ד"ר עינת ליבל-הס

2017-2018 The American Council for Judaism Fellowship for the 2017–2018 Academic Year, the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA), Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

2017 Pinchas Churgin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis

2016 Israeli Reform Movement and Miriam Elnathan Scholarship

Publications:

          (a) Articles:

Einat Libel-Hass (2018). "Beit Daniel- A portrait of a Progressive/ Reform congregation in Israel", the Jewish Almanach, the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem [in German].

)b) Under Review:

"Liberal Jewish Congregation in Tel Aviv: Is it really a New Synagogue Model?" Submitted for a book on the Reform Movement in Israel in honor of Rabbi Moshe Zemer ob"m [expected to be published in June 2019, in Hebrew].

          (c) Work in Progress:

"From Vision to Reality: The Organizational and Leadership Development of Non-Orthodox Congregations in Tel Aviv".

"The Floaters- portrait of individuals who wander between Liberal and other Tel Aviv Congregations"

"The Role of the World Union for Progressive Judaism in Establishing Congregations in Palestine/ Israel"

"Whose Story is this? Autoethnography and the Power of Congregation"

Teaching Positions:

2017-2018 Lecturer: The History of Jewish Education in the 20th Century: Between the State of Israel and the Diaspora (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies).

2003-2018 Lecturer: Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of the Israeli Society;    Academic Writing; Qualitative Research Methods. Teacher Assistant: Introduction to Anthropology, Sociology of the Israeli Society, (Ashkelon Academic College). 

2007-2010 Teaching Assistant: Sociology of the Israeli Society, The Inter-

Disciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar – Ilan University.

2002-2003 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Anthropology, Department of Behavioral Studies, Achva College, Beer Tovia.

2001-2002 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Anthropology, Department of Behavioral Studies, Sapir College, Sderot.

Papers Presented at Conferences and Invited Seminars

 (a) Presentations in Academic Conferences

July 2018

the 11th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS): "Searching for Roots of Jewish Traditions", Krakow, Poland

Title: "A Matter of Conversion: Reform Jewish Conversion in Israel as a Process of Identity and Belonging Construction".

June 2018

The Jubilee Conference of the Integration Program in Education: Integration, Exclusion and Social Change, the Open University, Raanana, Israel

Title: Liberal Jewish Education in Public Schools in Tel Aviv: Between Integration and Change".

May 2018

The 46^th conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Dimona, Israel.

Title: "The Floaters- a Portrait of Individuals Moving Between Jewish and Other Congregations in the Tel Aviv Space".

International Conference on the Occasion of Israel's 70^th Anniversary, Israel: A Case Study – The Jewish State through the Prism of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ben Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben Gurion University if the Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Israel.

Title: "In the Face of Challenge: Beit Daniel as a Case Study for the Challenges Faced by Reform Judaism as It seeks Israeli Society's Acceptance".

March 2018

The 2^nd Conference of the Israeli Association for Religions Research: Scriptures – Their Character and Location in Religions, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan.

Title: "Jewish Reform Prayer Books and Prayer Arrangements in Tel Aviv as a Continuous and Interpretive Creation".

February 2018

The 8^th Israeli Inter-Disciplinary Conference for Qulitative Research: Qulitative Research – Between the Personal and the Political, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

Title:  "Whose Story is this? Autoethnography and the Power of Reform and Conservative Congregations

August 2017

The 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.     

Title: "Prayer and the City: Reform Jewish Prayer as a Reflection of the Tel  

Aviv Urban Landscape".

July 2017

The 34^th conference of ISSR/SISR (International Society for the Study of Religion): Religion, Cooperation and Conflict in Diverse Societies, Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Title: "A Story of Conversion: Reform Jewish Conversion in Israel as a Process of Identity and Belonging Construction".

December 2016

The 48th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, California.

Title: "The Globalization of American Judaism in a Tel Avivian Reform Congregation".

May 2015

The 7th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Title: "Is it really a New Synagogue Model: Jewish Liberal Congregations in Tel Aviv".

July 2010

The 9^th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS):  Judaism in the Mediterranean Context, Ravenna, Italy.

Title: "Female Visibility in the Public Space of an Israeli "Masorti"/ Conservative Congregation.

February 2008

The Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Tel Aviv University.

Title: "Power Relations in an Israeli Conservative Congregation: Ethnographic Analysis.

(b) Invited Lectures and Colloquium Talks

August 2018

The Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: Fellowship Seminar.

Title: "Uncovering the Roots of the Progressive/ Reform Judaism in Israel".

May 2017

Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel: Graduate Students' Colloquium.

Title: "The Reform Movement in Israel- Successes, Difficulties and Chances".

March 2017

Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel: Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry Colloquium.

Title: "Is it really a New Synagogue Model: Jewish Liberal Congregations in Tel Aviv".

Community Teaching and Outreach

August 2017

Day of Learning, the Young Adults Forum of the Israeli Reform movement, Beit Daniel Congregation, Israel.

Title of presentation: "Young Adults, Congregational Affiliation and Spiritual/ Religious Identity".

May 2017

Shavuot holiday evening program, the New Congregation of Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Title of presentation: "A Story of Identity and Belonging: Liberal Conversion from Sociological Perspective".

The 38^th International Convention of the World Union for Progressive Judaism: Connections, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, Israel.

Title of Workshop: "What Can Reform Congregations in Israel Teach Us about our Own?".

April 2017

Presentation in honor of receiving the Pinchas Churgin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis, Beit Daniel Congregation, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Title: "A Portrait of the Most Involved Members and Founders of the Beit Daniel Congregation".

January 2017

Evening of Learning, the New Congregation of Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Title of presentation: "Organizational Models of Congregations".

June 2018

International Track of the IMPJ (Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism) Biennial Conference, Kibbutz Shefaim, Israel.

Title of presentation: "The Globalization of American Judaism in a Tel Aviv Reform Congregation".

Participation in Research and Discussion Groups

2016-2018 "Education and Politics", Minerva Center, Tel Aviv University.

2016-2017 "Social Solidarity", The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University.

2015-2016 "Theoretical Tremors: Contemporary Sociological and Anthropological Theory in Light of the Israeli Society", The Advance Studies Unit, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

2015-2016 "Between Past and Present: Cultural Heritage and its ways of integrating into Research and Practice in Israel", Tel Aviv University.

Membership in Professional Societies:

Association for Israel Studies (AIS)

International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR)                

Israeli Anthropological Association

World Union for Jewish Studies

Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)

European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS)

Research interests:

Cultural Dynamics between Israel and the USA

Sociology of the Israeli Society

Liberal Judaism (Reform and Conservative Judaism)

Anthropology of Religion

Congregational Studies

Space, Place and Identity