Divine Service?: Judaism and Israel's Armed Forces

ISBN-13: 9781138271968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 210 str.

Stuart a. Cohen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?;

O autorze

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.