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11 Jewish L. Rep. 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/jwlrpt11 and id is 1 raw text is: TOURO COLLEGE JACOB D. FUCHSBERG LAW CENTER Chaim Povarsky, Director Institute of Jewish Law Advisory Council Dov Frimer Menachem Genack Howard A.Glickstein Aaron Kirschenbaum Sidney Kwestel Daniel Lander Nahum Rakover Martin Ritholz Executive Committee Ilene Barshay Richard Klein Sidney Kwestel Ken Rosenblum Jeffrey Roth Thomas Schweitzer Rena Seplowitz Daniel Subotnik Dr. Bernard Lander, President Touro College Howard A. Glickstein, Dean Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Institute of Jewish Law Jewish Law Report Editor: Dr. Chaim Povarsky December 1998 Table of Contents Democracy and Religion: Are they Reconcilable? Activities of the Institute Current Events in Academia Responsa Literature and Commentary: A. The Legitimacy of a Workers' Strike Under Jewish Law DEMOCRACY AND RELIGION, ARE THEY RECONCILABLE? (Symposium held in April 1998 at Touro Law Center) Vice Dean Eileen Kaufman: I am delighted to welcome you here tonight for one of a series of excellent programs sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Law. Tonight's program is entitled, Democracy and Religion, Are They Reconcilable? and it is supported by the Lillie Goldstein Charitable Trust. The issues that tonight's symposium addresses, while of obvious relevance to the State of Israel, are not confined to that country. For example, like Israel, India is celebrating its 50' anniversary, and with the recent election of what some consider to be a Hindu fundamentalist party, India is grappling with many of the issues that we will be discussing tonight: how to resolve the inherent tensions between religion and a democracy that sometimes pulls in a direction opposite from religion. These tensions were explored in Thomas Freedman's book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, published a number of years ago. In that book, he discusses the fact that the Zionist Jews who founded Israel had three basic objectives in mind: to create a Jewish state, to create a democratic state, and to create a state that is located in the historical homeland of the Jewish people. I think that we know that much of Israel's history over the last 50 years reveals the

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