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Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
Author_Stuart A. Cohen
bellum
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civil-military relations Israel
community
Draft Deferments
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FSU Immigrant
gender roles armed forces
Gush Emunim
halakhic perspectives on warfare
Har Etzion
hesder
IDF General Staff
IDF Ground Force
IDF High Command
IDF Soldier
IDF Troop
ius
Ius Ad Bellum
Merkaz Harav
Military Rabbinate
military sociology
national
National Religious Community
National Religious Youth
observance
orthodox conscription dilemmas
Pikuach Nefesh
Pikuah Nefesh
religion military service integration
religious
religious identity conflict
Religious Zionist
sabbath
Sinai Desert
Societal Military Relations
Traditional Jewish Rites
yeshivot
Yeshivot Hesder
Yoel Bin Nun
Young Men
zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9781409466376
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Religion now plays an increasingly prominent role in the discourse on international security. Within that context, attention largely focuses on the impact exerted by teachings rooted in Christianity and Islam. By comparison, the linkages between Judaism and the resort to armed force are invariably overlooked. This book offers a corrective. Comprising a series of essays written over the past two decades by one of Israel's most distinguished military sociologists, its point of departure is that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, quite apart from revolutionizing Jewish political activity, also triggered a transformation in Jewish military perceptions and conduct. Soldiering, which for almost two millennia was almost entirely foreign to Jewish thought and practice, has by virtue of universal conscription (for women as well as men) become a rite of passage to citizenship in the Jewish state. For practicing orthodox Jews in Israel that 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.
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.
