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103229
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2011.
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The continuous threat to the existence of the state of Israel is reflected in a rigid agenda, causing extremely stiff competition for attention. Nevertheless, the question of the relationship between state and religion manages to be placed high on the agenda. By focusing on the case study of euthanasia during the 14th Knesset headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and the 15th Knesset headed by Ehud Barak, this article proposes an explanation that is applicable to Israel's socio-political context regarding the positioning of issues concerning state and religion on the policy-makers' agenda.
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178300
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Gender equality in the synagogue space gained momentum and engendered a discourse among religious feminist women in recent decades. In Israel this was accompanied by the harbingers of separate women’s gatherings for prayers and supplication among women of varied backgrounds. This gave rise to the notion of feminine thought in the world of Jewish prayer as opposed to a precise facsimile of men’s prayer. The article focuses on the ‘Shirat Rivka’ prayer group in the Neve-Daniel locality (Gush-Etzion) as a unique case study in this context. It examines the group’s characteristics as a manifestation of Post-Orthodoxy and Orthodox Feminism and offers a new prototype of women’s prayer that enables Orthodox women who do not necessarily view themselves as part of the feminist revolution to be active in this sphere.
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151687
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The issue of dealing with the end of life, in the context of death with dignity, has gained wide public significance in recent decades. Enacted in Israel in 2005, the dying patient law does not apply to vegetative state patients, leaving them with no decision regarding their fate. This article discusses the policy of non-decision using as a case study the treatment and the option of abstaining from treatment of patients who have been classified as ‘vegetative state’ (VS). This analysis was conducted while focusing on the various explanations for adopting a policy of non-decision, and suggests that it is the gap between the national level of policymaking, where a policy of non-decision is adopted, and the local level of policymaking, where concrete decisions are required, that harms those affected both directly and indirectly by the decisions made. With the aim of informing policymakers about their choice, the article will explain how a policy of non-decision leads to local medical positions that create a street-level policy, ignoring the shared medical needs of the VS patients as a group. The ramifications of this choice lead to a failure to exhaust all treatment options, or alternately, the impossibility of avoiding treatment of these patients.
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