Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Center for Jewish Community Studies
8 total works
Co-published with the Center for Jewish Community Studies, this volume is based on the finest fruits of a summer Colloquium of The Institute for Judaism and Contemporary Thought held at the Kibbutz Lavi in Israel. Explores Jewish political life and thought from the Biblical period to the present in order to ascertain the content and character of the Jewish political tradition and its relevance for our time.
Constitutional Design and Power-Sharing in the Post-Modern Epoch
by Daniel J. Elazar
Published 1 February 1991
This volume is the product of the world conference of the International Association for Centers of Federal Studies held at the Jersalem Center for Public Affairs in 1984. The work explores the current issues in federal theory, new forms of power-sharing in the local arena, recent innovations in national and supranational power-sharing, as well as the use of power-sharing arrangements to resolve intense conflict situations.
Project Renewal in Israel
by Paul King, Orli Hacohen, Hillel Frisch, and Daniel J. Elazar
Published 18 August 1987
Although it is too early for a final evaluation of this internationally important urban revitalization program, which channelled one billion dollars into 84 distressed neighborhoods throughout Israel, Project Renewal has undoubtedly improved the social, welfare, educational and physical condition of hundreds of thousands of Israelis as well as improving the image of many neighborhoods.
In Israel today there is increasingly vigorous support for the framing of a constitution. At the same time there is almost no recognition that in forty years Israel has acquired an almost complete set of basic laws that form a constitution. The aims of this volume are threefold: to inform the Israeli public and the world as to what exists and consider what still is needed in the way of a constitution; to enter constitutionalism firmly on the Israeli public agenda; and to learn from the American experience. The author shows that Israel's constitution is more than anything else a modern adaptation of an ancient constitution. Contents: Israel and Models of Modern Constitutionalism; The Politics of Constitution-Making in the United States and Israel; Issues of Constitutional Design: Civil Rights and Liberties; Issues of Constitutional Design: Interjurisdictional Relations; The State of Constitutionalism in the United States and Israel: Where Do We Go from Here?^R Co-publised with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, this volume arose from a colloquium on the background for and possibilities of federal solutions to the Israel-Arab conflict. It reviews the social, cultural, economic and political environment, and discusses the available options for federation, confederation, condominium and common market.
This informative volume is comprised of various articles which examine specific issues relevant to authority and leadership in the Jewish community. The articles cover a vast number of cases and span a period of time from the biblical to the present. From the political and legal challenges and pressures from the outside, to the problems within the community itself such as the continuation of the Jewish tradition through education, the book reviews and analyzes individual instances in which the leadership of the community has been called upon to act. Together, the articles are woven in with one another against the historical background of the Jews to provide a genuinely interesting and complete chronicle of authority and leadership in the Jewish community. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
For over a decade the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has been exploring federal solutions for Israel, the Palestinians, and Jordan as the only way out of the Middle East conflict. In this volume, edited by renowned scholar Daniel J. Elazar, eleven separate options are presented and extensively explored, and a path is suggested for bringing peace to Israel and the Middle East. The work is a must read for anyone interested in this ever growing focal point of international debate and conflict. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
This collection of essays by distinguished Israeli and American Jews focuses on the problems of relating morality and power in contemporary statecraft. The following three questions are addressed in detail by the contributors: 1) Is there a difference between individual morality and the morality of public policy choices for a state or other political community? 2) Assuming a less than perfect world, how should political communities, their leaders and members deal with the problem of maintaining moral positions under duress or at times of crisis? 3) To what extent does or should a morally relativistic or morally absolutist position influence one's conclusions with regard to the first two questions? Contributors: Sidney Hook, Moshe Landau, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Natan Yanai, Netanel Lorch, Ismar Schorsh, Meir Shitrit, Shmuel Trigano, Baruch Susser, and others. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.