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and studying with Hartman 
colleagues, immersed with 
Israelis and celebrating with 
Shaarey Zedek friends visiting 
Israel, I return home wiser, 
impassioned and ready to grow 
in my leadership of the Jewish 
people.
” 
The Institute in Jerusalem also 
gathered heads of day schools, 
journalists, campus professionals 
and Muslim leaders all from 
North America for specialized 
cohort learning opportunities 
throughout the summer. 
Rabbi Lisa Stella, director of 
Religious Life and Education 
at the University of Michigan 
Hillel, was part of the campus 
professionals convening. 
She noted, “I am incredibly 
grateful for the time I spent at 
the Shalom Hartman Institute 
with my colleagues from the 
campus world. We were given 
opportunities to meet and learn 
with and from so many people 
that expanded and complicated 

the “Israel story” in powerful 
ways. As we often tell our 
students, there is no learning 
that compares to the experiential 
learning on the ground, in the 
land and face-to-face with people 
who live there. To then be able 
to process and discuss with one 
another was invaluable.
” 
The Shalom Hartman 
Institute is dedicated to bringing 
local leaders from both the 
professional and volunteer world 
to engage with challenging ideas 
and insights in the hopes that 
their leadership will help shape 
the future of Jewish life. The 
representatives from Michigan 
visiting Hartman’s Jerusalem 
campus this summer are 
renewed and excited to bring 
their learning back to the local 
community. 

Rebecca Starr is the director of region-

al programs for the Shalom Hartman 

Institute.

about Ukraine during the 
Holocaust in his speech 
to the Knesset also made 
clear that he is as much a 
product of the old Soviet 
Union as the symbol of a 
plucky democracy fighting 
for its life.
Given Ukraine’s own 
history of antisemitism 
and its current obsession 
with treason by those 
citizens who sympathize 
with Russia, can anyone 
really be sure that — as is 
the case now with Putin’s 
actions — the Jews there 
won’t somehow be dragged 
into that mess, too?
Even so, the Russians 
remain the villains in 
this story with Ukraine 
deserving sympathy and 
help, even if questions 
about the dimensions and 

cost of that aid deserve 
answers. 
If diplomacy can 
produce a solution that will 
avoid endangering Jewish 
life in Russia as well as 
heating up Israel’s border 
with Syria, then it must be 
vigorously pursued. 
For now, it’s time for 
those who are prepared to 
act as if we were back in the 
1970s with a captive Jewish 
population under the thumb 
of antisemitic tyrants to 
pipe down and remember 
that today’s challenges are 
different from the ones faced 
then. 

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief 

of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). 

Follow him on Twitter at: @jona-

thans_tobin.

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