From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The Chabadization of Contemporary Orthodoxy
Certain non-chassidic leaders initially opposed the Chabad effort to spread Jewish learning and practice amongst all Jews. But these policies were later changed, and non-chassidic groups began to design programs which—in many ways—imitate Chabad practices.
| Topics: | Chassidism, Shelichut, Chabad-Lubavitch, Outreach & Influence, Kabbalah & Chassidism |
Dr. Adam S. Ferziger is a Jewish historian and author who has studied Jewish assimilation in the Diaspora, and the the evolving relationship between observant and non-observant Jews. He is senior lecturer and vice chairman of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. Currently he is a visiting fellow at Wolfson College and the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, and co-leader of the international research group on Orthodoxy and theology at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
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