Three Perspectives on Jewish Religious Life

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This session includes three distinct explorations of Jewish religious life. The first paper is a cultural history of the Shabbat kiddush ritual in shaping synagogue communities. The second paper shatters gender norms in presenting the pilgrimage to the shrine of Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav as a feminine rite. The third paper is an auto-ethnography of non-Orthodox synagogue life in Israel.

Sub Unit

• Social Science

Chair

• Joshua Krug

Individual Presentations

• From Kugel to Cocktails: A Cultural History of the Kiddush Ritual in Shaping Synagogue Communities (Hebrew) - Michal Shaul, Herzog Academic College

• Sanctity, Security and Gender: Jewish Pilgrimages to Uman in 2020-2023 - Alla Marchenko, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Whose story is it: Autoethnography and the power of Israeli Non-Orthodox Congregations (Hebrew) - Einat Libel Hass, Bar Ilan University and Ramat Gan Academic College

Zoom Host

• Zoom Host 16