{"id":298,"date":"2011-09-20T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-04-23T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:09:04","slug":"the-impact-of-israel-experience-programs-on-israels-symbolic-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/2011\/09\/20\/the-impact-of-israel-experience-programs-on-israels-symbolic-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Israel Experience Programs on Israel\u2019s Symbolic Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2011\/09\/cj_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-605\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2011\/09\/cj_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>2003-4. <em>Contemporary Jewry<\/em> 24: 124-154.<\/h3>\n<p>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 summarizing symbol, integrating a multitude of normative and non-normative meanings, and allowing for variability and idiosyncrasy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.policyarchive.org\/handle\/10207\/bitstreams\/9964.pdf\">Read the article on the Berman Jewish Policy Archive website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[13,30,22,14],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-research","category-research","tag-articles","tag-birthright-israel","tag-israel","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}