A Jewish State

75 Perspectives

Aharon Barak, Jehuda Reinharz, Yedidia Z. Stern (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

440 Seiten

2024
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-532-2 (ISBN)

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Israel is a “Jewish state.” What is the meaning of this and how does it align with the democratic nature of the country? These are the questions at the core of a contentious debate that has been raging since the establishment of the state. This volume includes 75 essays on the question of Jewish — Israeli identity, by some of today’s best thinkers — Jews and non-Jews, from Israel and around the world. Its pages include dreams and nightmares, poetic visions and rational analyses, harsh critiques and songs of praise. This collection is a first-of-its-kind nexus of thought on nationality, religion, politics, culture, society, environment, economics, and security. It is essential reading for any future discussion of Israeli identity.

Aharon Barak is an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this, Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995, and before this as Attorney General of Israel from 1975 to 1978. Jehuda Reinharz served as President of Brandeis University from 1994–2010. He is currently the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis. He is also the president and CEO of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. Yedidia Z. Stern is the Vice President of Research at Israel Democracy Institute, where he heads the projects on "Religion and State" and "Human Rights and Judaism." He is a full professor at Bar-Ilan University Law School, and served as its Dean. His areas of professional interest are religion and state, Jewish law, public law, and corporate law. His awards include the Zeltner Prize for excellence in Legal Research in Israel (2009) and the Gorni Prize for special contribution in public law (2012). Haim Zicherman, a senior lecturer at the Ono Academic College (OAC), is an expert in constitutional and property law and also researches the ultra-Orthodox society. His book Black Blue-White (Yedioth Books, 2014) takes a broad-minded approach to understanding the ultra-Orthodox society in Israel. Until last year, Zicherman managed the ultra-Orthodox campuses of the OAC, where thousands of Haredi students – male and female – study. In recent years, Zicherman has coordinated the development and management of the "Israeli Identity" course available to all undergraduate students in Israel.

Editors’ Introduction

Aharon Barak | Jehuda Reinharz | Yedidia Stern

Jewish and Democratic—Common Ground for a Common Camp: The Start of a Conversation

Isaac Herzog

1 A Country is Born

Éliette Abécassis

2 Israel’s Role toward the Diaspora

Elliott Abrams

3 The Struggle for Israeli Nature: Reshaping Judaism and Zionism Narratives

Netta Ahituv

4 Bringing Jews Together in an Age of Polarization

Doron Almog

5 A Shared Vision for the Jewish State

Moshe Arbel

6 Democratic and Jewish, in Accordance with the Principles of Israel’s Declaration of Independence

Amal Assad

7 What is a “Jewish State”?

Yisrael Aumann

8 The State of Israel’s Values as a Jewish State

Aharon Barak

9 From Jewish State to “Jewish Supremacy”

Nahum Barnea

10 A Return to the Bar-Yehuda Definition

Yossi Beilin

11 What Zionism Lacks at 75: A Border

Jeremy Ben-Ami

12 A Nation Running from Itself

Aluf Benn

13 The Mission of the Jewish State

Naftali Bennett

14 A (Levantine) Jewish and Democratic State

Yifat Bitton

15 A State whose Everyday Life and Conduct Breathe Judaism

Menachem Brod

16 Democracy and Monotheism: A Proposed Direction

Meir Buzaglo

17 The Triple Thread: On Hebrew Culture as a Connecting Identity

Ruth Calderon

18 A Jewish Nation-State Can Also Be a State of All Its Citizens

Mohammad Darawshe

19 Israel is the State of the Jewish People—Not a Jewish State

Alan Dershowitz

20 The State of the Jews Writ Large

Stuart E. Eizenstat

21 Can We Know the Future of the State of Israel?

Shmuel Eliyahu

22 A Spiritually Feminine Perspective

Rachel “Ruchie” Freier

23 Feeling at Home in a Jewish and Democratic Israel

Shuki Friedman

24 To Be a Free Nation in Our Land …

Motti Golani | Jehuda Reinharz

25 The State of Israel and the Jewish People in the Diaspora

Pinchas Goldschmidt

26 Israeli Judaism: The Continuing Chapter in the Jewish Story

Micah Goodman

27 Democratic Values and the Jewish State: A Work in Progress

Blu Greenberg

28 What is a Jewish State?

David Grossman

29 For the Land Shall Be Full of Judaism

Moshe Grylak

30 How Much Homeland Do We Need?

Nasreen Hadad Haj-Yahya

31 Israel Between Nationalism, Religion, and Liberalism

Moshe Halbertal

32 What’s Jewish About a Jewish State

Donniel Hartman

33 Israel as a Measure of Jewish Moral Fiber

Susannah Heschel

34 Jewish and/or Democratic in Numbers

Tamar Hermann

35 Between Myth and Detention Center

Ofri Ilany

36 Why the Biblical Ruth Would Not Marry Boaz in the State of Israel

Eva Illouz

37 A Jewish State Marked by Solidarity

Miron C. Izakson

38 The Imperative of a Pluralistic, Jewish, and Democratic State of Israel

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

39 Keeping Israel Jewish without Politics

Yaakov Katz

40 Israel as an Inspiration

Howard Kohr

41 A Jewish State That Recognizes a Person’s Humanity

Binyamin Lau

42 By Right, Not Might

Yisrael Meir Lau

43 Conservatism Versus Revolution: Can We Return to the Declaration of Independence?

Nissim Leon

44 A Jewish, Democratic, and Multicultural State

Menachem Mautner

45 The Vision

Eliezer Melamed

46 Not On One Leg

Sallai Meridor

47 Toward a Jewish State with Jewish Values: A Diaspora Vision

Ephraim Mirvis

48 A Mushroom State or Covenant State?

Chaim Navon

49 A Happy Birthday—Denied

Fiamma Nirenstein

50 The State of Israel—75 Years, and What Next?

Ehud Olmert

51 A Fluid Definition of Judaism

Kobi Oz

52 The State of the Jewish People, Substantive Democracy and the Republic of All Its Citizens

Fania Oz-Salzberger

53 A Raison d’etre for a Future Israeli-Jewish Democracy

David Passig

54 A Jewish State: The State the Jewish People Deserves

Yehoshua Pfeffer

55 Who Is Qualified to Decide on Ideological Questions Pertaining to Religion and State?

Yitzhak Pindrus

56 Urgently Needed: A State Education System for Israel

Shay Piron

57 Things We See from There: What I Discovered When We Went to the United States for a Year

Sivan Rahav-Meir

58 Absorption and its Difficulties

Alex Rif

59 Israel, Gateway of Hope

Jonathan Sacks

60 Israel—a Jewish and Democratic State, or a Democratic and Jewish State: Toward a New Framework for Jewish Existence in Israel

Avi Sagi

61 What Israel Means to Me

Dennis Ross

62 “Enlarge the Place of Thy Tent”: Judaism and Democracy in Harmony

Ayelet Shaked

63 “Here the Divine Presence Will Reside”

Hagai Segal

64 “Judging the Judges” in a Jewish and Democratic State

Sharon Shalom

65 75 Burning Candles

Zeruya Shalev

66 “Jewish and Democratic”—What’s It Like in Real Life?

Anita Shapira

67 What Would We Choose at the Moment of Truth—Judaism or Democracy?

Natan Sharansky | Rachel Sharansky Danziger

68 Zionism Remains a Freedom Struggle

Bret Stephens

69 The State of Israel—From Adolescence to Adulthood

Yedidia Z. Stern

70 The Jewish State We Should Be Hoping For

Michael Walzer

71 Jews and Arabs in Israel: Dancing Toward a Better Future

Mohammed S. Wattad

72 The Covenant State

Yehuda Yifrach

73 “Will Two Walk Together Unless They Are Agreed?”

Haim Zicherman

74 “Just a Word of Hebrew Pierces My Veins and My Soul” A Jewish State as Culture

Dina Zilber

75 Navigating the Tension: The Challenges and Opportunities of Being a Jewish and Democratic State

Author: ChatGPT (OpenAI)

Editing: Ghila Amati

Israel’s Declaration of Independence, May 14, 1948

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2024
Mitarbeit	General-Herausgeber: Haim Zicherman
Zusatzinfo	color
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	979-8-88719-532-2 / 9798887195322
Zustand	Neuware