LEADER 04949nam 2200517 450 001 9910788838403321 005 20230810000314.0 010 $a3-11-038702-6 010 $a3-89949-794-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783899497946 035 $a(CKB)3360000000513370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4855881 035 $a(DE-B1597)38865 035 $a(OCoLC)987949388 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783899497946 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4855881 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11382544 035 $a(OCoLC)987102087 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000513370 100 $a20170526h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aJewish and Israeli law $ean introduction /$fShimon Shetreet, Walter Homolka 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (576 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a3-89949-793-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tAbridged contents --$tDetailed Contents --$tPreface --$tTable of Cases --$tTable of Legislation --$tGlossary --$tAbout the Authors --$tChapter 1: The Emergence and Development of Jewish Law --$tChapter 2: Jewish Law as a Pluralist Phenomenon --$tChapter 3: General Introduction --$tChapter 4: System of Government --$tChapter 5: Basic Principles of the Israeli Legal System --$tChapter 6: Judicial Role in Society --$tChapter 7: Culture of Judicial Independence --$tChapter 8: The Executive and Legislative Power --$tChapter 9: War Powers?Relations between Civil Authorities and the Military --$tChapter 10: Law and Religion in Israel --$tChapter 11: The Historical Roots of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: The Founding Fathers Agreement of 1947 --$tChapter 12: The Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court on Non-Orthodox Communities --$tChapter 13: Selected Jewish and Other Religious Issues in International Jurisprudence --$tChapter 14: Promoting Equality for Women, Minorities, and Jews from Different Countries --$tChapter 15: Holocaust Dilemmas in Israel --$tChapter 16: Commercial and Business Law --$tChapter 17: Private Law --$tChapter 18: Environmental Law --$tChapter 19: Dispute Resolution --$tIndex 330 $aThis book provides a concise introduction to the basics of Jewish law. It gives a detailed analysis of contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel?s legal culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion, constitutionalization, and equality. It is the ultimate book for anyone interested in Israeli Law and its politics. Authors Shimon Shetreet is the Greenblatt Professor of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the President of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and heads the International Project of Judicial Independence. In 2008, the Mt. Scopus Standards of Judicial Independence were issued under his leadership. Between 1988 and 1996, Professor Shetreet served as a member of the Israeli Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He was senior deputy mayor of Jerusalem between 1999 and 2003. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System. The author and editor of many books on the judiciary, Professor Shetreet is a member of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Belgium. Rabbi Walter Homolka PhD (King?s College London, 1992), PhD (University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2015), DHL (Hebrew Union College, New York, 2009), is a full professor of Modern Jewish Thought and the executive director of the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The rector of the Abraham Geiger College (since 2003) is Chairman of the Leo Baeck Foundation and of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Foundation in Potsdam. In addition, he has served as the executive director of the Masorti Zacharias Frankel College since 2013.The author of "Jüdisches Eherecht" and other publications on Jewish Law holds several distinctions: among them the Knight Commander?s Cross of the Austrian Merit Order and the 1st Class Federal Merit Order of Germany. In 2004, President Jacques Chirac admitted Rabbi Homolka to the French Legion of Honor. 606 $aJewish law 610 $aJews (Law). 615 0$aJewish law. 676 $a296.18 700 $aShetreet$b Shimon$f1946-$0571445 702 $aHomolka$b Walter 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788838403321 996 $aJewish and Israeli law$92764110 997 $aUNINA