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Who will be Israel's Nick Clegg?
To get itself out of trouble, Israel urgently needs people like Shlomo Yanai, Shlomo Dovrat, Shlomo Nehama, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Ruth Gavison and Uriel Reichman. These people will not go into politics unless it is brought to them. So the first test fac...
One on One with Ruth Gavison: Preserving identity, promoting pluralism
That the focus of and condition for the interview with Ruth Gavison is to be her recently established NGO, "Metzilah," feels, at first, problematic. How, I wonder, will I be able to contain my curiosity about certain controversies surrounding this...
I'm not in the radical right
Prof. Ruth Gavison is convinced that if we don't wake up Zionism from its coma, we could become the Crusaders of the modern age. "Then we'll have a few more governments and a few more election campaigns. But we won't be able to sustain this enterp...
Choose the best judge for the job
The Judicial Appointments Committee is due to choose three new Supreme Court justices today. The selection has already been delayed for a long time, with the result that the court has been below its normal complement of 15 justices.
The ball is in the secular public's court
The issue of conversion is ostensibly no longer in the headlines, but it still figures prominently on religious Zionism's agenda. The proposal to establish religious courts to serve as an alternative to those of the Chief Rabbinate comes up repeat...
Triumphalist Zionism and Jewish Identity
Ruth Gavison wrote yesterday in Ha’aretz:. “It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this law to the image of the State and the manner in which it educates its young citizens. The law perpetuates a situation in which particular ...
AIPAC 2008 Best Moments
Mr. James Tisch Former Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Ms. Chen Abrahams Resident, Sderot, Professor Ruth Gavison Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights Law, Hebrew University ...
Courtesy of AIPAC Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s speech this morning at the AIPAC policy conference is now online. You can listen to the full audio below. More audio, including that of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s address and a ...
Well, perhaps not. But you gotta wonder when the only panel of "intellectuals" speaking about Israel at the AIPAC convention consists of…three neocons and a liberal hawk! Yes, that's right. A plenary session panel composed of Natan Sharansky (russ...
Religious Affairs: Matza brawl
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On Pessah eve, Jerusalem's haredi mayor, Uri Lupoliansky, sent out letters to food vendors throughout the capital, including those who regularly sell non-kosher food, urging them not to sell hametz (unleavened products).
Barak, Friedmann at war in Hebrew press
Former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak has called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to fire Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann, whom he has accused of threatening to destroy Israeli democracy.
Rattling the cage: Keep Beinish's court supreme
I know Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann doesn't intend to cripple Israel's democracy and turn it into a Third World country, which is what former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak just warned is going to happen.
Human Rights, Human Wrongs
We were lucky to get an invitation to a recent thought-provoking conference at Israel's first private, non-profit academic institution, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. The IDC, as it's known in English, also offers separate English-langu...
Ethical Considerations of Privacy and Cyber-Medical Information By [http://ezinearticles.com /?expert=Jonathan_Klemens ]Jonathan Klemens In 1818, British author Mary Shelley's tale of Dr. Frankenstein's infamous creation startled and ...
On measures of privacy
However, one essay on privacy that appears directly relevant (and has inspired at least one paper surveyed here) is the view of privacy in terms of access that others have to us and our information, presented by Ruth Gavison . ...
Pacto Gavison-Medan
Sus autores son por un lado Ruth Gavison , jurista israelí de gran prestigio, comprometida con el liberalismo, el secularismo, la promoción de los Derechos Humanos y la auto-determinación judía en el Estado de Israel (sionismo). ...
Revisited: When is an Act Deemed Moral Turpitude?
. Commentary; Inevitably, the indictment against former President Katsav includes overtones concerning the amorphous lrgal term “Moral Turpitude.” The article below sets forth definitions by prominent “expert” members of Israel’s secular political...
New Challenges for International Human Rights
New Challenges for International Human Rights International human rights law is an area where philosophical, moral, political and legal perspectives are intimately interwoven. The ideal of IHRs is extremely powerful. ...
Op/Eds
Bridging the Post-Gaza Divide The Forward - 09.09.2005. Now that Israel has completed its evacuation of settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank , many uncertainties that plagued us for the past several months have been resolved. ...
Zionism as it was meant to be by RUTH GAVISON by The JPost
Palestine Remembered: The Home Of All Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians.