Modern Jews tend to relate to the past through “history,” which relies on empirical demonstration and rational thought, rather than through “memory,”...
Yehuda Kurtzer is President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He was Visiting Assistant Professor and the inaugural Chair of Jewish Communal Innovation at Brandeis University, where he taught courses in Jewish Studies for the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership and DeLeT programs.
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