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Civil-military Relations in Israel

By: Yehuda Ben-Meir

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Civil-military Relations in Israel

By: Yehuda Ben-Meir

In Civil-Military Relations in Israel, Yehuda Ben Meir examines the reasons preventing Israel from becoming a "garrison state". A former deputy minister for foreign affairs and longtime member and analyst of the Israeli political scene, Ben Meir is uniquely qualified to give a behind-the-scenes picture of the intimate relationship between Israel's civilian and military leaders. Civil-Military Relations in Israel examines the changing face of the military over the years from an idealistic defense force to a professional army. Ben Meir also views the great divisiveness in Israeli politics as a threat to the unified strength of purpose that in the past characterized the nation's civil authority, and he examines present and future threats to continued civilian control of the military. The book also delves into the legal and constitutional foundations of Israel's civil-military relations, providing a valuable perspective on the organization and role of the current defense establishment, as well as the informal relationship between the key players in the system. In addition, Ben Meir pinpoints the areas in which the military is involved in key political decision making. Despite continuing efforts to resolve the pattern of violence and conflict in the Middle East, the long-standing hostility between Arab and Jew in the region is unlikely to disappear in the near future. And as long as such animosity lingers, Israel's military will remain a strong force in Israeli politics.

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Columbia University Press

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0231096844

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National Security Decisionmaking

The Israeli Case

By: Yehuda Ben Meir

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National Security Decisionmaking

The Israeli Case

By: Yehuda Ben Meir

The study of national security decisionmaking is fraught with pitfalls. This statement holds true for any researcher, but all the more so for someone like this author, who has been actively engaged for many years in national security decisionmaking, at times at the highest levels. From the outset, I have been aware of the dangers of subjectivism, of injecting my own political attitudes and opinions, preconceived notions and biases into the material, the analyses and especially the conclusions and recommendations. I have endeavored, to the best of my ability, to undertake this research with the "disinterested curiosity" and objective neutrality which should be the hallmark of a good scientist and researcher. But no one can be totally disinterested in a process which has a direct bearing on his life and well-being; thus the only guarantee of the objectivity of such a work is the constant recognition and awareness of the danger of going astray, the advice and criticism of one's colleagues and, in the final analysis, one's own conscience.

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Routledge

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0429709749

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Rabbinic Authority, Volume 3

The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English - Halakhic Divorce and the Agunah

By: A. Yehuda Warburg

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The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English - Halakhic Divorce and the Agunah

By: A. Yehuda Warburg

In the third volume of his groundbreaking series on rabbinic authority in English, Rabbi Warburg discusses the ramifications of a Jewish divorce. In this well-composed monograph, Rabbi Warburg primarily focuses on the case of the modern day agunah, a wife who is unable to get divorced due to her husband's recalcitrance. He addresses the various techniques, such as obligating the giving of a get (Jewish divorce document), finding relief for an agunah who signed an exploitative agreement, and listing different avenues to void a marriage (bitul kiddushin) used by the rabbinical court. This issue is of some controversy in the Jewish community, and there is heated debate about it.

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Urim Publications

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9655243133

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9789655243130

The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

Fifty Years of Interstate and Ethnic Crises

By: Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Shmuel Sandler

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

Fifty Years of Interstate and Ethnic Crises

By: Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Shmuel Sandler

The Middle East conflict, be it between the state of Israel and Arab states or between Jews and Palestinians, is a staple of international news. Utilizing both theoretical approaches and empirical evidence, Hemda Ben-Yehuda and Shmuel Sandler argue that despite the recent upswing in violence, particularly over the Palestinian issue, conflict has gradually been giving way, since the 1970s, to a more orderly regime of conflict management. By integrating ethnonational theoretical literature into their analysis, the authors move beyond the current International Relations debate over the relative merits of realist/neo-realist approaches versus neo-liberal-institutional approaches. Ethnic-state disputes are the primary source for failing to terminate the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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State University of New York Press

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0791489191

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9780791489192

Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato

Permitting and Forbidding Open Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa

By: Yehuda Halper

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Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato

Permitting and Forbidding Open Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa

By: Yehuda Halper

Winner of the 2022 Goldstein-Goren Book Award from the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.

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BRILL

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9004468765

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Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process

By: Yehuda Lukacs

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Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process

By: Yehuda Lukacs

Israel and Jordan, even though self-proclaimed enemies of one another, practiced a relationship of interdependence based on corresponding interests. In the years following the 1967 war, these two countries' fates were delicately intertwined because of many factors like mutual reliance on natural resources (especially water) and parallel interests in the subordination of the Palestinian national movement. These conditions of commonality led to extensive ties between the two countries and approximated a state of de facto peace that - ironically - made an official peace treaty almost impossible to sign. A formal peace treaty would have required not only Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank but also Jordan's acknowledgment of the clandestine contacts between the two formal enemies. Yehuda Lukacs gives us an account of how this relationship changed in 1988 when Jordan disengaged from the West Bank. This event, combined with the Palestinian uprising and the Gulf War, paved the way for Israel and Jordan in 1994 to sign the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty. By systematically examining the impact of functional cooperation between two official enemies, Lukacs makes an important contribution to Middle East studies and international conflict resolution.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815627203

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Connecting to the Source

Excerpts from the Wisdom of Kabbalah

By: Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag ,Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag

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Connecting to the Source

Excerpts from the Wisdom of Kabbalah

By: Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag ,Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag

Connecting to the Source contains a selection of source excerpts written by the greatest Kabbalists throughout the generations: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi), the ARI, Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam), Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (RABASH), and others. The excerpts in the book are suitable for our generation and for future generations, and provide the reader with an entry to the development of the soul and a peep into the spiritual realm that Kabbalists describe. This book holds within it all the foundations of the wisdom of Kabbalah and picks the best source excerpts in many of the key subjects, such as unity, mutual responsibility, there is none else besides Him, the perception of reality, adhesion, love, joy, and many others. Each excerpt was selected with care in order to provide a complete picture on the subject, and assist the teacher in teaching the wisdom, as well as provide the student with answers to the questions that arise on one’s spiritual development. Open the book, read in it, and yearn for the concealed to become revealed. Enjoy your reading!

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Laitman Kabbalah Publishers

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1772280364

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9781772280364

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 2

The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English, Volume 2

By: A. Yehuda Warburg

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Rabbinic Authority, Volume 2

The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English, Volume 2

By: A. Yehuda Warburg

Volume 2 of the only English books on rabbinic authority In this second volume of Rabbinic Authority, Rabbi Warburg presents new rabbinical court arbitration decisions in English. He is the first rabbinic arbitrator to publish piskei din (decisions) on cases in Jewish civil law. It is important that those who service the institution of a beit din (a Jewish court) know the inner dynamics and reasoning of those who issue rulings. This volume focuses on a number of topics, such as the halakhic identity of an investment broker, the propriety of a civil will, contemporary issues relating to domestic violence, and the role of a rabbinical advocate in the beit din process.

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Urim Publications

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965524282X

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Rabbinic Authority, Volume 5

The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English - A Double Halakhic Doubt in Marriage and Divorce

By: A. Yehuda Warburg

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Rabbinic Authority, Volume 5

The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English - A Double Halakhic Doubt in Marriage and Divorce

By: A. Yehuda Warburg

In this fifth volume of his groundbreaking series on rabbinic authority, Rabbi Warburg discusses the case of the modern-day agunah, a wife who is unable to obtain a divorce due to her husband' s recalcitrance. For the first time in English, this monograph discusses utilizing the technique of the double halakhic doubt (sefek sefeika de'dina) as a vehicle to void a marriage, in order to address the plight of the agunah. This volume is devoted primarily to demonstrate how a beit din or rabbinical authority(ies) can take care of this complicated issue, especially for those decisors who reject the various other options to void a marriage.

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965524377X

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Civil-military Relations in Israel

By: Yehuda Ben-Meir

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Civil-military Relations in Israel

By: Yehuda Ben-Meir

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A Dream Come True

By: Eliezer Ben-yehuda

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A Dream Come True

By: Eliezer Ben-yehuda

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922), a Russian Jew, was the leader of the movement to revive the Hebrew language-the only attempt we know of that succeeded in restoring an archaic language to use in everyday speech. This memoir is an account of his life until 1882, a year after he settled in Jerusalem, it contains a description of his early life in the

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Book's by Yehuda Ben-Meir

Civil-military Relations in Israel

Civil-military Relations in Israel

National Security Decisionmaking

National Security Decisionmaking

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 3

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 3

The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato

Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato

Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process

Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process

Connecting to the Source

Connecting to the Source

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 2

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 2

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 5

Rabbinic Authority, Volume 5

Civil-military Relations in Israel

Civil-military Relations in Israel

A Dream Come True

A Dream Come True

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