Dr. Shlomo Fischer

Dr. Shlomo Fischer

Bio

Dr. Shlomo Fischer teaches sociology in the School of Education at Hebrew University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.He is also currently a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute. His research interests include the nexus of religion, politics and class in Israel, contemporary religion and the sociology of the Jewish people. He has published extensively on radical religious Zionism and the West Bank settlers as well as on the Shas movement. Fischer has worked in the field of education for the past 25 years. In the past 10 years he has worked in the field of religion, democracy and tolerance. He has edited (together with Adam Seligman) The Burden of Tolerance: Religious Traditions and the Challenge of Pluralism (Hebrew; HaKibbutz Hameuchad and the Van Leer Institute, 2007) which addresses these issues. From 1996-2007 he was the founder and Executive Director of Yesodot – Center for Torah and Democracy which works to advance education for democracy in the State-Religious school sector in Israel and was also one of the founders and is on the Board of the International Summer School for Religion and Public Life which is based in Boston, Mass. He is a graduate of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem.

Focus Areas and Research

Articles by Dr. Shlomo Fischer

Who was Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook?

Hamas out, Arab criminal gangs in?

A New Era for Evangelicals and Israel, a Bridge to Progressives?

A New Era for Evangelicals and Israel, a Bridge to Progressives?

American Evangelicals, Jews, and Israel

Religious Zionists against the Land of Israel

Axing the Oslo Accords Killed the Narrative, Not Just the Process

Managing the Growing Challenges to Jewish Cohesion

October 7 was a feature, not a bug

The Hostage Dilemma

Musk, Soros and Antisemitism “Under Erasure”

No peace, no shtreimel

The Lag BaOmer Bonfire and Cultural Depth

Israeli Politics is Undergoing Tectonic Change

Opinion: Engage Moderate Religious Zionists on Israeli Judicial Reform

Israel’s Haredi education system needs major reform

The State of Israel, the Diaspora, and the Nation-State Law

2021 Jewish World Dialogue – Executive Summary

Political Extremism and the Jews

One, Two, or Three Jewish Identities among Jewish Americans?

Antisemitism and its Impact on Jewish Identity

The Growth of the Haredi Communities in the Diaspora