Zionism
On March 2, 2009, Ruth Gavison, Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty and Founding President of The Metzilah Center for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Humanist Thought, presented the lecture entitle...
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...
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...