Stuart A. Cohen

Divine Service? (eBook, ePUB)

Judaism and Israel's Armed Forces

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Soldiering, which for almost two millennia was almost entirely foreign to Jewish thought and practice, has by virtue of universal conscription become a rite of passage to citizenship in the Jewish state. For practicing orthodox Jews in Israel this change generates dilemmas that are intellectual as well as behavioural, and has necessitated both doctrinal and institutional adaptations. At the same time, the responses thus evoked are forcing Israel's decision-makers to reconsider the traditional role of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as their country's most evocative symbol of national unity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317148838
• Artikelnr.: 45096143

Autorenporträt

Stuart Cohen (D.Phil. Oxford University 1972) is professor emeritus of political studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and chair of the department of government and politics at Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. Over the past two decades his research has focused on the overall interface between the military and society in Israel. He has also devoted particular attention to the specifically Jewish dimension of that subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Judaism in the IDF: Parameters, Dynamics and Paradoxes; Part I
The Legacy of Ambivalence; Chapter 2 Reversing the Tide of Jewish History:
Culture and the Creation of Israel's 'People's Army'; Chapter 3 Between the
Transcendental and the Temporal: Security and the Religious Jewish
Community in Israel; Part II Adaptations and their Price; Chapter 4 The
Hesder Yeshivot in Israel: A Church-state Military Arrangement; Chapter 5
'The Lord is a Man of War: The Lord is His Name' (Exodus 15:3). The Use of
Religious Motifs in Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Perceptions of Military
Activities in Israel; Chapter 6 The Re-Discovery of Orthodox Jewish Laws
Relating to the Military and War ( dinei tzavah u-milkhamah ) in
Contemporary Israel: Trends and Implications; Part III Tensions - and their
Resolution?; Chapter 7 Tensions between Military Service and Jewish
Orthodoxy in Israel: Implications Imagined and Real; Chapter 8 Religion as
a Nation-binder and Nation-divider: Interpersonal Relationships in the
Israel Defense Forces; Chapter 9 Warfare in Contemporary Jewish Law:
Varieties of Analytical Frameworks; Chapter 10 Epilogue: From Haredi
Non-enlistment to an All-volunteer IDF?;