Dr. Kalman Neuman received his religious education at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva (1973-76) and the Har Etzion Yeshiva (1976-1980). Living in Israel since 1969, he completed his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral research on depictions of the ancient Israelite polity in the early modern Europe was published, in part, in Political Hebraism: Judaic Sources in Early Modern Political Thought in 2009. He has studied and written extensively on the relationship between Jewish law and contemporary politics, with an emphasis on the political ideology of Religious Zionism. His articles have been featured in Haaretz, The Jerusalem Report, and Meimad magazine, and he was a Mandel Jerusalem Fellow in 2000-2001.
Dr. Neuman is currently a member of IDI’s research team exploring issues of religion and state. During his tenure at IDI, Dr. Neuman has authored an extensive essay on Religious Zionist attitudes towards the State of Israel and is presently writing on how the question of the occupied territories is framed as a conflict between religion and state, as well as on the implications of imposing a core curriculum on ultra-Orthodox schools in Israel.