BOOK CHAPTERS

 

2005 “Ethnography and Biography: The Stories People Tell of their Lives as Jews” in Educational Deliberations vol. 1,  ed. By M. Nisan and  Oded Schremer (Keter) pp. 295-302

 

2002  “Haredim and the Public Square: The Nature of the Social Contract,” in Jewish Polity and American Civil Society edited by A. Mittleman, J.D. Sarna and R. Licht,  (New York: Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 311-336.

 

2000  “Holding Firmly with an Open Hand: Life in Two Conservative Synagogues,” in Jack Wertheimer, ed. Jews in the Center (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000), pp. 95-196.

 

1999  “Orthodox Jews, the City and the Suburb,” in  Ezra Mendelsohn, ed. People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge Studies in Contemporary Jewry vol. XV (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999), pp.19-34.

 

1999  “From T-Shirts to Peak Experiences:  Teens, The Israel Trip and Jewish Identity” in Y. Rich and M. Rosenak Abiding Challenges: Research Perspectives on Jewish Education  (London and Tel Aviv: Freund Publishing), pp. 231-250.

 

1996  "Guides of the Faithful: Contemporary Religious Zionist Rabbis"  in R. Scott Appleby, ed.  Spokesmen for the Despised (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press), pp. 328-362

 

1995  "The Vision from The Madrasa and Bes Medrash: Some Parallels between Islam and Judaism" in Fundamentalisms Comprehended, ed. by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press),  pp. 71-95.

 

1995  "The Holy and the Orthodox" in Events and Movements in Modern Judaism edited by Raphael Patai and E. Goldsmith (New York: Paragon House) pp. 91-102

 

1995  "The Ninth Siyum HaShas at Madison Square Garden: Contra-Acculturation in American Life,” in Norman Cohen and Robert Seltzer (eds.)  Americanization of the  Jews   (New York Univ Press , pp. 311-338.

           

1995  "Foreword" in New World Hasidim: Ethnographic Studies of Hasidic Jews in America ed. by Janet Belcove-Shalin (SUNY Press)

1994  "Quiescent and Active Fundamentalism: The Jewish Cases" in Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, ed. by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press), chapter 8, pp. 173-196. [also edited part 2 of the volume, "Accounting for Jewish Fundamentalisms"].

 

1992  "Inside the Jewish School," in What We Know About Jewish Education edited by Stuart L. Kelman (Los Angeles: Torah Aura), pp. 303-330.

 

1992  "Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Jews: The Case of the 'Haredim'," (co-authored with Menachem Friedman) in Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin Marty and Scott Appleby (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 197-264.

 

1991  "Modern Jews and the Persistence of Religion," in Religion and the Social Order: New Directions in Theory and Research, edited by David G. Bromley (Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press), pp. 129-147.

 

1991  "Passover in the Mea Shearim and Geula Neighborhoods of Jerusalem," in Ronald Dotterer, Deborah Dash Moore and Steven Cohen [eds.] Jewish Settlement and Community in the Modern Western World (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Sussquehanna University Press, 1990), pp. 200 - 207.

 

1991  "Tzedakah: Orthodox Jews and Charitable Giving," in Barry A. Kosmin & Paul Ritterband [eds] Contemporary Jewish Philanthropy in America (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 133-144.

 

1990  "The Orthodox, the Ultra-Orthodox," and the Elections for the Twelfth Knesset," in Asher Arian & Michal Shamir [eds.] The Elections in Israel -- 1988 (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 135-153.

 

1990  "The Jews: Schism or Division," in T. Robbins and D. Anthony [eds] In Gods We Trust, 2nd edition (New Brunswick: Transaction Books: 1990), pp. 185-198.

 

1990  "Religious Jewry in the Secular Press: Aftermath of the 1988 Knesset Elections," in Charles Liebman [ed.] Conflict and Accommodation between Jews in Israel (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing, 1990), pp. 45-66 [in the Hebrew edition, pp. 54-69].

 

1988  "Jews and Judaica: Who Owns and Buys What?" in Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Studies of American Jewish Identities and Institutions, edited by Walter Zenner (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988), pp. 260-279.

 

1987  "Orthodox Jews: An Open or Closed Group?" in Uncivil Religion: Interreligious Hostility in America, edited by Robert N. Bellah and Frederick E. Greenspahn  (New York: Crossroad; 1987), pp. 115-131.

 

1986   "The Jewish Family Today: An Overview," in Tradition and Transition, edited by Jonathan Sacks (London: Jews' College Publications; 1986) pp.179-207.

 

1986  "Ritual Variation Among Modern Orthodox Jews in the United States," with Steven M. Cohen in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 2 (Bloomington, Indiana; 1986), pp. 164‑187.

 

1981  "Sounds of Modern Orthodoxy: The Language of Talmud Study," in Never Say Die: An Introduction to the Sociology of Yiddish (ed.) J. Fishman (The Hague, Mouton, 1981), pp.227‑253.

 

1981  "Constructing Orthodoxy," in T. Robbins and D. Anthony [eds] In Gods We Trust, (Transaction Books: 1981) pp. 141‑157. {First appeared in SOCIETY (May) 1978, vol 15, #3}.

 

1979  "Social Groups," Ch. 7, pp. 43‑48 in The Professional Resource Book for Sociology, 2nd ed. by D. Light & S. Keller (N.Y., Knopf, 1979) Resource Manual.