Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1070442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nesya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubinstein-Shemer |
| SIGNATURE | RUBINSTEIN-SHEMER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7614-206X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arab-Israeli Mix: Low-scale Protests and the Increase in Terrorism Following the Outbreak of the Swords of Iron War
This article seeks to examine the behavior patterns of the Arab society in Israel since the Israel-Hamas War began in October 2023. The uniqueness of this population is the ethnic-national and religious differences between it and the Jewish majority and their identification with the Palestinians. Theoretically, the behavior patterns will be analyzed using a model of three variables: religion, citizenship, and nationality. This qualitative study, …
Close but no Cigar: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023
This essay represents the continuation of my research, on the Hamas Organization's novel methods of psychological warfare against Israel. The previous article, which covered the period between 2007 and 2014, demonstrated the relative clumsiness of Hamas's attempts to influence Israeli public opinion. In the current study, which covers the period from 2014-October 2023, we examine Hamas's attempts to improve its methodology, inter alia through the…
Attitudes of Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders Towards the Declaration of Principles as a Test Case for Judaism and Islam between Peace and Conflict
The Declaration of Principles (Oslo I Accord, September 1993) was the inaugural groundbreaking agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian Identity conflict, which revolves around consecrated territory as well as identity components on both sides. This historic accord elicited myriad responses, yet the stances of religious figures are particularly consequential given the profound and intricate religious underpinnings of the conflict. This paper presents…
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): An analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)
Hamas invests vast resources in propaganda for a number of diverse audiences, harnessing the communications channels it operates on different media platforms. Over the course of the many years of the Israel-Hamas confrontation, the organization has waged psychological warfare and an ongoing propaganda war against Israeli society, seeking to influence Israelis’ perceptions and feelings. However, there is reason to doubt the effectiveness of this a…
You Are All Soldiers in the Battle against the Corona Virus and Your Commander Is the Prophet Muḥammad: The Fatwās of Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr Regarding Covid-19
This article deals with the rulings of Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr, who served as a mediator between the Israeli government and the Muslim community over the course of the pandemic. As a senior leader and scholar of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr's fatwās have historically addressed the unique circumstances and situational difficulties faced by Muslims living in Israel
Because of Your Beard I Can Talk to You: Rabbi Froman as Crisis Mediator between Israelis and Palestinians
The subject of this essay is the role Rabbi Menachem Froman played as a mediator in crises between Israelis and Palestinians against the background of his interreligious vision of peace and attempts to implement it. Rabbi Froman was very active in this matter and initiated various schemes to promote reconciliation between the Israelis and Palestinians, both in his discussions with religious leaders of the two peoples as well as with politicians i…
Jews for ʿAlī: Rabbinic Support for the Waṣiyy in Majlisī’s Biḥār al-Anwār
What is a creature within a creature, with no consanguinity or kinship between them? Upon what place did the sunshine once, but then never again? These and host of other Judeo-ʿ Alīd brain-teasers are adduced by the seventeenth-century Shiʿite encyclopedist Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī in order to shore up the most pristine and essential of Shiʿite claims: that ʿ Alī should have been the successor to the Prophet Muḥammad. The material examined in th…
Fatwās for an Unprecedented Minority: Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr and the fiqh of Medical Transplantation for Muslims Living in Israel
This article deals with legal opinions ( fatwā s) for Muslims living in Israel as a minority under non-Muslim rule. A well-developed legal doctrine known as fiqh al-aqalliyyāt al-muslima (jurisprudence concerning Muslim minorities) applies to Muslim minorities living in the West. The innovators of fiqh al-aqalliyyāt , Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī and Ṭaha Jābir al-ʿAlwānī, did not issue legal opinions for the Muslim minority living in Israel, which, because…
God’s most beautiful name is peace’: Rabbi Menachem Froman’s vision of inter-religious peace between Israelis and Palestinians
Rabbi Menachem Froman was a foremost religious peace activist who sought to promote Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation through conversations with religious leaders of the two peoples and discussions with politicians in Israel and the world. This article examines his vision of inter-religious peace and his attempts to realise this vision, using archival materials revealed after his death in 2013 as well as his previously published philosophical mu…
Sheikh Ahmad Raysuni on peace agreements with Israel
This article presents the position towards Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel of Sheikh Dr. Ahmad al-Raysuni, the Moroccan scholar who is the current president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). It discusses Raysuni’s legal rulings on normalisation and peace agreement with Israel, as well as his pragmatic legal opinion about Muslims living in Israel. The latter is contrasted with that of the former president of the IUMS, Sh…
Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
One of the interesting developments engendered by the challenge of modernity to tradition is a growing sense of common cause among the world’s major religions as they confront this latest and perhaps greatest threat to their existence. Humanity’s spiritual and metaphysical systems, embattled on a variety of fronts by the inroads of science, democracy, utilitarianism, and egalitarianism, have deployed similar methods in order to strike back: criti…
The Qur'anic Mary in the Light of Rabbinic Texts
This article deals with the identity of the figure of Maryam, who is mentioned numerous times in the Qur'an. Maryam is called in the holy book of Islam the ‘sister of Aaron’ and ‘the daughter of ʿImrān’, and is also described as the mother of Jesus. This seeming contradiction regarding Maryam's identity has occupied classical Qur’an commentators as well as modern researchers. This article tracks the changes in Western research on the Qur'an regar…
Sheikh Yusuf Qaraḍawi: Anti-Zionist or anti-Semite
This article discusses Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaraḍawi’s approach toward Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel. Using Irwin Cotler’s nine-point definition of anti-Semitism, it will endeavour to position Qaraḍawi’s on an anti-Semitism-anti-Zionism scale
God’s most beautiful name is peace’: Rabbi Menachem Froman’s vision of inter-religious peace between Israelis and Palestinians
Rabbi Menachem Froman was a foremost religious peace activist who sought to promote Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation through conversations with religious leaders of the two peoples and discussions with politicians in Israel and the world. This article examines his vision of inter-religious peace and his attempts to realise this vision, using archival materials revealed after his death in 2013 as well as his previously published philosophical mu…
Sheikh Yusuf Qaraḍawi: Anti-Zionist or anti-Semite
This article discusses Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaraḍawi’s approach toward Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel. Using Irwin Cotler’s nine-point definition of anti-Semitism, it will endeavour to position Qaraḍawi’s on an anti-Semitism-anti-Zionism scale
Arab-Israeli Mix: Low-scale Protests and the Increase in Terrorism Following the Outbreak of the Swords of Iron War
This article seeks to examine the behavior patterns of the Arab society in Israel since the Israel-Hamas War began in October 2023. The uniqueness of this population is the ethnic-national and religious differences between it and the Jewish majority and their identification with the Palestinians. Theoretically, the behavior patterns will be analyzed using a model of three variables: religion, citizenship, and nationality. This qualitative study, …
Close but no Cigar: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023
This essay represents the continuation of my research, on the Hamas Organization's novel methods of psychological warfare against Israel. The previous article, which covered the period between 2007 and 2014, demonstrated the relative clumsiness of Hamas's attempts to influence Israeli public opinion. In the current study, which covers the period from 2014-October 2023, we examine Hamas's attempts to improve its methodology, inter alia through the…
Sheikh Yusuf Qaraḍawi: Anti-Zionist or anti-Semite
This article discusses Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaraḍawi’s approach toward Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel. Using Irwin Cotler’s nine-point definition of anti-Semitism, it will endeavour to position Qaraḍawi’s on an anti-Semitism-anti-Zionism scale
God’s most beautiful name is peace’: Rabbi Menachem Froman’s vision of inter-religious peace between Israelis and Palestinians
Rabbi Menachem Froman was a foremost religious peace activist who sought to promote Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation through conversations with religious leaders of the two peoples and discussions with politicians in Israel and the world. This article examines his vision of inter-religious peace and his attempts to realise this vision, using archival materials revealed after his death in 2013 as well as his previously published philosophical mu…
Sheikh Ahmad Raysuni on peace agreements with Israel
This article presents the position towards Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel of Sheikh Dr. Ahmad al-Raysuni, the Moroccan scholar who is the current president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). It discusses Raysuni’s legal rulings on normalisation and peace agreement with Israel, as well as his pragmatic legal opinion about Muslims living in Israel. The latter is contrasted with that of the former president of the IUMS, Sh…
Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
One of the interesting developments engendered by the challenge of modernity to tradition is a growing sense of common cause among the world’s major religions as they confront this latest and perhaps greatest threat to their existence. Humanity’s spiritual and metaphysical systems, embattled on a variety of fronts by the inroads of science, democracy, utilitarianism, and egalitarianism, have deployed similar methods in order to strike back: criti…
The Qur'anic Mary in the Light of Rabbinic Texts
This article deals with the identity of the figure of Maryam, who is mentioned numerous times in the Qur'an. Maryam is called in the holy book of Islam the ‘sister of Aaron’ and ‘the daughter of ʿImrān’, and is also described as the mother of Jesus. This seeming contradiction regarding Maryam's identity has occupied classical Qur’an commentators as well as modern researchers. This article tracks the changes in Western research on the Qur'an regar…
Jews for ʿAlī: Rabbinic Support for the Waṣiyy in Majlisī’s Biḥār al-Anwār
What is a creature within a creature, with no consanguinity or kinship between them? Upon what place did the sunshine once, but then never again? These and host of other Judeo-ʿ Alīd brain-teasers are adduced by the seventeenth-century Shiʿite encyclopedist Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī in order to shore up the most pristine and essential of Shiʿite claims: that ʿ Alī should have been the successor to the Prophet Muḥammad. The material examined in th…
Fatwās for an Unprecedented Minority: Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr and the fiqh of Medical Transplantation for Muslims Living in Israel
This article deals with legal opinions ( fatwā s) for Muslims living in Israel as a minority under non-Muslim rule. A well-developed legal doctrine known as fiqh al-aqalliyyāt al-muslima (jurisprudence concerning Muslim minorities) applies to Muslim minorities living in the West. The innovators of fiqh al-aqalliyyāt , Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī and Ṭaha Jābir al-ʿAlwānī, did not issue legal opinions for the Muslim minority living in Israel, which, because…
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): An analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)
Hamas invests vast resources in propaganda for a number of diverse audiences, harnessing the communications channels it operates on different media platforms. Over the course of the many years of the Israel-Hamas confrontation, the organization has waged psychological warfare and an ongoing propaganda war against Israeli society, seeking to influence Israelis’ perceptions and feelings. However, there is reason to doubt the effectiveness of this a…
You Are All Soldiers in the Battle against the Corona Virus and Your Commander Is the Prophet Muḥammad: The Fatwās of Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr Regarding Covid-19
This article deals with the rulings of Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr, who served as a mediator between the Israeli government and the Muslim community over the course of the pandemic. As a senior leader and scholar of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr's fatwās have historically addressed the unique circumstances and situational difficulties faced by Muslims living in Israel
Because of Your Beard I Can Talk to You: Rabbi Froman as Crisis Mediator between Israelis and Palestinians
The subject of this essay is the role Rabbi Menachem Froman played as a mediator in crises between Israelis and Palestinians against the background of his interreligious vision of peace and attempts to implement it. Rabbi Froman was very active in this matter and initiated various schemes to promote reconciliation between the Israelis and Palestinians, both in his discussions with religious leaders of the two peoples as well as with politicians i…
Close but no Cigar: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023
This essay represents the continuation of my research, on the Hamas Organization's novel methods of psychological warfare against Israel. The previous article, which covered the period between 2007 and 2014, demonstrated the relative clumsiness of Hamas's attempts to influence Israeli public opinion. In the current study, which covers the period from 2014-October 2023, we examine Hamas's attempts to improve its methodology, inter alia through the…
Attitudes of Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders Towards the Declaration of Principles as a Test Case for Judaism and Islam between Peace and Conflict
The Declaration of Principles (Oslo I Accord, September 1993) was the inaugural groundbreaking agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian Identity conflict, which revolves around consecrated territory as well as identity components on both sides. This historic accord elicited myriad responses, yet the stances of religious figures are particularly consequential given the profound and intricate religious underpinnings of the conflict. This paper presents…
Arab-Israeli Mix: Low-scale Protests and the Increase in Terrorism Following the Outbreak of the Swords of Iron War
This article seeks to examine the behavior patterns of the Arab society in Israel since the Israel-Hamas War began in October 2023. The uniqueness of this population is the ethnic-national and religious differences between it and the Jewish majority and their identification with the Palestinians. Theoretically, the behavior patterns will be analyzed using a model of three variables: religion, citizenship, and nationality. This qualitative study, …
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Theology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · Islam (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)