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Israel’s Relations with the Vatican

March 1, 1999 | Aharon Lopez

During the ceremony of the presentation of my credentials as the Ambassador of Israel to the Holy See on April 10, 1997, I told His Holiness that, actually, this was not my first connection with the Vatican.

The Historic and Contemporary Relationships between Halakhah and Mishpat Hamelukhah

October 30, 1998

This article introduces the Jewish Political Studies Review issue examining traditional sources for building a civil state in a halakhically-acceptable manner, drawing upon the halakhic category of mishpat hamelukhah. Jewish tradition knows two sources of legitimate legislative-judicial-governance activity. Principal among them is the halakhah which is traditionally understood as a direct development from God's covenant with Israel at Sinai. The Bible developed the semi-separated category of mishpat hamelukhah (the law of the kingdom), explicated in Deuteronomy 17:11-20 and I Samuel 8-15, a parallel and semi-separate legal-judicial governance system within the power of the kings and other civil rulers in Israel.

Jewish-Israeli Identity among Israel’s Future Teachers

April 20, 1997

The question of Jewish-Israeli identity is one of present-day Israeli society's cardinal and pressing issues. The identity of a citizen of Israel is not that of a purely Israeli identity, nor is it a purely Jewish identity. It is, in varying degrees, a synthesis of Jewish and Israeli components, depending on the particular subgroups or subidentities. Stress develops around the relationship between Jewishness and Israeliness and around the relationship between Jewish religion and Jewish nationality. Our findings revealed four distinct models of Jewish-Israeli identity: I) Non-religious (secular); 2) Traditionalist (religious tradition-oriented); 3) National religious (State Religious sector); 4) Ultra-Orthodox (Independent sector). A meaningful shift has occurred in the attitude of Israeli youth toward the Holocaust.

Religion and Modernity in Our Day

April 20, 1996

Spinoza and the Bible

April 25, 1995

Jewish Television for the Next Century

April 16, 1995 | Prof. Morton Weinfeld

Religious Values and Political Expediency – Australia and the Question of Jerusalem: 1947-1950

October 30, 1994

Democracy and Judaism: The Question of Equality

April 27, 1993

In the Shadow of the Mountain: Consent and Coercion at Sinai

April 2, 1992

A Time for Spiritual Leadership

October 15, 1989

The Jewish People and the Kingdom of Heaven: A Study of Jewish Theocracy

October 4, 1989

The Jewish Dimension in Teaching International Relations

October 2, 1989 | Efraim Inbar

Comparative Politics and the Jewish Political Experience

October 2, 1989

Who is a Jew and How? The Demographics of Jewish Religious Identification

September 24, 1986 | Daniel J. Elazar

Judaism and Democracy : The Reality

March 17, 1986 | Daniel J. Elazar