Yehuda Kurtzer

President, Shalom Hartman Institute

Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Yehuda is a leading thinker on the essential questions facing contemporary Jewish life, focusing on issues of Jewish peoplehood and Zionism, the relationship between history and memory, and questions of leadership and change in the Jewish community. Yehuda has helped lead the Institute’s rapid growth as a leading research and educational center of the Jewish community.

Yehuda is trained as a scholar of ancient Judaism and rabbinics with a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Harvard University.

He lives in New York with his wife Stephanie Ives and their three children.