The Harris Center supports and presents various lectures, book talks, and other discussions on timely topics relating to Judaic Studies.

Kurtzer event

"Are we at the End of a Golden Age? American Jewry in Transition"

May 6, 2025
7:00 pm

Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Yehuda is a leading thinker on the essential questions facing contemporary Jewish life, with a focus on issues of Jewish peoplehood and Zionism, the relationship between history and memory, and questions of leadership and change in the Jewish community. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, the co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, the host of the Identity/Crisis podcast, and the author of dozens of articles and essays about contemporary Jewish life.