Yael Shahar

Yael Shahar spent most of her career in intelligence and security studies, with side trips into physics, graphic design, and digital layout.

She has lectured worldwide on a variety of topics, from Jewish education to security studies and threat assessment. Her research on the Internet as an enabler of political and social change led her to a deeper study of Jewish society over the ages.

Her writing on Jewish education and philosophy can be found at www.yaelshahar.com.

  • Innovative Halakhic solutions already exist: Do we have the courage to use them?

    In Halacha by Yael Shahar

    In the process of adapting from exile to statehood, halachah may need to be uprooted and transplanted, or even cut back to its deepest roots and regrown in a larger pot, where it can flower more freely. This will probably result in the “secularization” of some of our halachot, offset by a cultural “Judification” of our secular society. Can we use the lessons learned during the galut to survive in an increasingly decentralized and globalized world?

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