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Sis 150:March 2, 2009 Professor Noam Pianko

What is a Jewish State? Religion and Religious Communities in Israel. Sis 150:March 2, 2009 Professor Noam Pianko. Halachah-Jewish Law? Civil Religion? Separation of Church and State? Minority Religions?. What is a “Jewish” State?. Diverse Religious Population 5.4 million Jews

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Sis 150:March 2, 2009 Professor Noam Pianko

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  1. What is a Jewish State? Religion and Religious Communities in Israel Sis 150:March 2, 2009Professor Noam Pianko

  2. Halachah-Jewish Law? Civil Religion? Separation of Church and State? Minority Religions? What is a “Jewish” State?

  3. Diverse Religious Population • 5.4 million Jews • 1.2 million Muslims • 149,00 Christians • 117,000 Druze What about Non-jews?

  4. All Jews under jurisdiction of chief rabbinate for personal status issues • Public observance of Jewish Law • No transporation on the Sabbath • All government institutions have Kosher food • Non-Jew under their own religious authority Status Quo Agreement, 1953

  5. Any government leader must prescribe for himself priorities, must decide on first things first...(W)here there was agreement on what was urgent to me, I was prepared to make concessions on what was urgent to others...When I wanted to introduce national service conscription, the religious parties said they would of course support it but they insisted that all army kitchens be kosher. Kosher kitchens to them were of paramount importance; to me they were of subsidiary interest. It was a price I was prepared to pay for their full-fledged support on a vital defense measure...In the same way I agreed not to change the status quo on religious authority for matters of personal status. I know it was hard on some individuals. But I felt, again in the national interest, that it was wise to...pay the comparatively small price of religious status quo." Status Quo, 1953

  6. Calendar Holidays Education National Narratives Civil Religion

  7. Jerusalem Friday Afternoon and Saturday

  8. Personal Status Laws

  9. Marriage

  10. Divorce

  11. Burial

  12. Are they Jewish?

  13. Law of Return: “a grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of grandchild of a Jew, except a person who has been a Jew and has voluntarily changed his religion.” Halachah: Matrilineal Descent or Orthodox Conversion Who is a Jew

  14. Conversion

  15. Is this Kosher?

  16. "Certainly there is religious freedom for Moslems and Christians, but for Jews only the Orthodox way of religious observance is allowed" Chief Sephardic Rabbi Eliahu

  17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-xjZWX5rlE Women of the Wall video

  18. Control of Holy Sites

  19. Secular (Hiloni) • Religious (Dati) • Haredi/Ultra Orthodox • Zionist • Anti-Zionist • Orthodox Zionists • Mizrahi • “Traditional” Religious Communities in Israel

  20. Anti-Zionist Haredi

  21. Hesder Program

  22. Ovadia Yosef-Mizrachi Religious Leader

  23. Secular Israelis versus American Jews Growing polarization Secular Israelis

  24. What does the Future Hold?

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