Rabbi David Hartman, a Jewish professor who founded Jerusalem’s prestigious Shalom Hartman Institute, died Sunday at the age of 81. Hartman was born in Brooklyn in 1931 and studied at the Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and the Lubavitch Yeshiva, receiving his rabbinical degree from Yeshiva University in New York in 1953. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from Montreal’s McGill University and served as rabbi at that city’s Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem, a synagogue he founded …More

As a sign of his continuing recovery, Gilad Shalit attended a Euroleague tournament basketball game. [Israel Hayom] Watch Steven Colbert interview “Where the Wild Things Are” Maurice Sendak. [The Jewish Daily Forward] Elisha Porat cured his ongoing shell shock by studying Hebrew texts in Jerusalem with Professor David Hartman. [Haaretz] Israel Hayom interviews Christophe Bigot, the French ambassador to Israel, about the EU’s decision to impose an embargo on Iranian oil. [Israel Hayom] The …More