College of Arts and Sciences News
Secularization of Modern Israel
Posted Feb. 8, 2013
The Jewish Studies Program, Department of Political Science, and Department of History present "Secularization of Modern Israel," a lunch and learn with Guy Ben-Porat, PhD. Weds, Feb 13 2013
12:00-1:00pm
KSU Student Center Room 313
A thriving, yet small, liberal component in Israeli society has frequently taken issue with the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy, largely with limited success. However, Guy Ben-Porat suggests, in recent years, in part because of demographic changes and in part because of the influence of an increasingly consumer-oriented society, dramatic changes have occurred in secularization of significant parts of public and private lives.
Free and open to all, Dessert provided.