After Hebron: Prospects for the Peace Process
The Hebron agreement is now finally in place. During the months that it took to reach that point, some must have been reminded of what the nineteenth century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerstone once said about the Schleswig-Holstein question: there were only three people who understood it – one of whom was dead, one was in an asylum, and he himself had forgotten it.
After Hebron: Prospects for the Peace Process
Is Peace a Zionist Vision or Fantasy?
Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism
When Mustafa Kamal (Ataturk) founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923 (he was its president until his death fifteen years later), he set as his main objective the modernization of the new republic. His preferred means was speedy, intensive secularization and, indeed, every one of his reforms was tied up with disestablishing other Islamic institutions from their hold on Turkey’s politics, economics, society, and cultural life.
Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism
Jewish Hungary Today
The Survival and Success of Jewish Institutions: Assessing Organizational and Management Patterns
Israel’s Peace Policy: Trying to Walk with One Leg
Haredi-Secular Conflict in Jerusalem
The Italian Stage
The Direct Election of the Prime Minister: A Balance Sheet
The Integration of Jewish Immigrants in Montreal: Models and Dilemmas of Ethnic Match
South African Jewry: An Analysis of Constitutional Documents by Abigail Weidenbaum
This essay examines four specific South African Jewish communal institutions to show how they exist as part of a federation. It explores the extent of the influence of the host environment of South Africa on the institutionalization of the Jewish community, as well as the extent that this institutionalization was influenced by the Jewish political tradition.
Constitutional Documents of the Kehila Ashkenazi in Mexico by Alicia Gojman de Backal
The Ashkenazijews arrived in Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century. Being few in number, they prayed in the same small place as Jews of Sephardi descent. Yet differences between both groups appeared almost immediately because of the different styles of prayer service. These differences forced the Ashkenazi Jews to leave and search for a place of their own. This event can be considered as the initiation of the Kehild Ashkenazi in Mexico, which occurred in 1922. This study presents five early documents
in Spanish related to this founding and its development through the following seventy years.
Constitutional Documents of Two Sephardic Communities in Latin America (Argentina and Cuba)
This is a comparative analysis of the constitutional documents of the Unidn Israelita Chevet Ahim of Havana and the Sociedad Comunidad Israelita Sefaradi de Buenos Aires. Both were founded in 1914 by Jews from Turkey coming from a similar background, where the Jewish community was structured as a centralized body and protected by the state. The constitutional documents of these two communities reflect their similar aspirations to revive the pattern of organization of their community of origin, but which were achieved through different patterns of historical development. While Chevet Ahim was founded from its very beginning as a comprehensive communal organization, the Sephardic organization in
Buenos Aires began with a large number of small institutions limited in their scope.
