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Lynn Davidman

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Brown University
Lynn is a professor in the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University. Her research interests are: sociology of religion and gender studies; comparative sociological study of why Modern Orthodox, right-wing Orthodox and Chassidim leave orthodoxy.
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Yael Zerubavel

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Rutgers University
Yael is a professor in the Center for Jewish Life at Rutgers University. Her research interests are the construction of Israeli national culture and formation/transformations of Israeli identity.
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Yaacov Yadgar

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Bar-Ilan University
Yaacov is a professor in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are: collective identity in Israel; nationalism and ethnicity; Jewish identity, media, culture, and politics.
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Ezra Kopelowitz

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The Jewish Agency
Ezra is affiliated with the Department of Jewish-Zionist Education at the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem.
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Shaul Kelner

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Brandeis University
Shaul is a professor in the Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. His research interests are: ethnic homeland tourism; professionalism in American Jewish organizations; American movement to free Soviet Jewry.
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Harvey Goldberg

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Harvey is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are the anthropology of Jewish communities and the intersection between anthropology and Jewish Studies.
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Steven Cohen

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Steven is a professor in the School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are American Jews, Jewish identity, and intermarriage.

On the Nature of Jewish Belonging in Contemporary Times: New Trends in the Study of American and Israeli Jewry

[RG #96] On the Nature of Jewish Belonging in Contemporary Times: New Trends in the Study of American and Israeli Jewry

March 1 - June 30, 2004

Organizers:

Steven Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Harvey Goldberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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The aim of our research group is to analyze new trends in the study of American and Israeli Jewry. This task will involve the documentation and intepretation of recent emerging trends in how people choose to express Jewish life and affiliate with other Jews, as well as thinking about familiar forms of Jewish diversity in new ways. We will explore the processes of historical development, as well as dynamic negotiation and choices made by Jews as individuals and as groups in forming the striking range of forms that characterize contemporary Jewish "belonging".

 

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Jeff Spinner-Halev

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University of Nebraska
Jeff is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. His research interests are: liberal and democratic theory and cultural pluralism; democracy and pluralism in a comparative approach.
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Rajeev Bhargava

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University of Delhi
Rajeev is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Delhi University. His research interests are: nature and ethics of political secularism; reconciliation between communities in deeply divided societies.
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Lior Barshack

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IDC Herzliya
Lior is a professor at the Radyzner School of Law, IDC Herzliya. His research interests are: religious aspects of the legal system; relations between law, kinship and psychoanalysis; and constitutional theory.

Law and Pluralism

[RG #97] Law and Pluralism

March 1 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Our research group will explore the following topics:

  • The religious aspects of legal systems.
  • Conceptions of secularism, the specificity of Indian secularism, and the extent to which secularism might be considered a Western, Christian doctrine.
  • Global justice, and caution in the attempts to extend the principles of distributive justice to the global sphere.
  • Establishing universal features of criminal law that would be applied in the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals.
  • Issues of political import and relevance to Israeli society.
  • The relations between values and rights in the constitutional context.
  • An analysis of the later drafts of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, drafted over the months April and May of 1948.

 

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Gary Tubb

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Columbia University
Gary is a professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His research interests are: history of the genre of the Sanskrit mahakavya or "great poem"; Sanskrit literary theory and related scholastic traditions.
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Herman Tieken

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Leiden University
Herman is a professor in the Kern Institute at Leiden University. His research interests are: classical literatures of Sanskrit and Tamil; Sanskrit drama; Middle-Indic languages and literatures, inscriptions; Jaina canonical texts.
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Peter Khoroche

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Independent Scholar
Peter is an independent scholar. His research interests are: Sanskrit poetry in all its aspects; translating, editing and interpreting the texts in the wider context of Indian culture.