Ne’emanut: Placing Relationships at the Center

How should American Jews approach their relationship with Israel? _Ne’emanut_
is an ethical orientation proposed by Shalom Hartman Institute Scholar in
Residence **Mijal Bitton** that emphasizes the importance of relationships –
over and above ideologies – in shaping moral good. She argues that _Ne’emanut_
should guide the commitments of American Jews to Israel.

Hartman Fellow and Jewish Currents publisher **Daniel May** and Hartman
Rabbinic Fellow and Makom Director **Joseph Schwartz** will respond to
Bitton’s thesis and interrogate it from different political perspectives.
Together, they will examine alternate approaches to understand the connections
between North American Jews and Israel.

This session is based on Mijal Bitton’s article [ _Ne’emanut:_ Placing
Relationships at the Center](https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/neemanut-
placing-relationships-at-the-center) in [ ** _Sources: A Journal of Jewish
Ideas_**](https://www.sourcesjournal.org/) from the Shalom Hartman Institute.

_This program is part of _[ _Ideas for
Today_](https://www.hartman.org.il/program/ideas-for-today/) _, curated
courses by Hartman Institute scholars on the big Jewish ideas we need to think
better and do better._

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