rabbi Eliot Dorff of American Jewish University speaks at the 2010 Jewish Learning Series |
AJC-Hartman Institute Program 2007
Fourteen AJC LA members participated in the 28th Annual Summer Study Retreat of the Shalom Hartman Institute focused on "Sacred Jewish Narratives and Collective Memory". This mission marks the third year AJC has sent participants of the ongoing Hartman Institute Lay Leadership program, featuring monthly satellite class from top scholars in Jerusalem including Rabbi David Hartmann and Dr. Moshe Halbertal. To participate in next year's program, email Randy Brown
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AJC-Hartman Institute Program 2007
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| The group included Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, US Director of Interreligious Affairs; Seth Brysk, AJC LA Executive Director; Saundra Mandel, LA Associate Director; Randy Brown, LA Director of Interreligious Affairs (delegation organizer); and AJC Board of Governors Member David Rousso. |
The delegation visits the Wall in Jerusalem |
| A delegation of fifteen AJC lay leaders and professional staff participated in the 27th Annual Lay Leadership Study Retreat at the Shalom Hartman Institute from June 27th – July 4th, 2007. The study sessions focused on Tikun Olam: Judaism & the Global Reality and was the culmination of a year long course that consisted of monthly lectures on dilemmas of faith via satellite from Jerusalem. |
Some conference highlights included Former Chief Rabbi of Denmark and current Knesset Member MK Rabbi Michael Melchior speaking about the major educational challenges of Israeli society. Dr. David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) led a spirited discussion on Tikkun Olam in Modern Jewish Thought.
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AJC’s delegation served as ambassadors by visiting some unique people and locations. We continued to cultivate AJC’s ongoing relationship with the Al Qasemi Academic College of Education. Dalia Fadila and President Mohammad Essawi eloquently presented Al Qasemi’s dynamic vision as the first institute of Islamic higher education in Israel which is trying to export revolutionary openness and liberalism to the wider Islamic world. In addition, we were treated to a spectacular musical presentation at the newly reopened Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. After a six year hiatus due to the recent intifada, students from the Utah campus have once again begun to study in Jerusalem.
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| Citizens' Empowerment Center in Israel (CECI), hosted our delegation to discuss their mission to empower citizens through civic education initiatives and examine Israel's structure of governance. Among the speakers and the participants were: Former Mossad Director MK Dani Yatom, Parviz Nazarian, founder of CECI and Professor Gideon Doron, President of the Israeli Association of Political Science. |
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