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Post-Truth Politics and Invented Traditions:
The Case of the Haredi Society in Israel

August 9, 2021 | Dr. Menachem Keren-Kratz

Abstract Today, particularly following the election campaign to the presidency of the United States in 2016 and the introduction of the phrase “Fake News” to the daily vocabulary, the concept of “Post-Truth Politics” is well established. The phrase “post-truth” was defined by Oxford Dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective […]

Torah is their Trade

May 28, 2003 | David J. Schnall

In Israel today, the haredi world continues to condemn any recommendations to integrate into the army or the workforce and thus leave their religious studies. The non-haredi community, on the other hand, bears the brunt of military and reserve duty. This essay attempts to show that a balance between study and work values stands at the core of classic Jewish thought, and that it would be to the benefit of the haridim to become integrated into the broader Israeli society through military duty and assimilation into the workforce.

French Jewry Facing Haredization

January 15, 1999 | Prof. Shmuel Trigano

Jewish communal Judaism in France and a second return to more traditional practices.

The Haredization of American Orthodox Jewry

February 15, 1998 | Chaim I. Waxman

Haredi-Secular Conflict in Jerusalem

December 15, 1996

The Fight Over “Special Allocations” for Haredi Religious Education in Israel

March 15, 1992

Haredi Conceptions of Obligations and Rights: Polish Jewry, c.1900-1939

October 2, 1991