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The Tribes of Israel: A Shared Homeland for a Divided People

Background Readings  

Unit 1: The Jewish People as a Tribal Family

1. "The Religious Significance of Religious Pluralism" by David Hartman in Judaism and the Challenges of Modern Life, Eds. Moshe Halbertal and Donniel Hartman 

Unit 4: The Arab Palestinian Israeli Tribe

1. Sammy Smooha, Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel 2003-2009

Unit 5: The North American Jewish Tribes

1. Jewish Community Study of New York (2011)

2. American Jewish Identity Survey (2001)

3. Steven Cohen and Arnold Eisen, The Jew Within, Chapter 1

4. A Portrait of Jewish Americans: Findings from a Pew Research Survey of U.S. Jews (2013)

5. "What Is To be Done? Policy Responses to the Shrinking Jewish Middle" by Steven M. Cohen (2014)

6. Do Endless Denominational Turf Wars Even Matter Anymore? by Jay Michaelson

Unit 6: Unity and Diversity in the Jewish Tradition  

1. Donniel Hartman, The Boundaries of Judaism, Chapter 1

Unit 9: Sharing the Public Sphere: New Foundations for a Jewish Democracy

1. Moment Magazine Symposium: Can Religious Pluralism and an Official Rabbinate Coexist in Israel? (2014)