Balaniyot, Baths and Beyond

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" Balaniyot, Baths and Beyond "
Nahshon Perez, Elisheva Rosman-Stollman

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072511
Doc. No	:	LA116140
Call No	:	‭10.1163/22124810-00702003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Elisheva Rosman-Stollman
	:	Nahshon Perez
Title & Author	:	Balaniyot, Baths and Beyond [Article]\ Nahshon Perez, Elisheva Rosman-Stollman
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill \| Nijhoff
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Law, Religion and State
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	7/2
Page No	:	184–212
Abstract	:	Ritual immersion in Israel has become a major point of contention between Israeli-Jewish women and the state-funded Chief Rabbinate of Israel. In order to conduct a religious household, Orthodox Jewish women are required to immerse in a ritual bath (mikveh) approximately once a month. However, in Israel, these are strictly regulated and managed by the Chief Rabbinate, which habitually interferes with women’s autonomy when immersing. The article presents the case, then moves to discuss two models of religion-state relations: privatization and evenhandedness (roughly the modern version of nonpreferentialism), as two democratic models that can be adopted by the state in order to properly manage religious services, ritual baths included. The discussion also delineates the general lessons that can be learned from this contextual exploration, pointing to the advantages of the privatization model, and to the complexities involved in any evenhanded approach beyond the specific case at hand.
Descriptor	:	Comparative Law
Descriptor	:	evenhandedness
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Descriptor	:	International Law
Descriptor	:	Islamic Law
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	privatization
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	religion-state relations
Descriptor	:	religious discrimination
Descriptor	:	religious feminism
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	ritual baths
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/22124810-00702003‬