The 5th Annual Conference   Religion and Government: Jews, Christians, Muslims
Tuesday-Wednesday, December 2015, 29-30
at
The Open University of Israel,1 University Road, Raanana 

Tuesday, December 29

10:30  Gathering and refreshments

10:30 1st Session (Opening): Law, Gender and the Welfare State 
Chair: Prof. Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel (Outgoing Director of JCMcenter)
Greetings: Prof. Mustafa Kabha, Director, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims (JCMcenter)


Niva Golan-Nadir, Division of Government and Political Theory, School of Political Science, University of Haifa
Marriage Regulation in Israel and Turkey: The Interplay between Institutional Dynamics and Public Preferences

Prof. Ruth Roded, Islam and Middle East History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A Muslim and a Jewish State Step in to Financially Support Women According to their Religion - Egypt and Israel


14:00 2nd Session: Religion and Political Power: Theoretical Concerns
Chair: Dr. Ishay Landa, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies,
The Open University of Israel
 
Dr. Netanel Fisher, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communications,
The Open University of Israel
The Fundamentalist Dilemma – Lessons from the Israeli Haredi Case

Dr.  Nissim Leon, The Department for Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University,
and Dr. Hizky Shoham, The Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies,
Bar Ilan University
Belonging without Commitment: A Muslim-Jewish Point of View on the Theorizing of Modern Religion

Dr. Nitai Shinan, The National Library of Israel
On Liberty, Progress and Fatalism: Emilio Castelar and the Monotheistic Religions


15:30 Coffee break

15:45 3rd Session: Guest Lecture (Session in English)
Chair: Prof. Haim Saadoun, Dean of Academic Studies, The Open University of Israel
 
Prof. Daniel J. Schroeter, the Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Jews, Muslims, and Colonialism: Shifting Power Relations in North Africa under Vichy Rule during World War II


17:00 4th  Session: Religious Leaders in a Colonial Context
Chair: Prof. Guy Miron, Chair, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies,
The Open University of Israel
 
Dr. Yuval Haruvi, The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Tel Aviv University
The Attitude of the Tunisian Ulama and Rabbis towards the French-Colonial Regime

Dr. Yaron Naim, Amit Schools
"The goodness and the grace, the peace and serenity, the justice and equality that we have, always come to us from the greater government of France," Rabbi Moshe Khalfon H'Kohen, From Djerba - between Rejection of the Alliance and Acceptance of French Principles


18:30 Reception for conference participants

Wednesday, December 30

09:30 Gathering and refreshments

10:00 5th Session: The Bloody Triangle
Chair: Dr. Ophir Münz-Manor, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies,
The Open University of Israel
 
Dr. Raz Mustigman, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
The Persecution of Christians and Jews in the Time of Trajan and Hadrian

Dr. Jonathan Bourgel, Kibbutzim College of Education Technology & Arts 
James the Just, One Among Many Oblias 

Dr. David (Dmitry) Kopeliovich, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies,
The Open University of Israel
Was the Prophet Jeremiah a Martyr? Between the Martyr Motif and the Prophet Persecution Motif in the Bible and in Post-Biblical Jewish and Christian Traditions

Dr. Rivka Nir, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies ,The Open University of Israel
John the Baptist – a Jewish or Christian Martyr?


12:00 Lunch

13:30 6th Session: Minority Communities and Majority Rule
Chair: Prof. Menachem Fisch, Joseph and Ceil Mazer Prof. of  History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies, Tel Aviv University
 
Dr. Anat Vaturi, The Department of General History, University of Haifa
Reestablishing the Status Quo: Religion and Rule in Minorities' Reaction to Anti-Jewish and Anti-Protestant Tumults in Post-Reformation Cracow

Dr. Ronen Zeidel, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 
Tel Aviv University
Following the Jews: The  Liberal Muslim-Christian Intellectual Debate in Iraq Today

Dr. Michael Ehrlich, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University
From Nachmanides to Ishtori Ha-Parkhi: The Establishment of the Non-Muslims Communities in Mamluk Jerusalem


15:00 Coffee break

15:45 7th Session: Ritual and Its Limitations in Israel
Chair: Prof. Mustafa Kabha, Director, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, Muslims
 
Prof. (Emeritus) Moshe Ma'oz, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies,
The  Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Al-Haram Al-Sharif/The Temple Mount and the Emerging Muslim-Jewish Religious Conflict

Prof.  Doron Bar, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
Muslim Sanctity under Israeli Rule – Sheikh Tombs in the State of Israel

Shai Wineapple and Prof. Ruth Kark, Department of Historical Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Relationship between the Christian Mission and the State of Israel as a Modern Jewish Nation State: Israel's Response to Christian Missionary Activity, 1948-2008


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