End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel

Mikhael Manekin

Published by Academic Studies Press 2023

End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel

Mikhael Manekin
Translated by: Maya Rosen

In the series New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887193250

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About this book

End of Days is an Israeli Orthodox Jew’s attempt to provide a Jewish faith-based alternative to ethnic superiority in Israel, and a theological political framework for those wishing to promote equality in Israel and Palestine.

Author / Editor information

Manekin Mikhael :

Mikhael Manekin is an Israeli activist against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. He was the executive director of Breaking the Silence, a veterans’ organization, and of Molad, the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy. He is a founder and director of the Alliance Fellowship, a Jewish-Palestinian political leadership network, and a founding leader of the Faithful Left, a movement of religious Jews fighting oppression and inequality.Mikhael Manekin is an Israeli activist against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. He was the executive director of Breaking the Silence, a veterans’ organization, and of Molad, the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy. He is a founder and director of the Alliance Fellowship, a Jewish-Palestinian political leadership network, and a founding leader of the Faithful Left, a movement of religious Jews fighting oppression and inequality.

Reviews

“Drawing on an impressive range of sources—the Talmud, the writings of Ashkenazi and Sephardic medieval Jewish pietists, the Chofetz Chaim’s forgotten guide for Jewish soldiers, the Yiddish poetry of Jacob Glatstein—Manekin traces in compelling detail the traditional Jewish ethical disposition that recoils from pride, abhors violence, and views power with suspicion. He argues that this traditional Jewish ethics requires a radically different approach to the reality of Jewish political power instantiated by the Israeli state than the dominant view in Israel allows. By the book’s end, he leaves the reader with little doubt that not only is there no need to compromise one’s commitment to Jewish tradition in order to oppose Israel’s occupation, but that a commitment to traditional Jewish ethics requires active opposition to the occupation. Powerful yet unconventional, [this book] is a hybrid of memoir, mussar [morality], family history, halakhic argumentation, and social criticism. It is a manifesto for a new religiously committed Jewish left that is taking shape.”

— Joshua Leifer, Tel Aviv Review of Books (on the Hebrew edition)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Shaul Magid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
1. Remembering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Patience Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Submission Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Devotion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
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Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 146
Keywords: Israel-Palestine conflict; religious Zionism; Zionism; Israeli occupation; Jewish virtue ethics; Jewish ethics; religious right; religious left; ethnic superiority; ethics and power

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Published: November 21, 2023
ISBN: 9798887193250