Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-173
Author(s):  
Elia Etkin ◽  
Tal Elmaliach ◽  
Motti Inbari
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Orthodox Judaism ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
Politics Of Religion ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Radical Left

Laura Wharton, Is the Party Over? How Israel Lost Its Social Agenda (Jerusalem: Yad Levi Eshkol, 2019), 432 pp. Paperback, $29.95.Fiona Wright, The Israeli Radical Left: An Ethics of Complicity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 208 pp. Hardback, $69.95.Daniel Mahla, Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion: From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 318 pp. Hardback, $99.99.

The Western Wall

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-124
Author(s):  
Yuval Jobani ◽  
Nahshon Perez
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Orthodox Judaism ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Preference Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
State Preference ◽  
State Relations ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Western Wall

Chapter 4 examines the state preference model of religion–state relations at contested sacred sites. Section A explores the case of the Women of the Wall as a case in which the state of Israel adopts the preference model—favoring ultra-Orthodox Judaism—in managing the contestation over prayer arrangements at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Section B explores the general religion-majoritarian approach which serves as the framework for the model of state preference at contested sites. Section C presents the specific techniques and policy tools, as well as the advantages and main weaknesses, of the third model of governing contested sacred sites examined in the current study: the model of “preference.” The last section (D) presents several arguments for the undesirability of state support for religion from the perspective of religious interests, emphasizing the applicability of this undesirability to the category of contested sacred sites.

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-203
Author(s):  
Hilla Dayan ◽  
Anat Stern ◽  
Roman Vater ◽  
Yoav Peled ◽  
Neta Oren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Palestinians In Israel

Yael Berda, Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank (Stanford, CA: Stanford Briefs, 2018), 152 pp. Paperback, $14.00. Randall S. Geller, Minorities in the Israeli Military, 1948–58 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), 238 pp. Hardback, $100.00. eBook, $95.00. Yaacov Yadgar, Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 226 pp. Paperback, $26.99. Kindle, $16.99. Ian S. Lustick, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 232 pp. Hardback, $27.50. Ilan Peleg, ed., Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019), 222 pp. Hardback, $90.00. Sarah S. Willen, Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 344 pp. Hardback, $89.95. As’ad Ghanem and Mohanad Mustafa, Palestinians in Israel: The Politics of Faith after Oslo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 206 pp. Paperback, $29.99. Daniel G. Hummel, Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 352 pp. Hardback, $49.95. Cary Nelson, Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019), 658 pp. Hardback, $45.00. Kindle, $7.99. Letters to the Editors

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