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In Israel, 70,000 Ultra-Orthodox men are enrolled in yeshivas (Talmudic academies) for married men, known as kollelim (singular: kollel). It is well known that this phenomenon is associated with indefinite deferment of military service, nonwork and poverty. This paper explores the ideological...
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Theodor Herzl's Der Judenstaat, published in 1896, laid the intellectual foundations for the future state of Israel … deprivation of vertical mobility. This article focuses on Herzl's views of the means and ends of creating the social overhead … capital or infrastructure of such a future country. A century ago, before Herzl, the strategic role of the public goods in the …
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Theodor Herzl published his programmatic book The Jewish State in February 1896. Central to it was the discrimination … (and hatred) commonly known as "antisemitism." Herzl viewed antisemitism as the heart of "the Jewish question," but also as … the potential motive power to achieve a Jewish State. Herzl's analysis of antisemitic discrimination is in many aspects …
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guarantor of freedom of conscience. Judaism in the United States illustrates the outcome in a competitive religious environment …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly …
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the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who …
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the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who …
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the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who …
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The Israeli Ultra-Orthodox population doubles each seventeen years. With 60 % of prime aged males attending Yeshiva rather than working, that community is rapidly outgrowing its resources. Why do fathers with families in poverty choose Yeshiva over work? Draft deferments subsidize Yeshiva...
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