Ultra-Orthodox/Haredi Education

Finkelman, Yoel

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_58

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“…Men generally expressed a more positive view of quotidian life within their former communities. Given that women in Haredi communities are subject to more restrictions, less inclusion in ritual life, and often treated as secondary within a male-dominated society (Bilu, 2003;Finkelman, 2011), it is not surprising that they experienced greater push from their communities of origin.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Pull and Pushmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leaving a covenantal religion: Orthodox Jewish disaffiliation from an immigration psychology perspective

Engelman

Milstein

Schonfeld

et al. 2020

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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This study explored psychological variables associated with disaffiliation from Orthodox Judaism (a covenantal community), and subsequent wellness. A web-based survey (N = 206) assessed factors previously used to study immigrants: push (distress within origin community), pull (toward destination community), and goal attainment. Psychological wellness, perceived stress, overall health, and loneliness were also assessed. Findings included: 1) strong pull toward opportunities for physical and ideological autonomy; 2) those who experienced more push toward disaffiliation, reported decreased current wellness; 3) goal attainment was associated with increased wellbeing; 4) significant differences in the experiences of disaffiliation between men and women; 5) most who disaffiliated left religion altogether; those who remained religious decreased their participation, and few joined non-Jewish faith communities. Results demonstrate that this immigration paradigm can be adapted to advance research on individuals who disaffiliate from covenantal religious communities.

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Section: Gender Differences In Pull and Pushmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leaving a covenantal religion: Orthodox Jewish disaffiliation from an immigration psychology perspective

Engelman

Milstein

Schonfeld

et al. 2020

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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“…Non-Ultra-Orthodox Jewish scholars describe the society as structured along conservative, patriarchal lines (Kalagy & Braun-Lewensohn, 2019) whereby the dominant social model is that of 'a woman that holds a job in order to support a husband that studies Torah and does not work for his living' (Almog & Perry-Hazan, 2011, p. 275). This is not to suggest that women's work is solely valued for its potential for financial gain, as '[a]ccording to official Haredi doctrine, particularly in Israel, the woman earns an equal share of her husband's credit for his Torah study if she provides for him and the family on a material and emotional level' (Finkelman, 2011(Finkelman, , p. 1074. A woman's role, in providing for one's family, is thus also considered as an act of religious devotion.…”

Section: Ultra-orthodox Jewish Society In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Professional reflexivity and the paradox of freedom: Negotiating professional boundaries in a Jewish Ultra-Orthodox female music teacher education programme

Westerlund

Karlsen

Kallio

2021

International Journal of Music Education

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Embracing an ethos of sharing music and practices across cultural boundaries, the multicultural vision of music (teacher) education has paid scarce attention to the paradox of freedom that arises between such freedoms and the complex politics that frame and constrain teachers’ choices and values. In this article, we explore these demands of professional reflexivity through an instrumental case study of music teacher educators working in an all-female, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish music teacher education programme in Israel. Through a thematic analysis of data generated together with six teacher educators, we illustrate how their context-responsive approaches to developing programme visions engage with processes of censorship and cultural translation, as teachers work to align their professional boundaries within established religious boundaries. This boundary-matching and hybridity required may be seen to result in intense processes of professional reflexivity that raises questions as to how all teacher education programme visions might engage with the moral order of a society and highlights the need for international music teacher education to develop a critical, reflexive awareness of how values shape professional work.

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“…The roots of current-day Haredi society may be found in nineteenth century Hungary, where it first began to emerge in response to processes of secularization and modernization embraced by many contemporary European Jews (Finkelman, 2011;Friedman, 1991). Historian Jacob Katz (1984;1992) perceived the Haredi way of life as a post-traditional phenomenon formed in response to dogmas that found their way into traditional Jewish communities in Europe following the emergence of modernity.…”

Section: Haredi Society -Historical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

To Join or Not to Join, and How to Join: Higher Education as an Option in the Israeli Haredi World Today

Davidovitch

Soen

2014

ISS

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The State of Israel is gradually increasing its efforts to integrate the ultra-Orthodox population within Israeli society both in general (in the army, in employment) and in higher education in particular. The major question arising in all systems where attempts are being made to integrate this population is whether they should be encouraged to join separate settings or existent settings, together with the rest of the population. This question is at the heart of the current article. The article suggests that policy shapers in Israeli higher education object to establishing unique institutions for the ultra-Orthodox; their integration in existing settings as well should only serve as an intermediate solution. The solution devised by the CHE (Council for Higher Education) is the "platform" or "inn" institution -a Haredi or ultra-orthodox institution of higher education operating under the academic wings and direct ISSN 2329-521X 2014 www.macrothink.org/iss 51 control of an existing and recognized academic institution. At present it seems that despite forecasts regarding the significance of providing accessibility to higher education for the ultra-Orthodox in Israel, we will probably witness a similar process to that which occurred in Israeli higher education in the 1990s, one of universalization and popularization. At first there will be a significant rise in the proportion of ultra-Orthodox joining the system and then the numbers will level out. Issues in Social Science

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Ultra-Orthodox/Haredi Education

Cited by 33 publications

References 9 publications

Leaving a covenantal religion: Orthodox Jewish disaffiliation from an immigration psychology perspective

Leaving a covenantal religion: Orthodox Jewish disaffiliation from an immigration psychology perspective

Professional reflexivity and the paradox of freedom: Negotiating professional boundaries in a Jewish Ultra-Orthodox female music teacher education programme

To Join or Not to Join, and How to Join: Higher Education as an Option in the Israeli Haredi World Today

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