Mumps Outbreak in Orthodox Jewish Communities in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 367 (18) ◽  
pp. 1704-1713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert E. Barskey ◽  
Cynthia Schulte ◽  
Jennifer B. Rosen ◽  
Elizabeth F. Handschur ◽  
Elizabeth Rausch-Phung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Jewish Communities

scholarly journals Torah against the Virus, Rabbis against the Government: Ultra-Orthodoxy Facing the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Galina Zelenina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
The United States ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
The Government

The paper discusses a number of the most remarkable responses to the COVID‑19 pandemic and to the social isolation measures coming from several, mostly ultra‑Orthodox, Jewish communities in Israel, the United States, and Russia. It examines major elements of the crisis discourse, i.e., the hermeneutics of the causes and meanings of the pandemic; the affirmation of group borders and hierarchies as a result of the search for culprits; the relations between the religious community and the state; as well as the possible transformations of social behavior and ritual practices resulting from the crisis.

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Symptom Onset in Culturally Linked Orthodox Jewish Communities Across Multiple Regions in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. e212816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Zyskind ◽  
Avi Z. Rosenberg ◽  
Jason Zimmerman ◽  
Hiam Naiditch ◽  
Aaron E. Glatt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Symptom Onset ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Multiple Regions

Raanan Rein, Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina, trans. Marsha Grenzeback. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 166 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
American Jews ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

This chapter reviews the books Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (2014), by Raanan Rein, translated by Marsha Grenzeback, and Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas (2014), edited by Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin. Rein’s book deals with the “making” of Argentina through football (soccer), while Muscling in on New Worlds focuses on the “making” of the Americas (mainly the one America, called the United States) through sports. Muscling in on New Worlds is a collection of essays that seeks to advance the common theme of sport as “an avenue by which Jews threaded the needle of asserting a Jewish identity.” Topics include Jews as boxers, Jews and football, Jews and yoga, Orthodox Jewish athletes, and American Jews and baseball. There are also essays about the cinematic and literary representations of Jews in sports.

Statement from the Editors

2004 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
American Jewry ◽  
The World ◽  
Jewish Historian

To launch a new annual into a world which seems over-saturated with academic journals would seem a foolhardy and even superfluous undertaking. Yet we believe that Polin is a unique venture and we are convinced that it has a weighty task to fulfil. Polish Jewry was one of the largest and most important Jewish communities in the world. By the late seventeenth century, nearly three-quarters of the world's Jews lived within the borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Polish Jewry provided the basis for the religious tradition of much of the Jewish world, and the territories of the former Polish states were also the source for those movements - Zionism, Socialism, as well as Orthodox ones - which were to transform the Jewish world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As late as 1939, Poland still contained the second-largest Jewish community in the world, while the largest, that in the United States, derived to a considerable extent from the Polish lands. It was the great Jewish historian Salo Baron who described American Jewry as 'a bridge built by Polish Jews'....

Bearing Witness

2007 ◽  
pp. 324-336
Author(s):  
Joanna B. Michlic
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Central Poland ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Village

HENRYK GRYNBERG was born in Warsaw in 1936 into an Orthodox Jewish family, and raised in the village of Radoszyna near Mińsk Mazowiecki in central Poland. He survived the Holocaust in hiding with his mother. He left for the United States in 1967 in protest at the Polish government’s antisemitic practices and the censorship of his writing. He is the author of some thirty books of prose, poetry, drama, and essays, and his work has been translated from Polish into many languages. Titles. translated into English include ...

Group Size, Social Class, Religion, and Politics

2017 ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Chaim I. Waxman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
York City ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Core ◽  
Jewish Demography

This chapter focuses on determining the size of the Orthodox Jewish population in the United States and difficulties related to the problem of estimating the Jewish population as a whole. It analyses the acceptance of the notion of the 'core Jewish population' among social scientists and Jewish communal professionals. It also looks at major debates relating to significantly different estimates of population size among those specializing in Jewish demography. The chapter addresses questions as to whether belonging to an Orthodox synagogue makes one Orthodox, or whether being Orthodox entails matters of faith and behaviour. It cites the UJA-Federation of New York, which estimated the total Orthodox population in New York City at 493,000 in 2013.

The Bible and Judaism in America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Sarna
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
The Bible ◽  
American Jewish Identity ◽  
Jewish Scriptures ◽  
Four Books ◽  
American Jewish

The Jewish Holy Scriptures have long served as a defining symbol of American Jewish communal life and culture. A copy of the Torah first arrived in what is now New York City in 1655, and ever after the presence of the Jewish scriptures has helped identify and coalesce Jewish communities throughout the colonies and then the United States. American Jewish communities have continued to privilege the first five books of the Bible, but there are twenty-four books in the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible (and its several American translations) continues to be a mainstay in American Jewish identity, helping give shape and define the character of Jewish adherents and their communities throughout the United States.

Attempts to Control the Pulpit: Medieval Judaism and Beyond

2014 ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Marc Saperstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Structural Problem ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter shows the perspective of those Jewish leaders who tried to restrict the freedom of expression of preachers when delivering sermons on controversial issues. Beginning in the thirteenth century, the chapter follows this theme into the modern period and includes the Jewish communities of the United States. It reveals a structural problem of Jewish preaching in the Middle Ages and — to a large extent — in the modern period as well. Unlike the situation in the Catholic Church, where the authority to preach was fairly strictly regulated and preaching without authorization was by its very nature a potentially heretical activity whatever the content of the sermon might be, medieval Jewish communities had no definition of who was permitted to speak from the pulpit. In theory, any male Jew who was respected enough to find a group of Jews willing to listen was entitled to deliver a sermon.

Domesticity and the Home (Page): Blogging and the Blurring of Public and Private among Orthodox Jewish Women

Jews at Home ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 257-282
Author(s):  
Andrea Lieber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Home Pages ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Daily Diaries ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
The Many

This chapter turns a feminist lens on blogs as the literary voice of Orthodox Jewish women in England and the United States, but finds that these women's productions defy easy categorization. They are extensions of home because their content typically relates the woman's responsibility for family and home. They are ‘home pages’ where these women can voice their frustrations and joys, but unlike conversations, in which they can control who listens, these daily diaries are public. The chapter scrutinizes the many non-Jewish reporters drawing attention to the blogs and their surprise that what they assumed to be an isolated, pre-modern group would log on from computers in a ‘traditional’ Jewish household. At the same time, it reveals internal conflicts within the group about how their communications can be reconciled with halakhah, and their potential to change the role of women.

Rites of Passage: Conversionary in-Marriages in the Finnish Jewish Communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Mercédesz Czimbalmos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Jewish Communities

Abstract Debates over intermarriages and conversions are at the heart of Jewish concerns today. International studies outline a growing number of intermarriages or their considerations within several European countries and the United States. Yet, the Nordic context in general and the Finnish context specifically are understudied. The current study seeks to fill the gap in the existing research by contributing to the field of conversion studies in general and the research in Jewish intermarriages and conversions in particular in Europe and in Finland by analyzing newly gathered ethnographic materials from the years 2019–2020 through adapting Sylvia Barack Fishman’s typology on conversionary in-marriages to the Finnish context.

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