February 19, 2026
Who do Jews want to be and how do Jews want to show up in the world — for fellow Jews, for other communities in need, in democratic and pluralist spaces? How should Jews respond to internal division, to Israel, and to extremism?
Watch Donniel Hartman, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and Ethan Katz, CJS Faculty Director and Professor of History at UC Berkeley, in a frank conversation about Jewish values and peoplehood in this fraught global moment. Together, they explore the tensions dividing the Jewish world, and suggest Jewish pathways forward.