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Jewish Subcultures Online: Outreach, Dating, and Marginalized Communities ______
JEWISH SUBCULTURES ONLINE: OUTREACH, DATING, AND MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES ____________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of California State University, Fullerton ____________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in American Studies ____________________________________ By Rachel Sara Schiff Thesis Committee Approval: Professor Leila Zenderland, Chair Professor Terri Snyder, Department of American Studies Professor Carrie Lane, Department of American Studies Spring, 2016 ABSTRACT This thesis explores how Jewish individuals use and create communities online to enrich their Jewish identity. The Internet provides Jews who do not fit within their brick and mortar communities an outlet that gives them voice, power, and sometimes anonymity. They use these websites to balance their Jewish identities and other personal identities that may or may not fit within their local Jewish community. This research was conducted through analyzing a broad range of websites. The first chapter, the introduction, describes the Jewish American population as a whole as well as the history of the Internet. The second chapter, entitled “The Black Hats of the Internet,” discusses how the Orthodox community has used the Internet to create a modern approach to outreach. It focuses in particular on the extensive web materials created by Chabad and Aish Hatorah, which offer surprisingly modern twists on traditional texts. The third chapter is about Jewish online dating. It uses JDate and other secular websites to analyze how Jewish singles are using the Internet. This chapter also suggests that the use of the Internet may have an impact on reducing interfaith marriage. The fourth chapter examines marginalized communities, focusing on the following: Jewrotica; the Jewish LGBT community including those who are “OLGBT” (Orthodox LGBT); Punk Jews; and feminist Jews. -
Doctoral Proposal
Conflict and Creativity in Jewish Modern Orthodox Girls’ Education: Navigating Tradition and Modernity by Rafael Mark Cashman A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto © Copyright by Rafael Mark Cashman (2015) Conflict and Creativity in Jewish Modern Orthodox Girls’ Education: Navigating Tradition and Modernity Rafael Mark Cashman Doctor of Philosophy Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning University of Toronto 2015 Abstract This study investigates Jewish Modern Orthodox girls’ dissonant, creative and adaptive responses to their religious and gender identities as they negotiate the tensions between authority and autonomy in an all-girls’ high school. It considers how the school, as a socializing agent, plays a role in this development. This study is framed by a post-structural research agenda that explores the complexity of religious practices in modernity, and a feminist post- structural body of research around alternative girlhoods in modernity. This ethnographic study contends with the notion that the presence of autonomy and other modern values such as egalitarianism, are a necessary challenge to the girls’ capacity to accept religious and patriarchal authority in a self-affirming way. Instead, it found that girls accept or creatively adapt to, and rarely dissent from, aspects of religion’s authority, while still maintaining their expectation of autonomy and egalitarianism. They achieved this state through a complex and creative re-structuring of normative religious categories in their religious lives, rather than through a bifurcation of the competing discourses, as had been posited in previous research. -
Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: a Retrospective View
Copyrighted material. Do not duplicate. Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: A Retrospective View IRVING (YITZ) GREENBERG he Oxford conference of 2014 set off a wave of self-reflection, with particu- Tlar reference to my relationship to and role in Modern Orthodoxy. While the text below includes much of my presentation then, it covers a broader set of issues and offers my analyses of the different roads that the leadership of the community and I took—and why.1 The essential insight of the conference was that since the 1960s, Modern Orthodoxy has not taken the road that I advocated. However, neither did it con- tinue on the road it was on. I was the product of an earlier iteration of Modern Orthodoxy, and the policies I advocated in the 1960s could have been projected as the next natural steps for the movement. In the course of taking a different 1 In 2014, I expressed appreciation for the conference’s engagement with my think- ing, noting that there had been little thoughtful critique of my work over the previous four decades. This was to my detriment, because all thinkers need intelligent criticism to correct errors or check excesses. In the absence of such criticism, one does not learn an essential element of all good thinking (i.e., knowledge of the limits of these views). A notable example of a rare but very helpful critique was Steven Katz’s essay “Vol- untary Covenant: Irving Greenberg on Faith after the Holocaust,” inHistoricism, the Holocaust, and Zionism: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought and History, ed. -
Shavuot 5771 by Blu Greenberg
Shavuot 5771 By Blu Greenberg At one level, the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals—Pesach, Sukkot and Shavuot—celebrate our most intimate communal moments. Beginning with their agricultural origins, the festivals summon up images of tribal relatives working the land together and Israelites traveling to the Jerusalem Temple in family units, arriving en masse at appointed times so as to connect to one another as members of the same covenantal community. On the festivals, echoes of one people sharing a common experience of planting, harvesting and giving thanks to God reverberate in our memories. The second set of ties that bind us together are the historical narratives of the festivals. Each has its own strong story. Pesach recounts the miracle of liberation of our slave ancestors, a story we not only tell at the seder , but also carry with us every day in our prayers and every week in our Shabbat rituals. Sukkot represents our people’s journey towards freedom in the Promised Land—a vulnerable minority huddling together in booths and placing our faith in God. Shavuot, too, is understood by the Rabbis of the Talmud to commemorate Revelation at Sinai, that singular event that shaped the lives of our people forever. All of these themes represent Jewish particularity through its peak experiences. Yet, at another level, the holidays also represent the ways in which Judaism looks outward to the rest of the world. The Talmud records the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer that the 70 sacrifices brought on Sukkot were brought on behalf of the 70 nations of the world (Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 55b). -
Judaism Paper
Matsuura !1 Reina Matsuura Professor Reisenberger REL2047F: Religion Sexuality & Gender 19 March 2018 Visibility of Women in Jewish Traditions When our identities are rooted in ourselves as historical beings, that is, contextualized by time and space, it is no wonder women find themselves conflicted at one point or another, when the myriad of our existence and individualities have been limited in representations throughout history. While this holds true for many traditions and current realities around the world, this paper will focus on both progressive and Orthodox Judaism, and the ways in which Jewish women have been successful in finding spaces for themselves while contesting others, calling for a revision in Hallachic traditions. Given the “problem of difference” in feminist discourse, where women (particularly women of color and of non-normative sexualities and abilities) have been marginalized in their own movement because of the emphasis that has been put solely on what unites them (i.e. oppression) (Spelman 4), we must also take into account differences among women in the Jewish community. This paper is committed to delineating some of the recently contested aspects of Judaism with regard to women’s self-worth and religious pride, ultimately in an effort to explore the choices Jewish women have in gaining oppressive knowledge. In this sense, it reflects stand-point theory’s belief that our positions as women (with intersectional identities) enables a unique perspective that is inherently out-of-reach to men who benefit fully from current Jewish structures. Jewish knowledge is linear, and it is a citational history. The problem many (but not all) women face in this citational history is two-fold: what has been cited regarding her responsibilities and devotion take up perhaps a quarter of documented Jewish history, if that. -
Religion Program 3840: Judaism and the Body
CARLETON UNIVERSITY College of the Humanities: Religion Program 3840: Judaism and the Body: Food, Sex and Death Course Delivery: Online on Brightspace and fully asynchronous (Not CULearn see below) Winter 2021: January 11-April 14 Professor: Dr. Deidre Butler Email: [email protected] Online Office Hours: Online office hours Wednesdays 4:30 -5:30 pm details TBA on what system we will use on Brightspace. Also by appointment for online and telephone appointments at other times. Course Description: This 3000 level course explores Jewish life, law, and practice through the bodily experiences of food, sex and death in historical and contemporary perspectives. From kosher bacon to sex work to zombies in Jewish law this course will reflect on the body as a material site of the religious to target key questions around what it means to be human, holiness and the sacred, gender and sexuality, identity, otherness, and community, tradition and authority, and health and wellness. In religious studies we understand religion as a human phenomenon that we study from critical, historical, and evidence-based perspectives. Jewish bodily practices include ritual observance, commanded and prohibited behaviours, and cultural practices. These practices reflect the diversity of Judaism itself, lived by humans in specific times and places and experienced in particular cultural, social and political contexts. As such we will consider a range of Jewish bodily practices and experiences that are both historical and contemporary. Key questions include: How does -
Women's Issues
WOMEN'S ISSUES BOOK ONE The Female and Her Characteristics Prepared by Ner Le’Elef 1 WOMEN'S ISSUES BOOK ONE: Prepared by Ner Le’Elef Publication date 09 October 2007 Permission is granted to reproduce in part or in whole. Profits may not be gained from any such reproductions. This book is updated with each edition and is produced several times a year. Other Ner Le’Elef Booklets currently available: AMERICAN SOCIETY BOOK OF QUOTATIONS EVOLUTION HOLOCAUST JEWISH RESOURCES LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ORAL LAW PROOFS QUESTION & ANSWERS SCIENCE AND JUDAISM SOURCES SUFFERING THE CHOSEN PEOPLE THIS WORLD & THE NEXT WOMEN'S ISSUES (Book Two) For information on how to order additional booklets, please contact: Ner Le’Elef P.O. Box 14503 Jewish Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem 91145 E-mail: [email protected] Fax #: 972-02-653-6229 Tel #: 972-02-651-0825 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION ONE 6 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN 6 ESSENCE OF FEMALE 6 GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S ISSUES 7 CHAPTER A: OVERVIEW OF CHARACTERISTICS 8 13 נוקבא :CHAPTER B i-The Female Concept 14 Himself manifests a Male and Female Side 14 השם-a 17 ה and the female - revealed ,י b-The male - hidden 21 כלי וחומר-c 23 רצון and תשוקה -d male 24 – חכמה ;female –נבואה -e wife to husband 24 - השם in relation to כנסת ישראל -f ii-Male and Female – a Historical Perspective 24 CHAPTER C: FEMALE CHARACTERISTICS 29 30 צניעות ובינה יתרה-i 31 מצוות עשה שהזמן גרמא-ii 32 אמונה-iii iv-Serenity 33 v-Other Characteristics 35 35 רחמניות -a Women are more tight-fisted with guests; 36 – צרות עין -
Israel, Middle East
Review of the Year OTHER COUNTRIES Israel and the Middle East Israel X HE VIOLENCE THAT BEGAN in late 2000 and continued all through 2001—featuring Palestinian suicide bombings aimed at pro- ducing a maximum of Israeli casualties, and Israeli reprisals—did not abate in 2002; in fact, it intensified. Tough new measures by the Likud- led coalition, including stepped-up "targeted killings'1 of terror kingpins and large-scale incursions into Palestinian areas—such as Operation De- fensive Shield in the spring—brought only temporary halts to the attacks on Israelis and sharp criticism from around the world. An exception to the unsympathetic attitude toward Israel in world cap- itals was that of the American government. Although President George W. Bush became the first president explicitly to call for a Palestinian state, he delivered a speech on June 24 announcing that the Palestinian National Authority would have to undergo democratization, renounce terror, and select new leadership (that is, not Yasir Arafat) first. Toward the end of the year, with a U.S. strike on Iraq looming, the U.S., the UN, the European Union (EU), and the chief European powers promoted a "road map," charting steps that Israel and the Palestinians might take to reach an ultimate settlement. The security crisis loomed large over Israeli life. The economy, already hard-hit by more than a year of violence, suffered further blows. And while the Labor Party left the coalition and brought down the government on October 30 ostensibly over a budgetary matter, what was really at stake was whether Labor could devise a strategy for stopping the bloodshed that would be both different from Likud's and convincing to the voters. -
2015 Annual Report
Research. Debate. Impact. 2015 ANNUAL REPORT Table of Contents Message from the Chairman of the Board Elections 2015 34 and the President 4 The Guttman Center for Surveys Investing in a Stronger Democracy 6 and Public Policy Research 36 The Center for Religion, Nation and State 8 2015 by the Numbers 41 The Center for Governance and the Economy 16 Leadership 42 Our Partners 44 The Center for Security and Democracy 22 Our Team 45 The Center for Democratic Values and Institutions 26 Financials 46 Message from the Chairman of the Board and the President Dear Friends, 2015 was a transformational year at IDI. Over the course of the The Center for Governance and the economy will devise and last 18 months, we completed an internal restructuring geared to promote much-needed reforms in Israel's political system, public turn IDI into a more efficient and effective change agent. We cut service, and labor market. budgets where necessary, reallocated scarce resources to area of The Center for National Security and Democracy will develop high priority, opened new programs and shut down others. ways to deal effectively with security threats while maintaining At the heart of this process was the creation of four new research an open society that upholds democratic values and the rule of and policy centers, each managed by a full-time director charged law. The Center for Religion, Nation and State will work to ease with designing and implementing a 5-year plan for change in an the tensions between religion and state in Israel, integrate ultra- area critical for Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state. -
ICJW Newsletter.Indd
April 2009 Nissan 5769 Newsletter ICJW: Shaked 363, Zur Hadassah, Israel 99875 Website: www.icjw.org E-mail: [email protected] Tel/Fax: 972-2-533 6955 Editorial Committee: Aviva Kohlmann, Judy Telman Dear Friends, This Newsletter is primarily devoted to the ideas that we will be exploring at ICJW’s Herczeg Jerusalem Seminar for Jewish Education in May, which is entitled “Time and Place: Profound Philosophical Concepts in Jewish Thought”. These concepts are basic to understanding the Jewish perspective on many aspects of Jewish philosophy and practice, and this Seminar will provide the participants with a time and place to immerse themselves in learning more about them. These keys will also help stretch our minds and expand our knowledge—fulfilling the goals and purposes of the Seminar since its inception. While learning is a matter for personal growth, the opportunity we have at the Seminar to participate in a collective study experience is what makes it one of the major events in the ICJW calendar. We have every reason to expect that this Seminar will be among the best. I would like to thank all who have played a part in organizing the Herczeg Jerusalem Seminar and, above all, Rena Cohen, who suggested the topic and has invested much effort to translate it into an actual program. As we approach the holiday of Pesach and the sense of renewal it brings, may what we learn at the Seminar be a catalyst for personal enrichment and a collective blossoming—in all respects. Looking forward to meeting you in Jerusalem, Leah Aharonov President, ICJW Concepts of Time and Place in Jewish Thought Where are you now? What time is it? When and where shall we meet? How much time do we have? These are some of the very basic questions that we ask and are asked daily, because dealing with time and place is an integral part of our lives. -
Israeli Decision Making.Pdf
The Process of Israeli Decision Making: Mechanisms, Forces and Influences By Karim El-Gendy First published in 2010 by: Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations P.O. Box: 14-5034, Beirut, Lebanon Tel: +961 1 803644 Tel-fax: +961 1 803643 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.alzaytouna.net © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. For further information regarding permission(s), please write to: [email protected] The views expressed in this book are those of the author alone. They do not necessarily reflect views of al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations THE PROCESS OF ISRAELI DECISION MAKING M E C H A N I S M S, F O R C E S, A N D I N F L U E N C E S By Karim El-Gendy Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies & Consultations, Beirut, Lebanon The Process of Israeli Decision Making __________________________________________________ 3 Table of Contents Table of Contents ………………………………………………………… 3 I. Introduction ……………………………………………………… 6 II. The "Constitutional" Mechanism ……………………………… 13 1. The Knesset: …………………………………………………… 14 1.1. The Knesset’s composition ……………………………………. 14 1.2. The Knesset’s powers and functions …………………………... 16 2. The Cabinet: ………………………………………………….. 17 2.1. The Cabinet’s composition …………………………………... 17 2.2. The Cabinet’s powers and functions ………………………….. 18 3. The relationship between the Cabinet and the Knesset ………... 20 4. The Foreign Ministry Staff …………………………………….. 22 III. Forces and Processes within the Political System …………… 25 1. Coalition politics: …………………………………………… 26 1.1. -
Einat Lachover -Curriculum Vitae
Name: Einat Lachover Date: Feb 2021 EINAT LACHOVER - CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Personal Details Permanent Home Address: 28 Moshe Sharet St. Tel Aviv, 6209238 Home Telephone Number: +972-3-6092172 Office Telephone Number: +972-77-9802733 Cellular Phone: +972-54-7240608 Email: [email protected] 2. Higher Education A. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies YEAR OF PERIOD OF NAME OF INSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENT DEGREE APPROVAL STUDY OF DEGREE 1989-1992 Department of Middle Eastern Studies and BA 1992 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Cum Laude 1992-1995 Department of Communication and Journalism, MA 1995 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Cum Laude 1996-2002 Department of Communication, PhD 2002 Tel Aviv University, Israel 3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education DATES NAME OF INSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENT RANK/POSITION 2005-2006 Department of Communication, Adjunct Lecturer Sapir Academic College 2006-2010 Department of Communication, Lecturer Sapir Academic College 2011-Present Department of Communication, Senior Lecturer Sapir Academic College 2020- Department of Communication, Associate Professor Present Sapir Academic College 1 Name: Einat Lachover Date: Feb 2021 4. Offices in Academic Administration 4a. Offices in Academic Administration (Sapir Academic College) DATES NAME OF INSTITUTION / DEPARTMENT POSITION 2007-2009 Department of Communication, Member, Sapir Academic College Students and Lecturers Committee 2007-2012 Department of Communication, Member, Sapir