MASORTIM AND MASORTIYUT IN ISRAEL

• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• PART 1 – MASORTIYUT IN ISRAEL: QUANTITATIVE, SOCIAL, AND ETHICAL ASPECTS
  • SECTION 1: WHO IS MASORTI?
    • Quantitative aspects
    • Social aspects
    • Political affiliation
    • Interim summing-up
  • Section 2: What do the Masortim think? Ethical aspects
    • Jewish and democratic
    • Israeli’s democratic values in Masorti eyes
    • Religion and state issues
    • Addendum: Pluralism, shared spaces, attitudes toward the Diaspora, and political views
    • Conclusion: The glue of Israeli society
• MASORTI DISCOURSES
  • Introduction
  • Section A: Three Masorti discourses
    • The victory of secularization and the collapse of secularism
    • Secularism and Israeli Masortiyut
    • The three wellsprings of contemporary Masortiyut and their characterization
  • Section B: Features common to the various Masorti discourses
    • Porous identity
    • Loyalty to tradition
    • Autonomy and interpretation
    • Moderate Jewish nationalism
  • Section C: Different approaches within the same space
    • The roots of Israeli Masortiyut and the continuity question
    • The boundaries of Jewish heritage
• AFTERWORDS: MASORTIYUT AND STRENGTHENING OF SHARED SOCIETY IN ISRAEL
• ENDNOTES