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  The University of Florida in Jerusalem
The University of Florida at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The University of Florida in
Jerusalem, July 15 - August 15, 2014. For more
information, see the UF
in Jerusalem flier. Several scholarships are available for this
program, including those listed on the flier. You may also contact Caryn
Schuster at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem New
York office regarding need-based scholarships. Spend
your summer traveling, working, doing internships, etc., and end it
with an intensive immersion in Israeli politics, culture, and society!
Program Theme: Israel as Multi-Cultural Society
The program will be run similarly to a conference. It is an
intensive study program. Students spend
three days per week in the classroom, and two days per week on guided lecture
tours. The
courses and travel tours will expose students to Israeli
culture, literature, politics, and society at elite levels, across
economic groups, and across a wide range of the ethnic groups
represented in this immigrant melting pot society. Courses: CPO
4000 Israel Politics (3 credits, UF credit) (UF Gen Ed designation: N -
International; and S - Social and Behavioral Sciences) HBR 4936 Israeli Culture (3 credits, UF credit) Language
(3 Credits, transfer credit from Hebrew University): Hebrew
Language, all levels; Arabic Language may be available as an
option -- we will know soon!
All courses are taught on-site in Jerusalem.
They include lecture tours inside Jerusalem, in the Galilee, and in Tel
Aviv/Yaffo. Focusing on the theme of
Israel as a multicultural society, the Politics course and the Culture course introduce students to the wide
range of peoples, politics, and culture represented in Israel. Israel is an immigrant country with the
numerical majority of Jews before 1989 originating in the Middle East and North
Africa. For
most of these people, Arabic was their first language (or, in some
cases, Persian, Amharic, Turkish, etc.). Today, Israel’s
population also
includes a significant Russian population, and it is increasingly a
population
in which people are born in Israel rather than having immigrated (in
2011,
approximately 38.6% both self and father born in Israel). Approximately 36% of the overall Israeli population
(Jewish and Other) originate in Europe (east and west) or "America." The Arab-Israeli population is
about 20.5% and includes Muslim communities, ten Christian jurisdictions, Druze,
and other religions and cultural groups.
Israel is a younger population than most Western countries with
approximately 28.2% of the population age 14 and under, and 10.3% of the
population over age 65 (this is by comparison to 18.5% and 15%, respectively,
for OECD countries). Median age was 29.5
years old in 2011. (Numbers taken from
the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Population Report, 2011). Israel
is thus a fascinating, young, and
multicultural context in which UF students can see how these
populations live
together, conduct their politics, write literature, buy at open
markets, and
otherwise engage the modern world in a place dating to the ancient
period. Hebrew language is offered at all levels and provides
students with an opportunity to introduce themselves to the basics of a
language with Biblical and ancient roots, one that has had a
significant impact on Western civilization. Arabic language may
be an option -- we will know soon! Both Hebrew and Arabic
language programs at Hebrew University are stellar programs.
Upon returning to UF, students will work with their language
program director to find out where they can be most appropriately
placed in the next level of language. Students taking the
program for fun or for general interest will have had a brief,
intensive exposure to language, politics, and culture that, we hope,
will have a long-lasting impact on their own thinking!
All students are encouraged to apply!
Students will stay in the International Dorms
on the Mount Scopus campus. Grocery
stores, cafes, cafeterias, restaurants, and ATM cash machines are all readily
available on campus and near the dorms.
A Hebrew University counselor with fluent English and Hebrew will be
available 24 hours/day for UF in Jerusalem
students.
CONTACTS: Patricia
J. Woods, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Political Science and Jewish
Studies, Program Director UF in Jerusalem, Office tel: 352-273-2370,
pjwoods@ufl.edu Dror
Abend-David, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Languages, Program Director
UF in Jerusalem, Office tel: 352-846-3845, dabend@ufl.edu UF International Center
Study Abroad Advisor, Lauren Strange, Office tel: 352-273-1508, lstrange@ufic.ufl.edu Caryn
Schuster, Administrative Manager, Office of Academic Affairs, Rothberg
International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, New York Office,
Office tel: 212-607-8523, cschuster@hebrewu.com
 Photo of Robinson's Arch, Jerusalem, Copyright (c) 1995 by Patricia J. Woods
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Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel
By Patricia J. Woods
"This
well-written book makes an important contribution by pushing the
analysis of the controversies surrounding judicial
intervention/activism to take ideas seriously. It provides a very
persuasive account of Israel's High Court of Justice's involvement in
religious issues and the key role of the judicial community in
precipitating that involvement. At the same time, Woods attends to the
roles of institutional factors and social movements in facilitating the
controversial rights actions/decisions of the HCJ. This book is a must
read for scholars of law and politics."
-- Austin Sarat, Amherst College
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"The
author's notion of an extended judicial community of judges, academic
lawyers, and cause lawyers is a major move forward in the 'new
institutionalism' in the study of law and courts."
-- Martin Shapiro, Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley ----- “Her study of Israeli judicial politics is shrewd, sophisticated, culturally
sensitive, and historically grounded … Judicial Power and National
Politics is a welcome addition to the scholarship on comparative judicial
politics, and Patricia Woods is a welcome new voice in the field … The impact of
her work will cut across subfields and enrich the political science discipline.”
— Judith A. Baer, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, for The Law and Politics Book Review
Uses the case of Israel to examine the circumstances that lead national courts to engage heated political issues.
Publisher Summary:
Patricia
J. Woods examines a controversial issue in the politics of many
countries around the world: the increasing role that courts and
justices have played in deeply charged political battles. Through an
extensive case study of the religious-secular conflict in Israel, she
argues that the most important determining factor explaining when, why,
and how national courts enter into the world of divisive politics is
found in the intellectual or judicial communities with whom justices
live, work, and think about the law on a daily basis. The interaction
among members of this community, Woods maintains, is an organic,
sociological process of intellectual exchange. Over time, it culminates
in new legal norms. These legal norms may, through court cases, become binding legal
principles. Given the right conditions -- electoral democracy, basic
judicial independence, and some institutional constraints -- courts may
use these new legal norms as the basis for a jurisprudence that
justifies hearing controversial cases and allows for creative answers
to major issues of national political contention.
Available now from State University of New York Press.
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Forthcoming,
“Doing Daily Battle: Women’s Movement
Mobilization in Israel,” in Judaism in
the Twenty First Century: The New Scholarship on Israel, edited by
Frederick Greenspahn, Eminent Scholar of Judaic Studies, Florida Atlantic
University. New York University Press. 2013. “The Politics of Fracture: Identity, Difference, and Fissures
in the Image of a Singular, Unified Israeli State” in The Everyday Life of the State: A State-in-Society
Approach, edited by Adam White, University of York. University of Washington
Press, 2013. - "Comparative
Sources of Judicial Empowerment: Ideas and Institutions" a
mini-symbosium edited by Lisa Hilbink and Patricia J. Woods, December
2009, Political Research Quarterly.
- "Comparative Sources of Judicial Empowerment: Ideas and Interests,"
by Patricia J. Woods and Lisa Hilbink, introduction to a mini-symposium
by edited Lisa Hilbink and Patricia J. Woods, Political Research
Quarterly, December 2009.
- "The Ideational Roots of Israel's Constitutional Revolution"
by Patricia J. Woods in "Comparative Sources of Judicial Empowerment:
Ideas and Institutions" a mini-symposium edited by Lisa Hilbink and
Patricia J. Woods, Political Research Quarterly, December 2009.
- "Cause
Lawyers as Knowledge Holders and Legal Innovators With And Against the State:
Symbiosis or Oppositon?" co-authored with Scott W. Barclay, in:
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 45 (2008): 203-234.
- "Judicial Power and National Politics," my essay in Secular Culture and Ideas, a publication of JBooks, July 2008:
http://www.jbooks.com/secularculture/woods.htm
- “Cause
Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative
Community” in The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal
Practice, edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, Stanford University
Press, 2005.
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"It’s Israeli After
All: A Survey of Israeli Women’s Movement Volunteers" Israel Studies Forum 19:2 (April 2004).
- "Gender and the Reproduction and Maintenance of
Group Boundaries: Why the 'Secular' State Matters to Religious Authorities in Israel,"
in Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape
Identities and Local Practices, Joel S. Migdal, ed., Cambridge University
Press, March 2004.
- “Normes juridiques et changement politique en Israël” Droit et Société
55:3 (December 2003) (Paris, published in French translation) (link to English version).
- “Prayer, Contentious Politics, and the Women of the Wall:
The Benefits of Collaboration in Participant Observation at Intense,
Multi-Focal Events” with Steven Mazie in Field
Methods 15:1 (February 2003): 25-50.
Above: The Dome of the Rock from the Muslim Quarter, Jerusalem Photo
© 1995 by Patricia J. Woods
Images of Jerusalem
(Below) All photos Copyright (c) by Patricia J. Woods.
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