צדק-מדות-מוסר

Justice-Ethics-Morals

ברייט - מוסד שיקומי פילולוגי מיסודה של צדק-מדות-מוסר בע"מ

BRIGHT - PHILOLOGICAL REHABILITATION INSTITUTE FOUNDED BY JUSTICE-ETHICS-MORALS LTD

History

The Justice Ethics Morals (JEM) association was founded on 1969 with the goal to promote the aspiration that the eternal morality, morals, honesty, justice and ethics stored in Torah, the Talmud and other Jewish old sources, will become a natural and inseparable part of everyday life.

Goals

Founding Fathers

Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen

He was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel and the President of its rabbinical courts (1975–2011).

Rabbi Prof. (Menachem) Emanuel Rackman

He was an American Modern Orthodox Rabbi, president of the RCA, vice-president of Yeshiva University.[1] President of Bar-Ilan University from 1977 to 1986.[2] He held pulpits in major congregations and helped draw attention to the plight of Refuseniks in the then-Soviet Union and attempted to resolve the dilemma of the Agunah, a woman who cannot remarry because her husband will not grant a Get, the required religious divorce decree that would free her to remarry under Halacha

Supreme Court Judge Prof. Yitzhak Kister, Yitzhak

Born in Galicia in 1905, Yitzhak Kister was educated at the University of Lwow and graduated in 1929 with an LL.M. Kister worked as an attorney in Poland from 1925 to 1935, immigrating to Israel in 1935. Kister was appointed to the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court in 1945, and later that year, he was appointed to the District Court. Kister was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1965 and served there until his retirement in 1975. Kister identified as an ultra-orthodox Jew and is considered the only member of that denomination to have served as a justice in the Israeli Supreme Court. Kister died in 1999 at the age of 94.

Prof. Ankar Aharon

The first Dean of the Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law.

Prof. Gavriel Cohen

He was an Israeli academic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1965 and 1969. He lectured on medieval and modern history at Tel Aviv University, where he became a professor in 1976. Between 1983 and 1986 he served as dean of the Humanities Faculty at the university, before becoming a member of the Council for Higher Education