State and Religion
Ruth Gavison: People can adjust
Why should masses of secular Jews agree to give up the oh-so-convenient option of doing their shopping on Shabbat?
Days of Worship and Days of Rest
Regulating days of rest by choosing as the shared day of rest the day identified as day of rest and worship by the hegemonic religion is not a matter of religious coercion and is not even a matter of human rights. The issue should be decided by th...
Gavison-Medan New Social Covenant on Religion and State Issues
The "status quo" arrangement underpinning relations between the religiously observant and secular in Israel has begun to lose its force in recent years. Religious-secular tensions, as a consequence, have intensified, as various groups strive to im...
Neve Shalom/Wahat-el-Salam2: A Case Study of an Arab-Jewish School in Israel
These two papers (one in English and one in Hebrew) describe the unique educational experience of the Neve Shalom school, which is a fully integrated Jewish-Arab school within a system where Jews and Arabs regularly study in separate schools and l...
The Significance of Israel in Modern Jewish Identities
My essay does not discuss Jewish identities in Israel. Rather, it seeks to highlight the implications to Jewish identities, in Israel and abroad, of the unique event of the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state. In a nutshell I argue that Isra...