Bulletin: Journal ToCs, Israel Studies, Israel Affairs, Constellations

Journal ToCs:

Israel Studies, 21.3 (2016): https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/34103

• Pnina Lahav, “Zivotofsky v. Kerry: The Supreme Court of the United States, the Politics of American Jewry and the Biblical Balaam“
• Michael Zank, “The Jerusalem Basic Law (1980) and the Jerusalem Embassy Act (1995): A Comparative Investigation of Israeli and US Legislation on the Status of Jerusalem“
• Arye Naor, “Menachem Begin and “Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel”
• Ben Herzog, “The American Diaspora in Israel: Intersecting Identity, Ideology and Politics“
• Kobi Peled, ““Germany in Jerusalem” The Inauguration of the Augusta Victoria Church and Hospice on the Mount of Olives in 1910“
• Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky, “Between Ideology and Reality: The Right Wing Organizations, the Jerusalem Question, and the Role of Menachem Begin 1948–1949“
• Kobi Cohen-Hattab, “Designing Holiness: Architectural Plans for the Design of the Western Wall Plaza After the Six-day War, 1967–1977“
• Hila Zaban, “In the Name of Pluralism: Fighting the (Perceived) Ultraorthodox Penetration in the Baka Neighborhood of Jerusalem“
• Lior Lehrs, “Jerusalem on the Negotiating Table: Analyzing the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks on Jerusalem (1993–2015)“
• Anat Zanger, “City and Memory: Jerusalem in Israeli Cinema“
• Miriam Fendius Elman, “Jerusalem Studies: The State of the Field“

 

Israel Affairs 22.3-4 (2016): http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fisa20/22/3-4

• Eithan Orkibi, “Israel at the polls 2015: a moment of transformative stability“
• Manfred Gerstenfeld, “The run up to Israel’s 2015 elections: a political history“
• Nir Atmor & Chen Friedberg, “Who turned out at the polls? Socioeconomic and geographic perspectives on 2015 voter turnouts in Israel“
• Dganit Ofek & Assaf Meydani, “A new integrated model of the formation of coalitions: perspectives on the Twentieth Knesset“
• Doron Navot & Aviad Rubin, “Likud’s success in the 2015 elections: Netanyahu’s Hobbesian moment“
• Udi Lebel & Guy Hatuka, “De-militarization as political self-marginalization: Israeli Labor Party and the MISEs (members of Israeli security elite) 1977–2015“
• Nissim Leon, “The covert political ethnicity of the Kulanu party“
• Arik Rudnitzky, “Back to the Knesset? Israeli Arab vote in the 20th Knesset elections“
• Michal Alon-Tirosh & Dorit Hadar-Shoval, “Leadership and identity politics on the eve of the Israeli 2015 elections: children’s perspectives“
• Sharon Haleva-Amir, “Not all about that Facebook: political campaigns and civic engagement in the 2015 elections”
• Dana Weimann-Saks, Yaron Ariel, Vered Malka & Ruth Avidar, “Trends in public and media agenda-setting during the 2015 Israeli elections“
• Nili Steinfeld, “The F-campaign: a discourse network analysis of party leaders’ campaign statements on Facebook
• Mira Moshe, “The enemy within us: emotional politics in the 2015 Israeli elections“
• David Kleczewski & Ruth Amossy, “Pragmatic and value-based argumentation in the 2015 Israeli elections“
• Rafi Mann, “The Bibi Sitter and the Hipster: the new comical political discourse“
• Editorial Board

Constellations 23.3 (2016): Special Section: Israel and Palestine: Thinking the “One State Solution” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.2016.23.issue-3/issuetoc

• Uri Ram and Andrew Arato, “Israel and Palestine: Thinking the “One State Solution” (pages 327–328)”
• As’ad Ghanem and Dan A. Bavly, “Seeking an Egalitarian State in Palestine/Israel: The Recent Debate about Binationalism (pages 329–339)”
• Honaida Ghanim, “Between Two “One-State” Solutions: The Dialectics of Liberation and Defeat in the Palestinian National Enterprise (pages 340–350)“
• Raef Zreik, “When Does a Settler Become a Native? (With Apologies to Mamdani) (pages 351–364)”
• Amal Jamal, “Conflict Theory, Temporality, and Transformative Temporariness: Lessons from Israel and Palestine (pages 365–377)”

 

New Book: Bekerman, The Promise of Integrated Multicultural and Bilingual Education

Bekerman, Zvi. The Promise of Integrated Multicultural and Bilingual Education. Inclusive Palestinian-Arab and Jewish Schools in Israel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

 

 

The Promise of Integrated and Multicultural Bilingual Education presents the results of a long-term ethnographic study of the integrated bilingual Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel that offer a new educational option to two groups of Israelis–Palestinians and Jews–who have been in conflict for the last one hundred years. Their goal is to create egalitarian bilingual multicultural environments to facilitate the growth of youth who can acknowledge and respect “others” while maintaining loyalty to their respective cultural traditions. In this book, Bekerman reveals the complex school practices implemented while negotiating identity and culture in contexts of enduring conflict. Data gathered from interviews with teachers, students, parents, and state officials are presented and analyzed to explore the potential and limitations of peace education given the cultural resources, ethnic-religious affiliations, political beliefs, and historical narratives of the various interactants. The book concludes with critique of Western positivist paradigmatic perspectives that currently guide peace education, maintaining that one of the primary weaknesses of current bilingual and multicultural approaches to peace education is their failure to account for the primacy of the political framework of the nation state and the psychologized educational perspectives that guide their educational work. Change, it is argued, will only occur after these perspectives are abandoned, which entails critically reviewing present understandings of the individual, of identity and culture, and of the learning process.

 
Table of contents

• Introduction
• Part 1
• 1. Positioning the Author
• 2. Theoretical Perspectives
• 3. Methodology: From Theory to Implementation
• 4. Schools in Their Contexts
• Part 2
• 5. The Parents
• 6. Teachers at Their Work
• 7. The Children
• Part 3
• 8. School Routines: Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Classroom
• 9. Ceremonial Events
• 10. Conflicting National Narratives
• Part 4
• 11. The Graduates
• 12. Conclusions
• Author Index
• Subject Index

 

ZVI BEKERMAN teaches anthropology of education at the School of Education and The Melton Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main interests are in the study of cultural, ethnic, and national identity, including identity processes and negotiation during intercultural encounters and in formal/informal learning contexts. He is particularly interested in how concepts such as culture and identity intersect with issues of social justice, intercultural and peace education, and citizenship education.

 

 

 

ToC: Israel Studies Review 30.2 (2015)

Israel Studies Review 30.2 (2015)

Editors’ Note

Editors’ Note
pp. v-vi(2)

 

Articles

Labor Zionism, the State, and Beyond: An Interpretation of Changing Realities and Changing Histories
pp. 1-27(27)
Author: Cohen, Mitchell

Does Israel Have a Navel? Anthony Smith and Zionism
pp. 28-49(22)
Author: Berent, Moshe

The Women of the Wall: A Metaphor for National and Religious Identity
pp. 50-70(21)
Author: Lahav, Pnina

Yiddish, Israel, and the Palestinians: Yosl Birshteyn’s “Between the Olive Trees”
pp. 71-91(21)
Author: Mahalel, Adi

Beyond the Religious-Secular Dichotomy: Looking at Five Israeli Dystopias
pp. 92-112(21)
Author: Katz, Gideon

The Politics of Emotion: A Case Study of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
pp. 113-129(17)
Author: Gold, Dana

 

Book Reviews

Book Reviews
pp. 130-155(26)

Lecture: Hilton, Patterns of Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Israel (Manchester, March 5, 2015)

The Zigzag Kid: Patterns of Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Israel

Rabbi Michael Hilton (Leo Baeck College, London)

4pm on Thu 5 March in A113, Samuel Alexander Building (Building 67 on the campus map, see directions).

ABSTRACT: Bat Mitzvah in Israel has been in the news with the first public ceremony for a girl with a Torah at the Kotel (the Western Wall). This talk will concentrate on trends in bar/bat mitzvah throughout Israel’s history, including ceremonies for visitors to Israel, and will link these with the history of the whole ceremony.SPEAKER: Michael Hilton has been Rabbi of Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Jewish Community since 2001 and has recently brought out Bar Mitzvah: A History, the first full study in English on the origin and development of both the bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies. Michael is an Honorary Research Fellow of CJS and a Lecturer and Governor, Leo Baeck College, London

Further information about the Israel Studies research seminar programme and other Jewish Studies events at the University.

New Article: Jobani & Perez, Women of the Wall: A Normative Analysis of the Place of Religion in the Public Sphere

Jobani, Yuval and Nahshon Perez. “Women of the Wall: A Normative Analysis of the Place of Religion in the Public Sphere.” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 3.3 (2014): 484-505.

 

URL: http://ojlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/3/484.abstract

 

Abstract

The place of religion in the public sphere is a controversial issue, and scholarly opinions differ, from insisting on a public sphere that reflects the religion of the majority, to those who insist on it being religion-free. Using the method of inquiry of contextual political theory, we examine the struggle of the Women of Wall (WoW) to pray collectively at the Western Wall. Their struggle began in 1988, and by 2013 includes many Courts decision, social struggles, public committees, and the involvement of many politicians and organizations, both in Israel and the USA. As this struggle takes place at the holiest place for observant Jews, it raises questions beyond its geographical location. The article describes three main normative approaches to state–religion relations (privatization, evenhandedness, and ‘dominant culture view’—DCV), examines them, and attempts to consider their application to the WoW case. Our conclusion points to the advantages of the privatization model, the permissibility of the evenhanded model and points to major shortcomings of the DCV.

New Article: Pullan, Militarism in Jerusalem’s Holy Places

Pullan, Wendy. “‘Bible and Gun: Militarism in Jerusalem’s Holy Places.” Space and Polity 17.3 (2013): 335-356.

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562576.2013.853490

Abstract

Violence is a regular occurrence at many of Jerusalem’s holy sites. Ongoing civilian clashes play a role, but official modes of control through the Israeli army (IDF) and Border Police, as well as more informal private security operations are often involved. Such militarisation may keep violent upheavals in check, but it is carried out within the framework of a long and harsh occupation. The two sites considered here—the Western Wall in the Old City and Rachel’s Tomb on the border of Jerusalem and Bethlehem—each have a history of war and are fixtures of the occupation. This study explores the mechanisms that embed religious and militaristic meanings at each site. In so doing, certain questions are addressed. Firstly, how are the sites being constructed and used as popular and dramatic settings for certain constituents to promote religious militarism/militarised religion in Jerusalem? In which ways do these characteristics act to intertwine with the religious and militaristic aspects of the sites, making them more extreme but also, in some circles, more attractive? And finally, how do these sites contribute to the character of Jerusalem, both in their own construction and image but also in the roles they play within the wider urban topography?

Cite: Frattina, Les femmes du Mur des Lamentations

Frattina, Katy Sakina. "Les femmes du Mur des Lamentations." Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 21,2 (2009): 299-314.

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Abstract

In October 2003, the Israeli Supreme Court reversed its earlier decision to uphold the right for women to pray out loud while wearing prayer shawls at the Western Wall. The court prohibited the women to pray in a manner contrary to traditional Jewish orthodox rites and ordered the state of Israel to provide an alternate, secure site for them. This case challenges us to think about the interplay between law and diversity-related claims that are made at the nexus of, and intersections between, culture, religion, and gender at the state and community level.

En octobre 2003, la Cour suprême israélienne est revenue sur sa décision d’autoriser les femmes à prier à voix haute et en portant des châles de prière au Mur des Lamentations. La Cour a condamné la prière qui est contraire aux traditions et aux pratiques du judaïsme orthodoxe. Elle a également ordonné à l’État d’Israël de proposer un autre lieu de prières sécuritaire pour les femmes. Cette affaire permet de nous pencher plus en avant sur les interactions entre le droit et la diversité sociale dans le domaine de la culture, de la religion et des questions de genre au niveau de l’État et de la communauté.

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URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_women_and_the_law/summary/v021/21.2.frattina.html

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Keywords: Israel: Religion, Gender, Ultra-Orthodox / Haredi, Israel: Law, Reform Judaism, Jeruslaem, Kotel / Wailing Wall