Join us on Shabbat, March 22 for a scholar-in-residence Shabbaton with Yair Ettinger where he will discuss the topic: "Where is Religious Zionism Heading?”

We will have 3 sessions:

1.  Shabbat Morning Post-Davening: Religious Zionism and the War. Learn more here.
2.   Shabbat Afternoon:  Knitted and Frayed: The New Halachik Autonomy that is Unraveling Religious Zionism in Israel. Learn more  here.
3.   Seudah Shlishit: Responsa and Halachic Innovation Under Fire. Learn more here.

Yair Ettinger reports and comments on topics of religion and state for the Kan 11 News outlet in Israel. He previously served for twenty years as a journalist for the Haaretz newspaper where his work focused primarily on religious affairs, the religious and Haredi communities, and their politics.

His most recent book,  Frayed: The Religious Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists, is the recipient of the 2021 Hillel Kook Prize for non-fiction from the Institute for Israeli Thought. His other works include A Flock without a Shepherd (co-author, 2018), which analyzes Sephardic Haredim and the Shas political party following the death of Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef.

In 2016, he was a Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution in Washington, and is a former Kogod Research Fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

Yair studied Islam and Middle Eastern affairs at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and is a graduate of the Shiluv Yeshiva of the Sholom Hartman Institute. He resides in Jerusalem with his family.