Here are some articles (Hebrew) from the new volume of Iyyunim bi-Tekumat Yisrael. (hat tip) -Kimmy Caplan, “‘Hutzpedika Shmutzdikah Giyyoret’: Ha-Parashah shel Nissuei Amram Blau ve-Rut ben-David” (here) -Nissim Leon, “Halakhah ve-Populism be-Yahadut ha-Mizrahit bat Zemaneinu” (here) -Michal Shaul, “Shikum ha-Hevrah ha-Haredit be-Yisrael be-Tzel ha-Shoah” (here)
One of the larger questions related to the current discussion about conversion in Israel is the relationship between Israeli identity and Jewish peoplehood. Decades ago Canaanism called for the creation of a new identity unrelated to Judaism and the Jewish people. While Canaanism may not exist anymore, many Israelis are de facto living according to [...]
Magash Hakesef writes about his recently published article, The Excommunication of Mordechai Kaplan.
This maybe of interest to some of you. Daphna Hacker, Religious Tribunals in Democratic States: Lessons from the Israeli Rabbinical Courts Abstract: This paper offers a three-variable explanatory model of religious tribunals’ praxis in democratic states. The model emerged from two empirical studies conducted by the author examining the Israeli legal field governing the family [...]
Glenn Dynner, “Legal Fictions: The Survival of Rural Jewish Tavernkeeping in the Kingdom of Poland.” Jewish Social Studies 16, 2 (2010): 28-66. Abstract: By the end of the eighteenth century, Jews constituted the majority of tavernkeepers in Poland-Lithuania, leasing taverns and distilleries from the nobility. According to most historians, Polish Jews were driven out of [...]
Ronit Irshai, “Toward a Gender Critical Approach to the Philosophy of Jewish Law (Halakhah),” Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion 26, 2 (2010): 55-77. Abstract: Within most Modern Orthodox circles in Judaism (and effectively all ultra-Orthodox circles), feminism is perceived as a dangerous threat because of its seemingly radical challenge to sacred Jewish values such [...]
New ‘Reflections,’ Hartman Institute E-Magazine of Ideas, Now Online The newest issue of Reflections, the Shalom Hartman Institute electronic magazine of ideas, is now online. Among the articles: Israeli Society and the ‘Society of Learners’ by Professors Shlomo Naeh, Zvi Zohar and Elhanan Reiner who discuss the place of Torah scholars within the Jewish People [...]
Article alert: Benjamin Shmueli, Corporal Punishment of Children in Jewish Law: Traditional Approaches Meet Modern Trends: A Comparative Study
The journal Zion has recently published an issue devoted to the study of Jewish history in Israel. It includes a number of very interesting historiographical studies by a number of scholars about how Israeli scholarship on certain historical periods has changed (or maybe not) over the years. One thing that I noticed was that there [...]
The Cambridge Companion to Philo has recently been published. (hat tip) It contains a chapter by David Winston on “Philo and Rabbinic Literature.” Winston is the editor of Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, Giants and Selections. I also once heard, that according to Saul Lieberman, he was one of the best students of Talmud [...]
You are currently browsing the archives for the New Articles category.