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Young Scholars: Human Rights and Judaism Project
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Date Published:
8/24/2011
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Last Updated:
9/4/2011
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Category:
Research and Programs
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Under the leadership of Prof. Yedidia Stern, Prof. Shahar Lifshitz, and Prof. Hanoch Dagan, IDI's Human Rights and Judaism project is cultivating a cadre of young scholars who will explore what Judaism has to say about fundamental liberal rights, while at the same time examining the unique rights and obligations of Jewish tradition and their relevance to life in the sovereign Jewish nation-state. This two-way approach will reveal areas of overlap and consensus between the liberal and Jewish lexicons as well as areas of divergence, allowing the two traditions to be informed and enriched by each other.
Following are the six outstanding young scholars who will be conducting research as part of a three-year fellowship program that is being conducted under the auspices IDI's Human Rights and Judaism project beginning in the 2011-2012 academic year.
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Ayelet Libson is a Henry McCracken doctoral candidate in Talmud and Rabbinics at New York University. She holds a BA with honors from Hebrew University and an MA from NYU, and is a gradate of the Advanced Talmudic Institute of Matan and the Beit Morasha program in Jewish Law, both in Jerusalem. In 2008–2009 she was a Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies Fellow at Cardozo Law School. Her research interests focus on the development of Jewish Law, legal theory and the history of ancient Judaism.
Doctoral Studies: New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Dissertation Topic: Reflective Torah: Moral Reasoning in the Babylonian Talmud
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Rubenstein
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Gitit Paz is a doctoral student in political science at Bar-Ilan University. Born in 1977, she holds a BA in political science (summa cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University and an MA in Hebrew literature from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Ms. Paz served as a research assistant and teaching assistant, and worked as a literary editor at the Institute of Translation of Hebrew Literature and as a literary critic for Haaretz. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on American Jewish identity, examining the issue from two parallel research angles, one sociological and the other literary.
Doctoral Studies: Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science
Dissertation Topic: A Generation in Search of Identity: A Journey into the Contemporary American Jewish Community
Supervisors: Dr. Moshe Hellinger and Prof. Michael Kramer |
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Rabbi Yosi Sharabi is a graduate of the Kerem B'Yavneh hesder yeshiva (1987–1989), who was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in 1994 (magna cum laude). He studied at the Eretz Hemda Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies from 1994–2000, and received certification as a Dayan (rabbinical court judge) by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in 2002. He holds an LLB (magna cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University (2004), and has been a doctoral student in the faculty of law since 2009. From 2005–2011, he served as a research fellow at the Yishma Center for the Application of Jewish Law at the Netanya Academic College.
Doctoral Studies: Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Dissertation Topic: 'Domestic Peace': Juridical Intervention in Resolving and Preventing Marital Crises in Jewish and Israeli Law
Supervisor: Dr. Amichai Radziner |
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Tomer Shadmy is a direct track PhD candidate at Tel-Aviv University, where she is part of the "Living Together" research group at the Minerva Humanities Center. She received her L.L.B (magna cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University in 2005. During 2009-2010, she was a Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies). Before embarking on her doctoral studies at Tel-Aviv university, she worked as a lawyer at Avigdor Feldman Law Office, where she specialized in Human Rights, and also worked as a political and financial journalist.
Doctoral Studies: Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law, the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies
Dissertation Topic: "Taking Duties Seriously: Returns to the Concept of Human Duties, as a Complementary Perspective to the Rights Discourse"
Supervisor: Prof. Menachem Mautner
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Attorney Shai Stern is a doctoral student at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he is currently writing his dissertation on under the guidance of Professor Hanoch Dagan. He received his LLB (cum laude) from Bar- Ilan University and was admitted to the Israeli Bar Association. Until 2011, he worked as a lawyer at S. Horowitz & Co. law firm, where he specialized in commercial litigation, dispute resolution, planning and construction, and administrative law. He served as a teaching assistant in property law and theories of property at Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, and Sapir College.
Doctoral Studies: Tel-Aviv University,The Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies
Dissertation Topic: "Taking Community Seriously: Toward a New Proprietary Arrangement in Takings Law"
Supervisor: Prof. Hanoch Dagan
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Adiel Zimran is a doctoral student in history, philosophy, and sociology of science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, under the guidance of Prof. Ruth Glasner and Prof. Caterina Rigo. He has a BSc in chemistry and biology and a Masters degree in physical chemistry and nanoscience from the Hebrew University. In the course of his studies, he published several papers, received a number of grants and awards for excellence, and taught various courses as a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Before embarking on his academic career, he studied in the Hesder Program at Har Etzion Yeshiva. In the framework of this program, he did his military service in the Armored Corps. A resident of Efrat, he is married and the father of two daughters.
Doctoral Studies: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
Dissertation Topic: The Philosophical Teachings of Rabbi Yitzhak ben Avraham Ibn Latif in his Book Sha’ar Hashamayim (Heaven’s Gate)
Supervisors: Prof. Ruth Glasner and Prof. Caterina Rigo |
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