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Book Launch: Religion and Politics in Jewish Thought: Essays in Honor of Aviezer Ravitzky

The Konrad Adenauer Conference Centre, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem Co-hosted by the Zalman Shazar Center

On Monday April 23, 2012, IDI and the Zalman Shazar Center hosted an evening marking the publication of Religion and Politics in Jewish Thought: Essays in Honor of Aviezer Ravitzky, edited by Benjamin Brown, Menachem Lorberbaum, Avinoam Rosenak, and Yedidia Z. Stern.

The event, which was conducted in Hebrew, was a tribute to Prof. Ravitzky, an IDI Senior Fellow Emeritus who headed IDI's Religion and State project together with Prof. Yedidia Stern.

To the book page

5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Arrival

5:30–6:30 p.m.
Greetings

Chair: Mr. Zvi Yekutiel, Executive Director, Zalman Shazar Center

  • Dr. Arye Carmon, President, Israel Democracy Institute
  • Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum, Dept. of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University
  • Tamar Biton-Ravitzky, Representative of the family

 
Messianism and Jewish Thought

Chair: Dr. Avinoam Rosenak,Head of the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

  • Prof. Anita Shapira, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute; Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
    Messianism and Zionism
  • Prof. Moshe Idel, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Shalom Hartman Institute
    The Messianic Pyramid

6:30–7:00 p.m.
Break

7:00–8:30 p.m.
Between Scientific Research and Social-Political Perspectives: A Personal View

Chair: Dr. Benjamin Brown, Israel Democracy Institute; Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Prof. Uriel Simon, Department of Biblical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
    The Bible and the Search for Peace
  • Prof. Rachel Elior, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Following Silenced Voices
  • Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Redemption and Response to the Distress of the Jewish People
  • Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern, Vice President of Research, Israel Democracy Institute; Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
    Law and Personal Identity

Session 1 (Hebrew)

Session 2 (Hebrew)

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religion and state