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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Farnham, Surrey
Ashgate Publishing
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Judaism in the IDF: parameters, dynamics and paradoxes-- Part A The Legacy of Ambivalence
- Reversing the tide of Jewish history: culture and the creation of Israel's 'people's army'-- Between the transcendental and the temporal: security and the religious Jewish community in Israel
- Part B Adaptations - and Their Price
- The hesder yeshivot in Israel: a church-state military arrangement-- 'The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is His name' (Ex. 15:3). The use of religious motifs in contemporary orthodox perceptions of military activities in Israel-- The re-discovery of orthodox Jewish laws relating to the military and war (dinei tzavah u milkhamah) in contemporary Israel: trends and implications
- Part C Tensions - and Their resolution?
- Tensions between military service and Jewish orthodoxy in Israel: implications imagined and real-- Religion as a nation binder and nation-divider: interpersonal relationships in the Israel Defense Forces-- Warfare in contemporary Jewish law: varieties of analytical frameworks-- Epilogue: from haredi non-enlistment to an all-volunteer IDF?