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Topic: Religion in Israel

	The Future Role of Religion in Israel
		At the very least, Israel must produce an Orthodox rabbinate that is equipped to cope with the contemporary world, that is to say, rabbis who have a proper general as well as Jewish education and who know how to speak to the Israeli public.
		In Israel, where the daily expressions of religion are in the hands of baalei-batim and the rabbinate does not play a clerical role in the Western sense, this is, for them, a great mistake.
		What has been missing in Israel is a response on the part of the religious community to the current issues of Israel's foreign security and social agendas, out of their religious understanding.
	www.jcpa.org /dje/articles2/relinisr.htm (4389 words)

	Hebrew Religion - Israel's Contribution To Universal Religion
		Religion has to do with the relation of God and man so that the character of any religion is determined by its conception of God, of man, and of their connection.
		Leaders of thought in the present generation are at last apprehending the social message of the religion of Israel; but we listen long and hear faint echo in our generation of the higher truth of Hosea, Jeremiah, and the Suffering Servant, or of the hope of the fulfilment of life in the hereafter.
		Such were some aspects of Israel's conception of God and man which make her writings an ever-new revelation of the nature of God and of the possible destiny of man; but high and true conceptions of God and man do not of themselves make a religion, for religion involves conscious relation between God and man.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles28/hebrew-12.shtml (2423 words)

	BICOM - About Israel - Freedom Of Religion - Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre
		Israel - and indeed its capital, Jerusalem - is holy to all of the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
		Israel is one of the most open societies in the world, with a diverse religious make-up.
		In response to this ruling, Israel’s government, which at the time was supported by a coalition which included religious parties, advanced an amendment to the Municipalities Ordinances, which in fact reversed the court's decision and allowed the municipalities to forbid businesses' opening on the Sabbath.
	www.bicom.org.uk /about_israel/freedom_of_religion (1699 words)

	Israel, Religion Of, 1 - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		This religion was not of a strictly uniform nature, but is characterized by a development and a growth, and in the centuries which are covered by the Old Testament books it has passed through many changes.
		One of the recent results of the science of the history of religion is the knowledge that the religion of Israel itself, and not merely the corruptions of this religion, stood in a much closer connection with other religions than had in former times been supposed.
		Israel claims that its existence as a nation and its special relation to Yahweh begins with its exodus from Egypt and with the conclusion of the covenant at Mt. Sinai (compare Amos 3:2; 9:7).
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4705 (5867 words)

	Minorities in Israel
		Israel's declaration of independence guarantees that the government will "uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens without distinction of race, creed and sex." Approximately 20 percent of Israel's population, about one million people, are not Jewish, comprising primarily Arabic-speaking groups.
		The Druze religion is not accessible to outsiders and Druze constitute a separate cultural, social and religious Arabic-speaking community.
		At the time, however, Israel was still in a state of war and threatened by its Arab neighbors and it viewed the Arab population within its borders as a security threat.
	www.adl.org /israel/record/minorities.asp (469 words)

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		This was a year in which the sun set on the "religion of Palestinianism" in the world consciousness upon the death of its high priest.
		Therefore, as long as the Palestinians speak about "justice", it means they continue to refuse to critically examine their religion even after the death of the high priest, and there is no place for Israel and its current residents.
		All that is left for Israel opposite the Palestinians are unilateral measures, to distance itself and to protect itself from them and the religion of revolt they have created.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3159505,00.html (457 words)

	Israel: state and religion - Part I
		Israel: state and religion A discussion One of the most poignant difficulties of our time is the struggle between brothers — between religious and secular Jews — in Israel today.
		Israel does not have a formal written constitution and hence Judaism is not constitutionally enshrined as the official religion of the state of Israel.
		The present situation is that there are a number of officially recognized religions in Israel and if one belongs to any of these, one must marry in accordance with the laws of that religion.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1833 (2584 words)

	Israelite Religion to Judaism: the Evolution of the Religion of Israel by David Steinberg
		religion as a pan-human phenomenon of which one of the most interesting is evolutionary psychology.
		Religion as a phenomenon was unknown and would be incomprehensible to the Canaanites and Israelites.
		Israelite religions are the varied, symbolic expressions of, and appropriate responses to the deities and powers that groups or communities deliberately affirmed as being of unrestricted value to them within their world view.
	www.adath-shalom.ca /israelite_religion.htm (1241 words)

	Religion in Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christians are presently the smallest religious group and denomination of the Abrahamic religions in Israel.
		Israel considers them to be Christian missionaries whose main goal is to ensnare unsuspecting and ignorant Jews to convert to Christianity.
		In 2000 a Messianic synagogue/church was raided in Jerusalem [9] A congregation in Arad faced demonstrations and an arson attack in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religion_in_Israel (4023 words)

	Category List --- Religion-Online.org
		In her return to Israel the author discovered that the values of progressive Judaism and Zionism to which she was committed have been deeply eroded in the past decade by forces over which there seems to be little control.
		The use of religious validation to settle secular conflicts is a misuse of religion and a disservice to politics.
		According to Israel’s defenders, to speak on behalf of Palestinians is to seek Israel’s annihilation.
	www.religion-online.org /listbycategory.asp?Cat=75 (1103 words)

	Religion of Ancient Israel, The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It provides a carefully argued examination and reconstruction of ancient Israel's religion in light of the growing material findings of archaeology, current understandings of religious practices from the biblical texts, and recent studies of ancient iconography and comparative Semitics.
		Many studies of the religion of Israel emphasize one area of evidence with a disregard for others.
		He believes that the student of the religion of Israel gains a clearer picture of various areas or dimensions of Israel's beliefs and practices by taking each subject area in a systematic way, examining the OT records, bringing to bear ancient Near Eastern parallels, and developing socio-historical models for evidence that cry out for reconstruction.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200306/ai_n9243934 (896 words)

	Religion in Israel: A Consensus for Jewish Tradition
		In fact, Israel is hardly monolithic in any respect and enjoys a deeply rooted religious pluralism that must be recognized for what it is. Israel is a country with at least half a dozen different recognized religio-ethnic communities which in the Middle East are the primary manifestations of pluralism.
		Israel's Sephardim, many of whom are traditional, moderate, and more accepting of the contemporary world than the more militant Ashkenazi Orthodox, are not concerned with either of those issues.
		In Israel's part of the world, what counts are critical behavioral acts such as birth, marriage, and burial rites, and not necessarily for reasons of belief.
	www.jcpa.org /dje/articles2/relinisr-consensus.htm (2701 words)

	Israel - Judaism, Civil Religion, and the New Zionism
		In the prestate period, the civil religion of Jewish society was generally socialist, that is, Labor Zionism.
		Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s--roughly the period of Ben-Gurion's preeminence--a civil religion was fashioned by some factions of the political elite (led by Ben-Gurion himself), which sought to stress the new Israeli state as the object of ultimate value.
		This new right-wing civil religion affirmed traditional Judaism and denigrated modernistic secularism--the reverse of the earlier civil religion.
	countrystudies.us /israel/44.htm (1011 words)

	NATIV - Nov. 1999 - State and Religion in Israel
		Israel is only one of many ethnic democracies (such as Finland, Norway, Korea, etc. etc), that have one ethnic majority and one or several minorities that do not share ownership of the national territory.
		Israel’s identity as a Jewish nation is no less democratic than any other of these countries.
		The goals are to promote a higher level of awareness regarding Jewry’s historical-religious heritage among Israel’s Jewish citizens, and to make it possible for all major Jewish subgroups, that are devoted to promoting Jewish historical continuity, to identify with the State of Israel.
	www.acpr.org.il /NATIV/1999-6/sharanxs.htm (488 words)

	Israelite Religion
		Israelite Religion to Judaism: the Evolution of the Religion of
		The approach of the Deuteronomistic Historians is not at all dissimilar to the retrospective definition of Normative Judaism in the rabbinic tradition.
		Israel, and its constituent tribes, form after settlement in the hill country on the basis of geography.
	www.uscj.org /canadian/ottawaasc/israelite_religion.htm (4741 words)

	Travel to Egypt and Israel » Religion in Israel : (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2004, 76.2% of Israelis were Jews by religion, 16.1% were Muslims, 2.1% Christian, 1.6% Druze and the remaining 3.9% (including Russian immigrants and some Jews) were not classified by religion.[7] Israel is not a theocracy, and religions other than Judaism are supported.
		At the end of 2003, of Israel’s 6.7 million people, 76.7% were Jewish (by religion), 15.8% were Muslim, 2.1% were Christian, 1.6% were Druze and the remaining 3.7% (including Russian immigrants and some Jews) were not classified by religion.
		Religion and Demographics Jordan prides itself on its diverse population and the religious and cultural freedom and rights provided to all...
	travel.goto-egypt.com.cob-web.org:8888 /46/religion-in-israel (1072 words)

	BlueStarPR: Freedom of Religion in Israel (A8)
		In a region where many nations are becoming less diverse and less tolerant to minorities, Israel stands alone.
		Israel has the only growing Christian population in the Middle East and is home to an Islamic political party.
		Israel hasn't just given them religious freedom: it has allowed them to build their world centre and a wonderful series of gardens and religious buildings right in front of Mt Carmel.
	www.bluestarpr.com /000099.php (314 words)

	The Religion of Biblical Israel
		The religions of the various Mesopotamian civilizations were centered on polytheistic pantheons.
		At the moment, for many critical scholars, the evidence still tends to support the view that Israel began with a polytheistic religion similar to her neighbors and slowly evolved into monotheism.
		Its possible that Israel considered Yahweh to be the head of a pantheon of divine beings.
	www.lightplanet.com /judaism/biblical_israel.html (4957 words)

	Freemasonry in Israel - Freemasonry and Religion
		Topping it all off is the fact that the meeting place of a Masonic Lodge is usually referred to as a "Temple." This could very easily lead one to conclude that the candidate for Freemasonry is joining some kind of "sect" that is involved in a particular kind of religious worship.
		However, a "religion" is a system of worship of a particular god or gods.
		Finally, all religions have a "theology," or set of doctrines or beliefs supporting their views on man, the universe, and the hereafter.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/9991/religion.html (1014 words)

	Welcome to Rock of Israel Online
		In the ancient religion of Israel, the only way of approach to God was by the sacrifice of animals at the National Sanctuary.
		Under the Old Covenant, the religion of the Hebrews needed a priesthood taken from the descendants of Aaron to minister at the Altar, and in the Sanctuary.
		The religion of the Hebrews, under the Old Covenant, expected the coming of the Messiah Who would be called "The Son of David".
	www.rockofisrael.org /articles/a7.htm (768 words)

	Israel : In Depth : Religion \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Israel is special, if not sacred, to more faiths than is any other country in the world.
		Today for at least 15 different Jewish sects, several Christian sects, Muslims, Druze, Baha'is, Samaritans, Circassians, Karaites, Bedouins, and still others, Israel is holy, and although many of the groups claim the land as "their own," the differing faiths are practiced side by side.
		Christians traveling in Israel are often perplexed by certain Israeli Christian customs--entrance fees at holy shrines, or famous churches subdivided (with actual lines of demarcation on walls and floors) among different sects of Christianity.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/israel/0227020893.html (361 words)

	Elizabeth Willet: Women and Israelite House Religion
		In the subsistence agricultural setting of early Israel, when there was little craft specialization, women spun thread and wove textiles for their family households.
		The presence of ritual artifacts in the environs of women’s implements illustrates the importance of household religion to Israelite women’s daily life.
		The prophet Ahijah informs Jereboam’s wife that her child will die and God will punish Israel because they have made “asherahs” (1 Kgs 14:15); then “Jereboam’s wife went away back to Tirzah, and as she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died” (1 Kgs 14:17).
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/HouseReligion.htm (3066 words)

	Israelis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, as of May 2006, of Israel's 7 million people, 77% were Jews, 18.5% Arabs, and 4.3% "others".
		As of 2004, 224,200 of Israel's citizens lived in the West Bank in numerous Israeli settlements, (including towns such as Ma'ale Adummim and Ariel, and a handful of communities that were present long before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and were re-established after the Six-Day War such as Hebron and Gush Etzion).
		According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2004, 76.2% of Israelis were Jewish by religion (Judaism), 16.1% were Muslims, 2.1% Christian, 1.6% Druze and the remaining 3.9% (including Russian immigrants and some ethnic Jews) were not classified by religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israelis (656 words)

	Israel, Religion Of, 1 (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		The Religion of Israel before the 8th Century BC (1) Decay of Religion in Canaan
		But these dolls, modeled after the form of human beings, already in the period of the Patriarchs were regarded as a foreign element and in contradiction to the more earnest religious sentiments (compare Genesis 31:19; Genesis 35:2, Genesis 35:4).
		Israel claims that its existence as a nation and its special relation to Yahweh begins with its exodus from Egypt and with the conclusion of the covenant at Mt. Sinai (compare Amos 3:2; Amos 9:7).
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/4705 (6076 words)

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