Chapters in Edited Volumes
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JEWISH EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL Shaul Kelner. 2008. Pages 423-432 in What We Now Know About Jewish Education: Perspectives on Research for Practice Edited by Roberta Louis Goodman, Paul J. Flexner and Linda Dale Bloomberg. Los Angeles: Torah Aura. Drawing on anthropological research on travel and tourism, this chapter offers a theoretical groundwork for articulating a program of research in Jewish educational travel, broadly conceived. |
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WHO IS BEING TAUGHT? Jewish Early Childhood Education’s Adult-Centered Approach Shaul Kelner. 2007. WHY JEWISH PARENTS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO DAY SCHOOLS TOWARD THE STUDY OF COMMUNITY EFFECTS ON JEWISH ENGAGEMENT Chapters 3, 4 and 9 in Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice Edited by Jack Wertheimer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Pp. 59-79. Studies in the sociology of education: Three chapters analyzing the roles played by families, schools, communities, and advocacy groups . |
Toward the Study of Community Effects on Jewish Engagement: The Case of Educational Enrollment
2007. (with Steven M. Cohen). Chapter 9 in Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice. Edited by Jack Wertheimer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Pp. 257-74. Studies in the sociology of education: One of three chapters analyzing the roles played by families, schools, communities, and advocacy groups in Jewish education. To...... KEEP READING
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Review of The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age
Review of Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider’s The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age (Temple University Press, 2005) 2007. Social Forces 86(2):873-5 From the review: “’The past is not dead. It is not even past.’ Faulkner’s words might serve as the epigraph to the entire field of collective memory studies. Its key insights –...... KEEP READING
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Review of Engaged Spirituality
Review of Gregory Stanczak’s Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion (Rutgers University Press, 2006) 2008. International Review of Modern Sociology 34(1):144-6 From the review: “When a book subtitled How Religion Poisons Everything nears the top of the best-seller lists, as Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great has, it is but one more indication that...... KEEP READING
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Reconceptualizing Religious Change: Ethno-Apostasy and Change in Religion among American Jews
2006. Sociology of Religion 67(4): 507-24. With Benjamin Phillips. Drawing on data from the NJPS 2000-1, we argue that traditional approaches to the study of religious mobility – both apostasy and switching – are increasingly problematic. Apostasy from ethno-religious communities, in particular, must be refomulated to incorporate an ethnic dimension. Analyses using this revised concept...... KEEP READING
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The Impact of Israel Experience Programs on Israel’s Symbolic Meaning
2003-4. Contemporary Jewry 24: 124-154. Ethnographic study of Israel experience programs reveals processes by which Israel becomes cognitively and affectively meaningful to American Jews. A Durkheimian analysis suggests that feelings generated by an intense group experience are preserved in symbolic residue that re-evokes these feelings. For American Jewish travelers, Israel comes to serve as a...... KEEP READING
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Serious Fun
The Jerusalem Post June 28, 2010 When Birthright was launched a decade ago, skeptics dismissed the 10-day tours of Israel as little more than a free party for privileged college kids. It was an unfair critique, but it gained traction because it combined the ever popular lament about the “youth of today” with an equally...... KEEP READING
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So Near, So Far
New York Jewish Week May 12, 2010 A traveler’s quiz: When American Jewish tourists arrive at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, which two words are they more likely to be greeted with? A) “Welcome home!” B) “Passport, please.” Resist the temptation to choose “A.”... KEEP READING
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The Place of Cultural Production
Sh’ma June 2007, Issue no. 642: Place, Space, and the Shaping of American Judaism From Congregation B’nai Jeshurun to Heeb Magazine, New York is producing a new urban Jewish culture defined through shelilat haparbar, the “negation of the suburbs.” But can a culture defined in opposition to the suburbs revitalize Jewish life there? Read more…... KEEP READING
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