Yoske (Yosef) Achituv (z”l), a former research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, taught Judaic studies at Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati and the Ya’akov Herzog Center at Ein Zurim; formerly, Yoske was principal of the Kibbutz HaDati High School.
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In his research Yoske examined mythic and other perspectives on the nature of ‘woman’ and the significance of sexuality in rabbinic literature.
He authored On the Frontier of Change: The Meaning of Judaism in Modern Times (1995) and published several journal articles on the subject of change and development in religious Zionism. Yoske received an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University for his contributions to religious Zionism and the Religious Kibbutz Movement.
Yoske Achituv died June 5, 2012.
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