[PDF][PDF] Young adults and Jewish engagement: The impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel

L Saxe, S Fishman, M Shain, GW Wright, S Hecht - 2013 - scholarworks.brandeis.edu
The engagement of Jewish young adults with their heritage and communal institutions has
been an ongoing concern of the Jewish community. In North America, a host of initiatives …

Fixity and flux: A critique of competing approaches to researching contemporary Jewish identities

MGM Samson, RM Vanderbeck, N Wood - Social Compass, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Jewish identities are becoming increasingly pluralised due to internal dynamics within
Judaism and wider social processes such as secularisation, globalisation and …

Protecting religious liberties? Security concerns at places of worship in Chicago

MGM Samson - Geoforum, 2020 - Elsevier
Following a number of high-profile attacks, security has become a key concern for diverse
places of worship in the United States and abroad. However, the impacts of these threats on …

Krav maga and chicken soup: symbolic Jewish identities within and beyond the Jewish school

MGM Samson - British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Faith schools may play an important role in reproducing ethnoreligious identities, yet
research into Jewish schools has tended to overlook students' personalised …

Creating a space for the sacred in a secular world: Shabbat dinners as a vehicle for collective effervescence, social connection, and meaning

S Gabriel, N Koefler… - Studies in Religion …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars have long argued that religious rituals are essential for maintaining society,
bringing meaning to life and increasing connections via the collective effervescence that …

White noise and unnecessary evil: Balancing security and community in synagogues

MGM Samson - Contemporary Jewry, 2021 - Springer
Violent hate crimes at places of worship such as synagogues in recent years have
engendered a distinctive dilemma for religious institutions: How can one ensure people's …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a social history of Jewish educational tourism research

HE COHEN - Jewish Educational Tourism: Multiple Origins, Paths …, 2016 - ruppin.ac.il
This article presents a socio-historic analysis of research on Jewish educational travel.
Jewish educational travel has been pioneering in the field of educational-heritage travel in …

BRIT WITHOUT MILAH: Adapting and Remixing the Dominant Ritual System.

L Jackson - Studies in Jewish Civilization, 2020 - search.ebscohost.com
The article discusses that the discreetly embedded in a conversation on Twitter, Democratic
presidential candidate Andrew Yang declared his opposition against routine infant …

Brit Without Milah: Jewish Responses to Ritual Circumcision in Canada and the United States

L Jackson - 2022 - spectrum.library.concordia.ca
This dissertation is an ethnographic study that examines contemporary Jewish engagement
with ritual circumcision (brit milah), with a particular focus on Jewish parents who are …

Constructing Jewish lives: Emerging adults and the Jewish cultural toolkit

R Minkin - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Millennials, now in their 20s and 30s, are moving through emerging adulthood, the life stage
centered on developing one's self, career, and adult responsibilities. Millennials in particular …