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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.

September 3, 2020

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

Yossi Shain, Daniel Goldman, Yehoshua Pfeffer

Between rabbinic rulings and public policy: a response from Daniel Goldman and Yossi Shain and a rejoinder from Yehoshua Pfeffer.

Fall 2020

Taking Responsibility: A Rejoinder

Yehoshua Pfeffer

Between rabbinic rulings and public policy: a response from Daniel Goldman and Yossi Shain and a rejoinder from Yehoshua Pfeffer.

Summer 2020

Holiness and Public Policy: The Haredi Response to COVID-19

Yehoshua Pfeffer

Bnei Brak, where yeshivot and synagogues were kept open far too long, accounted for 16 percent of all Israeli COVID-19 cases and a comparable percentage of fatalities despite comprising only 2 percent of the Israeli population. We haredim must radically rethink our approach to public policy—and holiness.

March 18, 2019

Why the Kotel Must Be Governed: A Response

Yehoshua Pfeffer

Just as soldiers in the IDF have no choice but to eat kosher food, the Jewish state makes decisions as to the nature of its consecrated sites: Jewish decisions.