Prof. Masua Sagiv, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law; Shalom Hartman Institute Scholar-in-Residence
The course will explore the intersection of gender, religion, and law in Israel, as manifested in social movement activism through law and society. The course will illustrate and reflect upon different strategies and spheres for promoting social change, by examining core issues involving gender, religion and law in Israel: religious marriage and divorce...
Prof. Masua Sagiv, Bar-Ilan University; Shalom Hartman Institute
This course will examine the scope and limits of promoting social change through law in the cultural, religious, and communal spheres in Israel where the “status quo” dominates: conflicts of state and religion in Israel. Issues to be covered include religion-induced segregations, religious marriage and divorce, Jewish dietary laws, gender equality and religion, conversion, and free exercise of...
Prof. Roy Peled, College of Management – Academic Studies
This course offers an opportunity to look into the forces behind different kinds of ethnic, racial and national hostilities, to understand their sources and to look at how the law in Israel and the US as well as international law deals with them. We will discuss basic concepts of group rights and minority rights in general and will then present some of the choices made...
Minority Rights in a Nation State: The Israeli Balance
Legal Studies 190
Prof. Roy Peled, College of Management – Academic Studies
In its’ declaration of independence, Israel declared itself as the fulfillment of the national aspirations of the Jewish people, and at the same time committed to maintaining full equality among all its citizens’ regardless of nationality. These potentially contradicting commitments have been at the center of Israeli political and legal...
Prof. Ron Hassner, Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies, UC Berkeley
This class begins with a historical overview of war in the region. The second part of the class introduces theories that complement and elaborate on theories from PS124A: arguments about the relationship between war and resources, religion, authoritarianism, civil military relations, territorial disputes, sovereignty, and power. In the third part of the course, we will explore...
Comparative Politics: Democracies, Dictatorships, and Hybrid Regimes in the Middle-East and North Africa
Political Science 140Z
Prof. Rami Zeedan, The Open University
This course will provide the students with the knowledge about basic concepts in political science – politics, government, state – emphasizing the fundamental division between liberal democracy, illiberal democracy and dictatorship regimes (fascist, theocratic, communist). The course is set on...
Junior Seminar: Occupy Wall Street in Comparative Perspective
Political Science 191
Prof. Michael Shalev, Hebrew University
Whereas in the U.S. Occupy Wall Street mobilized primarily tent activists and met with a mixed public reception, earlier the same year protests of “indignant” youth in Southern Europe and Israel spurred mega-demonstrations and won broad public support. What explains the appearance of rare “encompassing” protests, and why did they occur in some countries and not others during the 2011 protest wave? Did...
Special Topics in Jewish Studies: A Jewish and Democratic State
Prof. Ori Aronson, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
The course will review the central arguments on the meaning, possibility, and legitimacy of a “Jewish and Democratic State,” as Israel is defined in its constitutional documents. We will engage the central debates that have emanated from this constitutional duality, with a focus on their legal incarnations: the design of governing bodies and processes, the status and rights of the Arab minority, the Law of Return and...
Prof. Leon Wiener Dow, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Post-Doctoral Lecturer; Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Law, Robbins Collection for Civil and Religious Law, Berkeley Law
History of Zionism
History 100.006
Prof. Yaacov Yadgar, Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Visiting Israeli Professor
Jewish Law in Comparative Perspective: Comparative Visions of the Legal Enterprise
Law 265.4
Prof. Kenneth A. Bamberger and David Kasher, School of Law
Democracy, Civil Liberties and National Security: Israel in Comparative Perspective
Legal Studies 190.7/Political Science 123H
Prof. Menachem Hofnung, Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Inaugural Visiting Professor, Berkeley Institute...