{"title":"Review of Clavana and Dee books","authors":"G. Alderman","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.72","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131533723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In mid-October 2012 a general election for the 19 th Knesset was called for January 22 2013 and was expected to result in radical change to the political landscape. Kadima , the party founded in late 2005 by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and which had won the largest number of seats in the election of February 2009, had virtually disintegrated. Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister and another ex-Prime Minister, had announced his departure from politics.
{"title":"The Elections to the 19th Knesset, 2013: Some Thoughts","authors":"S. Waterman","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.86","url":null,"abstract":"In mid-October 2012 a general election for the 19 th Knesset was called for January 22 2013 and was expected to result in radical change to the political landscape. Kadima , the party founded in late 2005 by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and which had won the largest number of seats in the election of February 2009, had virtually disintegrated. Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister and another ex-Prime Minister, had announced his departure from politics.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124694870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Dynamics of becoming Orthodox","authors":"Rachel Reedijk","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.79","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115043711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Britain’s Jewish community has experienced a unique religious history. This can only be explained by several factors, but one of those is Britain’s unusual geographical circumstances. It is a long, narrow island just a few miles off the coast of North Western Europe. It has long enjoyed intimate connections to the European mainland without ever being quite part of it. In the case of Anglo-Jewry this has led to a double disadvantage. It was neither part of the vigorous intellectual mainstream nor was it so detached that it was forced to rely on its own resources. Instead it was left semi-dependent, which inhibited exciting local religious developments. This seems to have been the case in both the medieval period, between Jewish settlement in the 1060s and expulsion in 1290, and again since the return of an open Jewish community in the seventeenth century. The location of London in the South East of Britain fostered a particular relationship between the capital and the provinces. Regional communities could establish their own religious identities, leading to friction as central authorities attempted to assert control. The leaders of London Jewry were also involved with overseas communities. Britain was a maritime power and developed a maritime empire. Communities in the British style, with all its idiosyncrasies, were planted around the world. This article analyses these impacts of geography on British Jewish religious life, and places them in a theoretical context using scholarship on the role of its island status in moulding British history.
{"title":"In the Islands of the Sea: Geography in the Religious History of the Jews of Britain","authors":"B. Elton","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.75","url":null,"abstract":"Britain’s Jewish community has experienced a unique religious history. This can only be explained by several factors, but one of those is Britain’s unusual geographical circumstances. It is a long, narrow island just a few miles off the coast of North Western Europe. It has long enjoyed intimate connections to the European mainland without ever being quite part of it. In the case of Anglo-Jewry this has led to a double disadvantage. It was neither part of the vigorous intellectual mainstream nor was it so detached that it was forced to rely on its own resources. Instead it was left semi-dependent, which inhibited exciting local religious developments. This seems to have been the case in both the medieval period, between Jewish settlement in the 1060s and expulsion in 1290, and again since the return of an open Jewish community in the seventeenth century. The location of London in the South East of Britain fostered a particular relationship between the capital and the provinces. Regional communities could establish their own religious identities, leading to friction as central authorities attempted to assert control. The leaders of London Jewry were also involved with overseas communities. Britain was a maritime power and developed a maritime empire. Communities in the British style, with all its idiosyncrasies, were planted around the world. This article analyses these impacts of geography on British Jewish religious life, and places them in a theoretical context using scholarship on the role of its island status in moulding British history.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117147223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jewish peoplehood is a multi-dimensional complex construct that cannot be reduced to religious identification alone but is comprised of four distinct dimensions: collective belonging or identification with the Jewish people; Jewish cultural capital or familiarity with the cultural knowledge, language, customs, and rituals that makes a Jew feel comfortable anywhere in the Jewish world; Jewish responsibility or commitment to the welfare of other Jews; and interpersonal attachment or personal connection with other Jews. This paper evaluates the independent impact of Jewish schooling, informal Jewish education, and Israel visits within the non-denominational traditional and secular streams of Australian Jewry via a multivariate secondary analysis of the 18–44-year-old group of respondents in the Australian Gen08 national survey of Australian Jewry (N=2330). It argues that educational intervention is significant, irrespective of what kind of home in which the child is raised. Adopting the paradigm of Jewish peoplehood, we find that while day schools enhance Jewish ritual practice and other cognitive measures—such as learning Hebrew (Jewish cultural capital), youth movement participation and visits to Israel are the principal drivers of Jewish community activism (interpersonal attachment) and thus Jewish commitment and belonging (Jewish responsibility). Young Australian Jews appear to choose how they reinvent different forms of Jewish belonging as old forms wax and wane. Their multiple identities lead to variant emphases on the synagogue, community involvement, and attachment to Israel—as well as increased commitment to the local community and citizenship. Jewish education thus plays an important role in sustaining collective belonging to the Jewish people.
{"title":"EDUCATION FOR JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD IN AUSTRALIA","authors":"David Mittelberg","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.68","url":null,"abstract":"Jewish peoplehood is a multi-dimensional complex construct that cannot be reduced to religious identification alone but is comprised of four distinct dimensions: collective belonging or identification with the Jewish people; Jewish cultural capital or familiarity with the cultural knowledge, language, customs, and rituals that makes a Jew feel comfortable anywhere in the Jewish world; Jewish responsibility or commitment to the welfare of other Jews; and interpersonal attachment or personal connection with other Jews. This paper evaluates the independent impact of Jewish schooling, informal Jewish education, and Israel visits within the non-denominational traditional and secular streams of Australian Jewry via a multivariate secondary analysis of the 18–44-year-old group of respondents in the Australian Gen08 national survey of Australian Jewry (N=2330). It argues that educational intervention is significant, irrespective of what kind of home in which the child is raised. Adopting the paradigm of Jewish peoplehood, we find that while day schools enhance Jewish ritual practice and other cognitive measures—such as learning Hebrew (Jewish cultural capital), youth movement participation and visits to Israel are the principal drivers of Jewish community activism (interpersonal attachment) and thus Jewish commitment and belonging (Jewish responsibility). Young Australian Jews appear to choose how they reinvent different forms of Jewish belonging as old forms wax and wane. Their multiple identities lead to variant emphases on the synagogue, community involvement, and attachment to Israel—as well as increased commitment to the local community and citizenship. Jewish education thus plays an important role in sustaining collective belonging to the Jewish people.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132319891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Jews God and the Media","authors":"Abigail Wood","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.73","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115204137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study compared internalized homophobia and perceived daily stress among 135 participants in homo-lesbian support groups in Israel, by extent of religiosity (secular vs. ultra-Orthodox) and gender. Another goal of the study was to examine whether the contribution of personal resources (self-esteem and self-differentiation) and environmental resources (emotional support) to explaining perceived daily stress differed for secular versus ultra-Orthodox participants, and for men versus women. As expected, religiosity contributed most significantly to explaining perceived daily stress. Several differences were found between men and women with regard to the outcome variable and the explanatory variables, irrespective of religiosity. Notably, perceived daily stress and levels of internalized homophobia were lower for women than for men, although levels of emotional support were higher for women.
{"title":"Internalized Homophobia and Distress among Participants in Support Groups for Homosexuals: Secular versus Ultra-Orthodox Participants","authors":"L. Kulik","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.58","url":null,"abstract":"The study compared internalized homophobia and perceived daily stress among 135 participants in homo-lesbian support groups in Israel, by extent of religiosity (secular vs. ultra-Orthodox) and gender. Another goal of the study was to examine whether the contribution of personal resources (self-esteem and self-differentiation) and environmental resources (emotional support) to explaining perceived daily stress differed for secular versus ultra-Orthodox participants, and for men versus women. As expected, religiosity contributed most significantly to explaining perceived daily stress. Several differences were found between men and women with regard to the outcome variable and the explanatory variables, irrespective of religiosity. Notably, perceived daily stress and levels of internalized homophobia were lower for women than for men, although levels of emotional support were higher for women.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125466980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Benderly Boys","authors":"Helena Miller","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.67","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115219116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper examines two waves of independent, non-denominational minyan -development activity in the Jewish community in the United States, separated by 30 years (1980’s and 2010’s). With striking parallels, the two movements make up one congregational model. Examining their common patterns, the analysis identifies three frames in which to understand their founding and the source of their stability and longevity when it is attained. Three frames explain these patterns: the demographic frame which relies on notable internal homogeneity; the religious frame, which refers to ongoing tensions and patterns of change in religious organizations in general; and the skills/quality frame, which refers to a dynamic and pattern specific to the minyanim . This last frame connects to the difference between ascribed and achieved status/identity in Jewish life as an important dynamic in Jewish continuity and change, and as the “engine” of Jewish congregationalism. The conclusions refer not only to the founding of independent minyanim in this model, but also suggest key dynamics in Jewish congregational and community life in general.
{"title":"The Dance with Tradition: Two Generations of the Independent Minyan in America","authors":"Shirah W. Hecht","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.69","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines two waves of independent, non-denominational minyan -development activity in the Jewish community in the United States, separated by 30 years (1980’s and 2010’s). With striking parallels, the two movements make up one congregational model. Examining their common patterns, the analysis identifies three frames in which to understand their founding and the source of their stability and longevity when it is attained. Three frames explain these patterns: the demographic frame which relies on notable internal homogeneity; the religious frame, which refers to ongoing tensions and patterns of change in religious organizations in general; and the skills/quality frame, which refers to a dynamic and pattern specific to the minyanim . This last frame connects to the difference between ascribed and achieved status/identity in Jewish life as an important dynamic in Jewish continuity and change, and as the “engine” of Jewish congregationalism. The conclusions refer not only to the founding of independent minyanim in this model, but also suggest key dynamics in Jewish congregational and community life in general.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123724901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE YEAR IN SOCIAL RESEARCH ON JEWS & JEWISH LIFE: 2012","authors":"Keith Kahn-Harris","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.78","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121113527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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