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Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction (Hardcover)
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Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction (Hardcover)
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This 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 "Judisches 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.
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