While the history of Zionism in America is well documented, the history of non-Zionist activities in America is less well known. An Ambiguous Partnership now tells that story. Dr. Menahem Kaufman gives a detailed account of how American public figures and Jewish organizations, self-defined as non-Zionists, were influenced by changing attitudes in American society and government towards the Zionist struggle and by the problem of Holocaust survivors in Europe. This study describes the non-Zionists involvement in the political processes in Washington and the United Nations, which eventually brought about the establishment of the State of Israel.

What is life? What is death? Is the death penalty legitimate still? How does suicide fit in with survival instincts? Researchers representing the natural sciences, humanities, psychology, medicine and law, engage in fundamental questions concerning the nature of life and its value: Life and death; Is there extraterrestrial life; What is the will to live and how to understand suicide; Is there a significance and reason to life ; Perception of life as a biblical faith and Jewish thought; The status of the embryo in ancient times and in our time; The problem of the death penalty in the reality of life in Israel today; Dealing with the Finality of life; And "life after life" according to the Bible. Examining each of these aspects of the concept of 'life' continuously, reveals both the complexity of the subject and the complexity of the human spirit needed for it.

Since the Second World War, the importance of family has been lessening in the western world. The age of marriage is rising, couples living together out of wedlock and childless couples are rising in numbers and divorces are more frequent. The profile of the Israeli family is discussed in this book with regards to subjects such as demographic- statistic infrastructure, the biblical family model, historical circumstances such as the Holocaust, wars, and immigration etc.

This book focuses on the Muslim, Christian and Jewish neighborhoods outside the walls of old Jerusalem during the final decades of Ottoman rule in Palestine. Prof. Kark reviews the conditions that influenced the building of the new neighborhoods: availability and price of land, construction costs, rental rates, and the nature of the initiatives behind the ventures. The book also focuses on physical and social planning of modern construction in Jerusalem and considers the unique phenomenon of Jewish neighborhood by-laws. The author shows how the physical, economic and especially social neighborhood planning embodied in these guidelines, based partly on Jewish legal tradition, were quite advanced compared to prevailing European, American and no doubt Ottoman towns of the same period.

The book studied here was chosen because of its importance in Hasidism and because it is one of the first books published about this movement. This publication helps to understand the text in MAGGID DEVARAV LE-YA’AKOV and answer questions about Hasidism in the 18th century- Its roots, its objectors and followers, its relationship with the Haskalah and Zionism movements and more.

The articles presented in these two volumes cover a wide range of topic interests, pertaining to the various disciplines which are currently active within the vast field of Egyptology. Covered are such subjects as philological, models, linguistics (e.g., structuralism pragmatism, semiotics), ties between Hittite and Egyptian sources, between Canaanite and Egyptian sources, legal texts, Demotic texts, philosophical and theological models, archaeological finds, historical geography, and additional inter-disciplinary topics.