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The Human Rights and Judaism Project Advisory Council
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Last Updated:
1/18/2012
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Category:
Research and Programs
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Headed by IDI Vice President of Research Prof. Yedidia Stern and Senior Fellows Prof. Shahar Lifshitz and Prof. Hanoch Dagan, IDI’s Human Rights and Judaism project was established in 2010 in order to give new meaning to the concept of Israel as a "Jewish and democratic State." By training an elite cadre of scholars to unveil the roots of modern human rights doctrine and to explore the contribution of Jewish tradition to human rights, this project aims to expose the common ground between the two distinct elements of "Jewish" and "democratic".
The Human Rights and Judaism project is guided by an advisory board of leading thinkers and academicians, headed by former Supreme Court Justices Aharon Barak and Meir Shamgar. A full listing of members of this advisory council can be found below.
Advisory Council Co-Chairs:
Justice Aharon Barak, former President of Israel’s Supreme Court; Faculty of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
Justice Meir Shamgar, President Emeritus of Israel’s Supreme Court
Advisory Council Members:
- Professor Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
- Professor Ya’akov Blidstein, Ben-Gurion University, Faculty of Israeli Thought
- Dr. Arye Carmon, President of the Israel Democracy Institute
- Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky, Temporary Director of the Israeli Rabbinical Court
- Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Professor Ruth Gavison, Founding President of Metzilah, Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University, Jeusalem
- Rabbi Avi Gisser, Chief Rabbi of Ofra, Head of the Institute for Halacha and Law; Chairman of the Counsel for National-Religious Education in Israel
- Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, Vice-President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute; Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv; former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger, Faculty of Law, School of History, University of Haifa; Chair of Israel Studies Department, Monash University, Australia
- Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber, Director of the Institute of Advanced Torah Studies, Bar-Ilan University
- Professor Yedidia Stern, Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute; Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University
- Professor Suzanne Last-Stone, Director of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
IDI's Human Rights and Judaism project is headed by Prof. Yedidia Stern, IDI Vice President of Research, and Senior Fellow Prof. Shahar Lifshitz, who are both members of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, and IDI Senior Fellow Prof. Hanoch Dagan, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.
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