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Howard M. Weisband on Created Equal, How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

October 9, 2009 | Howard M. Weisband

Creatively Presented Created Equal, How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, by Joshua A. Berman. Oxford University Press, 2008, 249 pp. Reviewed by Howard M. Weisband

Torah is their Trade

May 28, 2003 | David J. Schnall

In Israel today, the haredi world continues to condemn any recommendations to integrate into the army or the workforce and thus leave their religious studies. The non-haredi community, on the other hand, bears the brunt of military and reserve duty. This essay attempts to show that a balance between study and work values stands at the core of classic Jewish thought, and that it would be to the benefit of the haridim to become integrated into the broader Israeli society through military duty and assimilation into the workforce.

“The War of the Torah”: The Israeli Religious Peace Movements’ Struggle for Legitimation

October 30, 2001 | Gerald Cromer

Since the Six-Day War, religious Zionism has been increasing ly identified with the ideology of the Complete Land of Israel (Er etz Yisrael Hashlema). The maximalist stance on the territorial issue has become depoliticized and achieved a taken-for-granted status. The religious peace movements have interpreted privileged texts and politicized the annual cycle of festivals in an attempt to break this ideological hegemony and to show that their more dovish stance is also grounded in an authentic reading of Jewish tradition. However, they have failed to create the cultural resonance that is an essential prerequisite for success.

Jewish Tort Law Remedies Not Based on Torah Law – An Approach Based on the Ran and the Rivash by Steven Friedell

October 30, 1998