{"id":26964,"date":"2021-03-04T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26964"},"modified":"2021-03-04T18:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:36:34","slug":"ono-scholars-ask-the-tough-questions-about-higher-education-for-ultra-orthodox-jews-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/ono-scholars-ask-the-tough-questions-about-higher-education-for-ultra-orthodox-jews-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Scholars Ask the Tough Questions About Higher Education for Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"attachment_26965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26965\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Tova-Hartman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Tova-Hartman-1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Tova-Hartman-1-218x218.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Tova Hartman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26966\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/HAIM-ZICHERMAN-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Chaim Zicherman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a recent article published in Emory University\u2019s <em>Journal of Law and Religion<\/em>, Ono faculty, Professor Tova Hartman, Dean of Humanities, and Dr. Chaim Zicherman, Director of the Ultra-Orthodox Campus describe the current state of higher education for Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox Jews) in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The article addresses the question: can a liberal democracy tolerate gender-segregated higher education?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The authors note that over the past two decades, a number of Israeli institutions of higher education have opened gender-segregated programs for the ultra-Orthodox, or haredim. The growth of these programs has generated an intense debate in Israel, reflected throughout Israeli media and in several appeals to Israel\u2019s Supreme Court. The issues raised concerning gender-segregated higher education reflect an overarching inquiry that is of great interest to multicultural theoreticians: the relationship of liberal democracies to their illiberal minorities. Multicultural theoreticians agree that healthy democracies must tolerate some illiberal practices while acknowledging that not every illiberal practice can be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The article can be found on the website of Cambridge University Press at the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-law-and-religion\/article\/abs\/higher-education-for-haredim-in-israel\/B42FBB0B42CE3D5201881CA96C8450BB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-law-and-religion\/article\/abs\/higher-education-for-haredim-in-israel\/B42FBB0B42CE3D5201881CA96C8450BB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article published in Emory University\u2019s Journal of Law and Religion, Ono faculty, Professor Tova Hartman, Dean of Humanities, and Dr. Chaim Zicherman, Director of the Ultra-Orthodox Campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":131,"template":"","class_list":["post-26964","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}