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Includes contemporary Jewish political practice, and both systematic and historical treatments of issues in Jewish political theory and legal thought.
This book is divided into two parts, "Judaism and Political Praxis" and "Halakha and the Political Order." The first part is concerned with issues at the interface of Jewish political theory and practice: a Jewish philosophy of justice, the formulation of a practical philosophy based on traditional Jewish sources, and the need for greater political activism among Jews. The second part presents both systematic and historical studies. It includes the strategies used to determine the meaning and intelligibility of texts and norms in the rabbinic tradition, trends in the history of Jewish political thought, and the connectedness of law and morality in traditional Judaism.
"The intersection of politics and Judaism is a subject to which ever greater attention is being paid, not much of it as intelligent and well grounded as the essays in this book." — Menachem Kellner, University of Haifa, Israel
Introduction
PART 1. JUDAISM AND POLITICAL PRAXIS
Toward a Jewish Philosophy of Justice
Lenn E. Goodman
Is a Jewish Practical Philosophy Possible?
Oliver Leaman
Reason in Action: The "Practicality" of Maimonides's Guide
Daniel H. Frank
Jewish Tradition and National Policy
Elliot N. Dorff
PART 2. HALAKHA AND THE POLITICAL ORDER
Underdetermination of Meaning by the Talmudic Text
Aryeh Botwinick
Nachmanides's Conception of Ta'amei Mitzvot
and Its Maimonidean Background
Josef Stern
The Attitude Toward Democracy in Medieval
Jewish Philosophy
Abraham Melamed
Abravanel and the Jewish Republican Ethos
Reuven Kimelman
Spinoza's Challenge to the Doctrine of Election
David Novak
Morality and War: A Critique of Bleich's Oracular Halakha
Noam J. Zohar
Response to Noam Zohar
J. David Bleich
Reply to David Bleich
Noam J. Zohar
Contributors
Index