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PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
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For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
Your donation will be tax deductible in the US to the extent allowed by the IRS.
To make a tax-deductible donation by wire transfer in the US, please contact:
Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
To make a tax-deductible donation in Israel, please contact:
Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
Attn: Mr. Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
c/o Camp Ramah in Canada
3845 Bathhurst St., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
Israel
For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
19/12/2016
A group of 20 high-profile lawyers and judges from Canada visited Israel for a 5-day Law & Justice seminar at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Meeting with Israel’s top legal names, participants immersed themselves in the topic of “Maintaining Security, Rule of Law, Democracy and the Jewish Way of Life”.
Mission delegates participated in a festive reception at the Rooftop Restaurant, Mamilla Hotel, followed by a talk by the Honorable Justice Dalia Dorner, former Israeli Supreme Court Justice. Mission delegates, several of whom are not Jewish, heard Justice Dorner’s explanation of the special character of Israel, which is both a Jewish and democratic state. She stated that “Israel must unite both of these values. Indeed, certain Jewish values are very compatible with democracy. Furthermore, the founding fathers of Israel chose freedom, justice and peace as the basic values upon which the State is founded, and no one can change this.”
The next day, the jurists met with Justice Elyakim Rubinstein, Vice President of Israel’s Supreme Court and former Attorney General. They also toured the award-winning building. Rubinstein explained the uniqueness of Israel’s Supreme Court and how it differs from those of other Western countries. He also discussed topical issues such as the appointment of Supreme Court justices and the proposed Regulation Law.
Afterwards, the delegates traveled to the Ministry of Justice in East Jerusalem and met with Israel’s State Attorney, Shai Nitzan, who spoke about the difficulties of safeguarding human rights during times of war and insecurity.
On Thursday, Amb. Efraim Halevy, the 9th Director of the Israeli Mossad who was born in England, gave a riveting talk on the interrelationship between Israel, the United States and Russia, and each country’s interest in the Middle East. Halevy declared that “Israel cannot be destroyed” and that “Iran never was and cannot be an existential threat to the State of Israel. There is no state or entity that represents an existential threat to the State of Israel.”
On Friday afternoon, the delegates visited the Neve Schechter Center for Jewish Culture in Neve Zedek, Tel Aviv, and heard several lectures. Prof. Gideon Sapir from the Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, and a candidate for the position of Supreme Court Justice gave a lecture explaining the issues of Israel’s Blue Laws. He noted the quandary of employing workers on the Sabbath in Israel and creative legal solutions to this dilemma, which counterbalances two values: one Jewish – the right to a day of rest; and the other democratic – the basic right to freedom of employment.
The mission was the initiative of Rabbi Jonathan Infeld of Beth Israel Congregation, Vancouver, British Columbia and one of his congregants, attorney Howard A. Mickelson, Q.C. A group of Jewish and non-Jewish lawyers meets regularly in Vancouver – in a Law and Learn program for lawyers that deal with contemporary issues in civil law, bringing in guest lecturers. A Jewish Law component is added to each session by Rabbi Infeld.
The mission’s goal was to enable a group of Canadian leaders to study, up close, the social, military and political issues facing Israel as a democratic and Jewish state, both from a general legal and a specific Jewish legal/religious standpoint.
Due to Rabbi Infeld’s long-term connection to the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Schechter was chosen to lead the mission and to implement the study program.
For further information, contact Shelly Paz at Shepaz@gmail.com
