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Moshe Halbertal

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Halbertal is profoundly committed to the democratic process. "Democracy is a non-violent form of adjudicating different ideologies. It's very easy to be non-violent when stakes are low; in Israel, we are in a condition where the stakes are very high. It's a tribute to Israel that it has managed to
141:, and co-author of the Israeli Army Code of Ethics. He currently holds positions as the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gruss Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. In 2021 he was elected to the 254:, but not impose doctrinal tests on these institutions. In his view, individuals should have an equal opportunity to form Orthodox, Reform, or other kinds of congregations with the same access to state funding. 587: 241:
According to Halbertal, what "distinguishes between the so-called ultra-Orthodox point of view and a modern Orthodox or modern approach (is) that tradition doesn't monopolize all of value, all of truth".
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maintain democracy under such conditions of diversity and high political stakes. I would like to see other Western states deal with this condition without becoming fascistic."
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He received the Rothschild Foundation's Bruno Award and the Goren Goldstein Award for the "Best Book in Jewish Thought" in the years 1997-2000.
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He received his B.A. in Jewish Thought and Philosophy from Hebrew University, cum laude, in 1984, and his PhD from Hebrew University in 1989.
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Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications (translated from Hebrew by Jackie Feldman as Concealment and Revelation
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Halbertal believes that the Israeli government ought to finance and subsidize religious education, synagogues, and
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Between Torah and Wisdom: Menachem ha-Meiri and the Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence
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Concealment and Revelation: The Secret and its Boundaries in Medieval Jewish Thought
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The Birth of Doubt: Confronting Uncertainty in Early Rabbinic Literature
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The philosopher, the Jewish State, its democracy and the future
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By Way of Truth: Nachmanides and the Creation of Tradition
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Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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He is a faculty member at the 187:From 1988 to 1992, he was a fellow at the 26: 15: 618:Anti-Christian sentiment in South America 548:Uruguayan people of Polish-Jewish descent 319:Judaism and the Challenges of Modern Life 315:(Hebrew) (Shalom Hartman Institute, 2006) 279:Interpretative Revolutions in the Making 205:Mandel School for Educational Leadership 563:Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent 376: 583:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni 7: 543:Uruguayan people of Israeli descent 111: 513:Hartman Institute Official Website 339:(Princeton University Press, 2013) 333:(Princeton University Press, 2012) 307:(Princeton University Press, 2007) 14: 228:, and they have three daughters. 364:in the Scholarship category for 287:(Harvard University Press, 1997) 175:Galicia (Central-Eastern Europe) 49: 143:American Philosophical Society 1: 533:Uruguayan emigrants to Israel 351:(Yale University Press, 2020) 349:Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism 281:(Hebrew) (Magnes Press, 1997) 613:Israeli Modern Orthodox Jews 366:Maimonides: Life and Thought 345:(Brown Judaic Studies, 2020) 337:Maimonides: Life and Thought 573:New York University faculty 403:en.jewishthought.huji.ac.il 644: 623:Yeshivat Har Etzion alumni 362:National Jewish Book Award 201:University of Pennsylvania 189:Harvard Society of Fellows 553:Academics from Montevideo 165:family. 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Uruguay
Israeli
philosopher
professor
writer
Moshe Halbertal
Hebrew
Montevideo
Uruguay
Israeli
philosopher
professor
writer
Maimonides
American Philosophical Society
Uruguay
aliyah
modern Orthodox
Holocaust
Łańcut
Galicia (Central-Eastern Europe)
Hebrew
Harvard Society of Fellows
Yale Law School
Harvard Law School
University of Pennsylvania
Mandel School for Educational Leadership
Jerusalem
Jewish Review of Books

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