CONTENTS

Preface Gideon Katz, Shalom Ratzabi, Yaakov Yadgar 1

Beginnings Tsafi Sebba-Elran Honi the Circle Drawer and the Two Thousand Year Sleep 5 Roni Beer-Marx Orthodoxy’s Attitude towards the Hebrew Language: The Case of HaLevanon Periodical 35 Gideon Katz Superficial Identity and the Secularization of Judaism in Altneuland 50 Nicham Ross The Attack on ‘Neo-Hasidism’ in Religious Zionist Yeshivot 65 Einat Ramon Cultural Zionism as an Alternative to Reform in Ahad Ha’am’s Writings 108

Secularism and Post-Secularism Yuval Jobani Jewish Secularisms: Philosophical and Educational Perspectives 141 Avner Dinur Secular Theology: Israeli Secular Criticism through the Prism of Hans Jonas’ Thought 160 Hagar Lahav Post-Secular Theology and the Jewish-Feminist Discourse in Israel 185 Hanoch Ben-Pazi Levinas in the Wake of Buber: From Spiritual Regeneration to a Moral and Just Society 214

Way of Life Anna Prashizky Inventing Jewish Rituals: Non-Orthodox Marriage and Funeral Rites in Israel 242 Oded Bar Between Tradition and Renewal: The First Anniversary of the Liberation of Safed and the Hilula in Meron, 1949 284 Naama Azulay & The Jewish-Zionist Discourse in Young Ephraim Tabory Task-Oriented Secular Communities in Israel 311 Orit Hirsch Secular Women in the Messianic Chabad Movement 347 Hadas Shadar & The Baba Sali Facility in Netivot as a Reflection Liat Vardi of Society 371 Traditionalism and ‘Soft’ Religiosity Arie Kizel Secular and Traditional Mizrahi Caught in the Israeli Narrative Struggle 401 Asaf Sharabi ‘Soft’ Religion and ‘Strict’ Religion: The Teshuvah Movement in Israel 434 Asaf Leibovitch Spiritual Traditionalists: A New Social Movement and the Israeli Identity Today 461

New Age Culture Marianna A Channeler, A Healer, and A Shaman Meet Ruah-Midbar at the Rabbi’s: Israeli Judaism(s) in the New Age 498 Ron Margolin Was Josef Schächter the Prophet of the New Age Movement in Israel? 529 Rachel Werczberger The Identity Narrative of the Proponents of Jewish-Spiritual Renewal in Israel 555

Changes Reflected in Art Yael Guilat Gender, Ritual and Video Art 580 Dror Burstein An Introduction to Zen-Buddhist Reading in Yoel Hoffmann’s Writings 612

List of Participants 625

English Abstracts i