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This paper addresses the relation between various elements of Jewish religious identity, in the sense of the narratives Jews create about their religiosity, and stances they hold towards those whom they consider “others”. These stances range from prejudice, via tolerance, to pluralism. The first part of the paper lays the theoretical foundations for the claim that multiple identities might foster open-mindedness among religious individuals. This is done first by describing the empirical link between prejudice and religious identity and reflecting on some of its causes; then by questioning the ubiquity of that link by demonstrating the connection between openness to others and religiosity in other studies, and offering some explanations for the contextual differences between the two sets of findings.
Published: 2013
Updated: Mar. 19, 2014
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The first part of this paper presents the issue of 'multiple identities' as it has been addressed in Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory and as it has been addressed by Erikson's critics. Within psychology the debate surrounding Erikson's theory has focused on a) whether and how the current sociological postmodern context engenders a fragmentation of identity, b) whether this should be viewed as problematic, and c) whether psychology itself reflects and contributes to problematizing multiple identities. The second part of the paper discusses this debate's possible relevance to the field of Jewish education by presenting a series of issues around which Jewish educators might deliberate as they seek to apply insights from this psychological debate to their work. In both parts of the article, a third level of intermediate positions is presented as an alternative to the dichotomizing debate.
Published: 2013
Updated: Mar. 19, 2014
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This article examines the characteristic features of Jewish-identity perception amongst young Jewish Israelis within the broader paradigm known as “Jewish peoplehood”. It was written in the context of the public agenda concerning peoplehood that found voice in the Israeli Parliament’s Education Committee debate on 25 November, 2006 that determined this issue to constitute “one of the most important and weighty issues in sustaining the Jewish identity of the Jewish nation-state − and also the most neglected issue in the Israeli education system”. The article deals with practical lifestyle representations of this approach, as well as the question of how encounters between Israeli student-teachers and their peers in the diaspora influence the Jewish identity of young Israelis
Published: 2013
Updated: Mar. 19, 2014