For God and Country?
Subtitle: Religious Student-Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780292758513
Subjects: War, religious aspects; Judaism; Soldiers, religious life; Israel, religion
Description: Examines preservice study programs offered to Orthodox Jews, which serve as mediating structures between the demands of religious Zionism and the demands of the Israel Defense Forces without encouraging the students to disobey military orders in preference to commands of their rabbis.