Divine service? Judaism and Israel's armed forces

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 that change generates dilemmas that are intellectual as w...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Cohen, Stuart 1946- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey Ashgate Publishing [2013]
Series:	Religion and international security
Subjects:	Judaism and state Civil-military relations > Israel Military law (Jewish law) War (Jewish law) War > Religious aspects > Judaism Israel > Armed Forces
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