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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Orthodox Jews"”.
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Lelov: cultural memory and a Jewish town in Poland. Investigating the identity and history of an ultra - orthodox society.
… (David) Biederman founder of the Lelov ultra-orthodox (Chasidic) Jewish group, - is buried. His grave is now a focal point of the Chasidic pilgrimages. The pilgrims themselves are a Chasidic hodgepodge, dressed in fur-brimmed hats, dreadlocked, and they all come to Lelov for the same reasons: …
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Jewish Perspectives on Christian Privilege: a Consensual Qualitative Study
… Identity. A sample of 12 adult, American, non-Orthodox Jews were interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol. The interview data was collected to better understand the manifestations of Christian privilege and the impact of said issues on participant’s lives and identities. Seven …
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The Theoretical Symbolism of Eruvin: A Model of Dual-Identity and Sacred Space
… into the public sphere, <em>eruvin</em> allow Orthodox Jews to carry objects outside of their homes on the Sabbath, a seemingly simple act that would otherwise be prohibited. Constructed according to intricate Rabbinic specifications,<em> eruvin</em> use existing architectural elements such as …
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A Descriptive, Comparative Health Assessment Of Unique Older-Adult Populations In Israel
… Holocaust survivors, Arabs, and Haredi/ultra-Orthodox Jews. Populations were selected based on unique needs and/or significant anticipated growth. Language, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers were identified in all groups. Other commonalities among most special populations include lower …
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The experience of motherhood within the Orthodox Jewish community
… of motherhood within north-west London’s Orthodox Jewish community. Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted amongst seven mothers, each with three or more children, the youngest being over the age of one. All participants were religious …
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21st-Century Yiddishism: The Dialectic of Czernowitz and Yiddish Pedagogical Discourse of the Present
… rise of Yiddish homeschooling among London Ultra-orthodox Jews; the status, turf-sharing and pedagogical frictions surrounding the shuttling of Yiddish back-and-forth from popular culture to the contemporary American classroom; and the fraught yet surprisingly dynamic institutional bearings of …
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Becoming ‘Jewish’ believing in Jesus? Conversion, gender and ethnicity in the production of the Judaising Evangelical subject
… the theological and eschatological importance of Jews living in Israel, this thesis addresses a different dimension of this trend. Focusing particularly on women’s conversion narratives, this study investigates the reasons why Charismatic Evangelical Brazilians are actively embracing a version of …
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Socio-political challenges of marginal religious groups: the Sabbatean movement as a case study
… many followers, but also received criticism from orthodox Jews and others, especially when he converted to Islam. The thesis analyses how the movement evolved during Tzvi’s life, and after his death, and what may have urged his followers to hide their religious identities. It then compares this …
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Cultivation and Conflict: Buddhist-Derived Meditation and Ethical Complexity among Israeli Jews
… West Bank. It examines the ways in which orthodox Jews on the one hand, and non-observant Jewish activists for solidarity with Palestinians on the other hand, use meditation techniques drawn from Buddhism for pursuing objectives that are central for them, respectively, as contemporary …
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Peace Makers or Draft Dodgers: Haredi Resistance to Israeli Military Conscription
<p>The <em>haredim</em> in Israel are an ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious group who uphold the most conservative of Jewish laws. Instead of serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as all other Israelis do, the <em>haredim</em> are exempted from the IDF's policy of universal conscription. This …
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Construct Validation of the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites Scale for Ashkenazic Jews in the United States
… Whites Scale (Spanierman & Heppner, 2004) with Orthodox and non-Orthodox Ashkenazic (of European descent) American Jews. While Jewish-American biculturalism has been explored at length, there is a dearth of psychological research on Jewish-White biculturalism (Langman, 1999). Furthermore, the …
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Tradicionalitás és innováció – a vallástudomány és a neveléstudomány határán – a zsidó nevelésben
… similar to the one of non-Jewish children. The orthodox Jews founded separate institutions to keep the religious tradition and to keep away from the gentile, non-Jewish cultures. I agree with the thoughts of Antónia Szász, which say that the traditional (the orthodox or conservative), and the …