State, Power, Religious Control: How COVID-19 Raises New Political Questions: An Exchange

In our Summer 2020 issue, Yehoshua Pfeffer explored the haredi response to COVID-19. Pfeffer’s original article can be found here.

Yossi Shain and Daniel Goldman penned an interesting response to that article which can be found here, and Yehoshua Pfeffer’s rejoinder can be found here.

About the Authors

Yossi Shain, Daniel Goldman, Yehoshua Pfeffer

Yossi Shain is head of Tel Aviv University’s School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs and professor emeritus of government at Georgetown University. His latest book, The Israeli Century and the Israelization of Judaism (in Hebrew), was a bestseller in Israel. It will be published in the United States later this year.

 

Daniel Goldman is chairman of LeShem and cochairs The Coalition for Haredi Employment. He is the founding partner of Goldrock Capital.

 

Yehoshua Pfeffer is the editor of Tzarich Iyun, a leading haredi publication of criticism and ideas; a community rabbi; and the director of the haredi division of the Tikvah Fund in Israel.

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