01538nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100003100060245003900091260001400130300003500144520100500179650003801184773001501222906001401237942000701251952011001258  c516318d516318210223b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aJacobs, Jonathan A.925093  aJudaism, pluralism & public reason  aDaedalus   a149(3), Summer 2020: p.170-184  aCentral values of Judaism and the historical experience of Jews are sources of strong Jewish support for democracy, especially in the United States, where Jews did not have to wait for citizenship and rights to be conferred on them–and possibly withdrawn. Judaism is strongly committed to the political order in the United States and to the pluralistic, dynamic civil society it helps make possible. Jews have the freedoms that others have, and those freedoms resonate with fundamental Jewish values in ways that matter even to nonpracticing Jews. Moreover, there are reasons to regard the Constitution’s non establishment neutrality as comparing very favorably with a notion of public reason as a political approach to the question of state and church relations. Neutrality does not impose upon or require bracketing of individuals’ constitutive commitments and their conceptions of what matters most integrally to them. Public reason is vulnerable to that troubling possibility. - Reproduced   aJudaism, Jewish, Democracy925094  aDaedalus    aDEMOCRACY  cAR  00102ddc40709390410aIIPAbIIPAd2021-02-23h149(3), Summer 2020: p.170-184pAR124394r2021-02-23yAR