Contents

PART 1: RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY

Yaakov Malkin: In The Shadow Of Rabin's Murder
Shulamit Hareven: Herzl's Vision Revisited “We Shall Keep the Clerics on a Very Tight
Eliezer Shweid: Jewish Religion And Israeli Democracy
Haim Cohen: Dangerous Hanukkah
Naftali Rotenberg: Is a Jewish Theocracy Possible?
Irad Malkin: The Jewishness of Israel Is Changing
Abraham Wolfensohn: Religious And Secular Messianism
Uri Ben Zvi: The History of the Power of Israel's Religious Political Parties
Yosef Goell: Rabin's Murder and Israeli Democracy

PART 2: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON JUDAISM

A.B. Yehoshua: Israeli Identity in an Era of Peace
Yair Tzaban: The New Hebrew Culture: Basis for a Secular Jewish Identity
Haim Cohen: God As Legal Fiction
Rachel Elior: Changes In the Concept of God In Jewish Thought
Ya’akov Cohen: A Rational Approach to the idea of God
Yaakov Malkin: Atheist Faith in Humankind, Creator of God as Literary hero
Shneor Einam: Three Circles of Israeli Identity: Humanist, Jewish, Zionist
Felix Posen: The Need for a Secular Yeshiva
Yeshayahu Leibowitz: I am Not a Humanist
Uri Rapp: Yeshayahu Leibowitz: A Humanlst In Spite of Himself
Yehuda Bauer: The Secular-Jewish Option: American Jewry's Vital Need

PART 3: JUDAISM-AS-CULTURE

Yaakov Malkin: Judaism-as-culture In The College of Pluralistic Judaism