Dr. Sarit Ben Simhon

D.Phil in Political Science, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2002

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Dr. Sarit Ben Simhon was born in Jerusalem in 1970. She is the current Director of Research at the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy. Sarit wrote her D.Phil thesis, entitled A View from Somewhere: Justifications of Human Rights in Liberalism and Modern Jewish Thought, at St. Antony's College, Oxford, in which she put forward an innovative argument for the universality of human rights. Upon her return to Israel she joined the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University as a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral fellow and lecturer.

Sarit was previously Head of Research at "Education Watch", an Israeli NGO, and at PORI (Public Opinion Research in Israel), a market research firm. During this period she continued to be an active participant in various research groups focusing on Jewish philosophy and social justice. Sarit is on the steering committee of the ISEF (International Education Fund) Alumni Association, and is widely published in the academic field of Jewish values and human rights.

Publications:

•  כפרת יחיד וכפרת רבים: ועדת האמת והפיוס של דרום אפריקה" , מכון ון- ליר, נובמבר 2004. עתיד להתפרסם ב-2007

•  "מוסר של אחריות הדדית – הרב י.ד. סולובייצ'יק וזכויות אדם אוניברסליות", הרצאה לכנס "הרב י.ד. סולובייצ'יק – אורתודוקסיה ומודרנה" , מכון ון-ליר, דצמבר 2003 (עתיד להתפרסם ב-2007).

•  שינויים ברשת הביטחון הסוציאלי: אפשר לעשות זאת אחרת", פרסומי מרכז אדוה, נובמבר 2003"

•  Sarit Ben Simhon, “Re-interpreting Jewish Social Practices: M. Kaplan’s Justification of Human Rights”, 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 2000.

•  Sarit Ben Simhon, “Is Duty-Based Religious Morality Really Incompatible with Human Rights Justification? – The Duty-Based/Rights-Based Dichotomy Re-examined”, Brave New World Conference, University of Manchester, June 1999.

•  (זכויות אדם ודמוקרטיה", פוליטיקה, גיליון מס' 2 (דצמבר 1998"