Resisting Liberalism – A Special Issue of Israel Studies Review

A special issue of the highly-regarded academic journal Israel Studies Review (volume 31, issue 1), dedicated to the work of Shaharit’s academic group exploring the future of Israeli liberalism, was published in June 2016. The following are the articles featured in the journal:

Introduction: Resisting Liberalism in Israel—the Case of Marginalized Mizrahim 

by Nissim Mizrachi and Menachem Mautner

Liberalism in Israel: Between the ‘Good Person’ and the ‘Bad Citizen’ by Menachem Mautner

Sociology in the Garden: Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology 

by Nissim Mizrachi

Two Patterns of Modernization: An Analysis of the Ethnic Issue in Israel by Shlomo Fischer

Creating a Significant Community: Religious Engagements in the Film Ha-Mashgihim

(God’s Neighbors) by Merav Alush-Levron

A Woman of Valor Goes to Court by Yifat Bitton and Ella Glass

Afterword by Eilon Schwartz