Prof. Gideon Aran: Haredi Jewish Fundamentalism
When purist and pushing their logic to its limits, the extreme Haredi positions are self-contradictory if implemented. Implementing their...
Gideon Aran - THE ROOTS OF GUSH EMUNIM
In the seventies, somewhere during the period of disillusionment and dissatisfaction that followed the Yom-Kippur war, I was a research...
Gideon Aran: career as Haredi recruits
The CO of the battalion and many of its officers – some of whom began their career as Haredi recruits – wear skull caps and beards. The...
Prof Gideon Aran: Body, Violence and Fundamentalism/Introduction
We are now twenty or thirty years after the eruption of fundamentalism onto the global stage. Since the spectacular events that made...
LECTURE BY GIDEON ARAN : “THE LEGACY OF RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN JUDAISM”
The lecture discusses the Jewish case of religious violence. This by no means implies that Judaism is more (or less) violent than any...
Gideon Aran: Body, Violence and Fundamentalism – Introduction
We are now twenty or thirty years after the eruption of fundamentalism onto the global stage. Since the spectacular events that made...