TY - BOOK AU - Cohen,Stuart TI - Divine service?: Judaism and Israel's armed forces T2 - Religion and international security series SN - 1409466388 AV - BM538.S7 C64 2013 U1 - 296.3/827 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate Publishing KW - Judaism and state KW - Civil-military relations KW - Israel KW - Military law (Jewish law) KW - War (Jewish law) KW - War KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Judaïsme et État KW - Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire KW - Israël KW - Droit militaire (Droit juif) KW - Guerre KW - Aspect religieux KW - Judaïsme KW - RELIGION KW - Theology KW - bisacsh KW - Armed Forces KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. The legacy of ambivalence -- pt. 2. Adaptations and their price -- pt. 3. Tensions -- and their resolution? N2 - Soldiering, which for almost two millennia was almost entirely foreign to Jewish thought and practice, has by virtue of universal conscription become a rite of passage to citizenship in the Jewish state. For practicing orthodox Jews in Israel that change generates dilemmas that are intellectual as well as behavioural, and has necessitated both doctrinal and institutional adaptations. At the same time, the responses thus evoked are forcing Israel's decision-makers to reconsider the traditional role of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as their country's most evocative symbol of national unity UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=544974 ER -