The Jewish Centrality of Israel

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-65
Author(s):  
Ofer Shiff
Keyword(s):  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Jewish Diaspora ◽  
Identity Card ◽  
Jewish Mother

This article examines reactions in the Jewish Diaspora to the ways the Diaspora is viewed in Israel, especially with regard to the Israeli self-perception of Israel as the ultimate spiritual and religious center for its Diaspora. These ideas are explored using as a case study the 1958 ‘Who is a Jew?’ controversy and David Ben-Gurion’s famous correspondence with 51 ‘Jewish sages’ on the question of how to classify on an Israeli identity card a child born in Israel to a non-Jewish mother. Focusing on the responses of the Orthodox Jewish sages, I suggest that this correspondence may be understood as a reflection of different, sometimes conflicting understandings of the nature and meaning of Israel’s centrality for Jews and Judaism.

scholarly journals Impact of the AEC on Migrant Workers: A Case Study of the Rohingya in Khon Kaen Thailand

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Mahmood Hayeemad ◽  
Rathakarn Buasri
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
National Treatment ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Khon Kaen ◽  
Identity Card ◽  
The One

There are several researches in Myanmese nevertheless they never concern Rohingya migrant workers. Because the ASEAN is going to become AEC in 2015, they can migrate freely in the region and National Treatment. The aim of this research is to study how AEC affects to Rohingya workers in Khon Kaen Thailand by qualitative research approach, sample selection with Snowball sampling, and in-depth interview, the limitation is interview only 11 sample. This study demonstrate awareness of AEC effects and find the workers have very less knowledge about AEC, in addition every Rohingya workers express that there is no effect from ASEAN community because they do not have Myanmese identity card and never be Myanmar nationality. Every migrant would not like to go back to Myanmar because there is not confident that the Myanmese government recognizes Rohingya as the Myanmese. In contrast, they hope the government’s merciful operations to provide citizenship as right as the one of Myanmese.

From Divine Light Mission to Elan Vital and Beyond: An Exploration of Change and Adaptation

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Geaves
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Élan Vital ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Internal Pressures

ABSTRACT: The following article will put forward the argument that it is necessary to take into account the worldview of the insider in order to appreciate the coherence or ““rationality”” of actions of a religiousspiritual teacher or organization. As a case study, the article examines the transformations that have occurred in the organizational forms utilized by Prem Rawat (a.k.a. Maharaji). While bringing readers up to date with Maharaji's activities since the 1980s, I argue that these developments owe more to Maharaji's self-perception of his role as a master and his wish to universalize the message historically located in the teachings of individual sant iconoclasts, than to external or internal pressures brought to bear upon the organizational forms themselves.

scholarly journals Religious Cultural Sensitivity in Israel: A Case Study of an Orthodox Jewish Family

2017 ◽  
Vol SE (1) ◽  
pp. S28-S31
Author(s):  
Michael Silbermann ◽  
◽  
Sabar Ron ◽  
Glynis J. Katz ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Jewish Family

Pan-Jewish Solidarity and the Jewish Significance of Modern Israel: The 1958 “Who Is a Jew?” Affair Revisited

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 266-279
Author(s):  
Ofer Shiff ◽  
David Barak-Gorodetsky
Keyword(s):  
Main Claim ◽  
Identity Card ◽  
Jewish Mother

The focus of this article is the 1958 “Who is a Jew?” controversy and David Ben-Gurion’s inquiry into Jewishness leading intellectuals from Israel and the Diaspora regarding how to register a child born to a non-Jewish mother in the Israeli identity card. The article’s main claim is that this correspondence must be understood not only as reflecting a continuous struggle between diaspora and Israeli Jews or between Jews of various religious persuasions, but rather as reflecting a built-in tension between pan-Jewish solidarity and Israeli Jewish sovereignty. This built-in tension seems to prevail today as well, and thus our analysis of the 1958 event may enable a more complex understanding of the continuous and seemingly unresolved tensions within today’s Jewish world.

scholarly journals Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Bulten ◽  
Laurens K. Hessels ◽  
Michaela Hordijk ◽  
Andrew J. Segrave
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Real World ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Action Programme ◽  
Process Oriented

AbstractProcess-oriented transdisciplinary research is generally seen as a promising approach to facilitate sustainability transitions. This type of research requires new participatory roles for researchers. These new roles may conflict with traditional, more academic roles that researchers often maintain next to their new roles. Using the Dutch transdisciplinary Knowledge-Action Programme on Water (KAP Water) as a case study, we highlight tensions that researchers adopting these new roles experience. We have observed both practical and more fundamental tensions between roles of researchers in process-oriented sustainability research. In particular, it proved difficult to combine more engaged roles, where researchers are involved in dialogues for change, with knowledge-oriented roles, where researchers focus on knowledge provision and are further removed from ‘real-world action’. Tensions arise from three sources: (1) researchers’ self-perception and expectations; (2) expectations from transdisciplinary partners, funders and researchers’ home institutions; and (3) societal convictions about what scientific knowledge is and how it should be developed. This paper contributes to the literature by enhancing the understanding of the interactions and tensions between the roles of researchers in transdisciplinary research.

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