1 Luis Lugo et al., "A Portrait of Jewish Americans: Findings from a Pew Research Center Survey of US Jews." Pew Research Institute (2013), 10; Josh Nathan-Kazis, “Orthodox Population Grows Faster Than First Figures in Pew Jewish America Study, Forward, November 12, 2013, accessed March 27, 2016, http://forward.com/news/187429/0rthodox-population-grows-faster-tha-first-figure/#article-comments.
2 Pew Research Center, “A Portrait of American Orthodox Jews” (2015), 10-11.
3 UJA Federation: http://www.ujafedny.org/who-we-are/our-mission/jewish-community-study-fast-facts
4 Pew, “American Orthodox,” 3-4.
5 Cohen, “Jewish Community,” 29.
6 Pew, “American Orthodox,” 4
7 Cohen, “Jewish Community,” 212.
8 Lugo et al., “Jewish Americans,” 177.
9 ישנה ספרות מקיפה למדי אודות החסידים האמריקנים. העבודות הבאות סייעו במיוחד למחבר המאמר:
Ayala Fader, Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009); Joseph Berger, The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and their Battles with America (New York: Harper Collins, 2014; Jerome Mintz, Hasidic People: A Place in the New World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009); Israel Rubin, Satmar: Two Generations of an Urban Island, 2nd. ed. (New York: Peter Lang, 1997). The discussion herein of the Hasidic, Yeshivish, Syrian, and Chabad/Lubavitch communities are informed by in-depth interviews that the author conducted with current and former members of these communities.
10 Cohen, “Jewish Community,” 214.
11 הספרות אודות הקהילה ה"ישיבתית" האמריקנית מצומצמת. למחקר חדש הכולל גם מידע על הקהילה האורתודוקסית המודרנית, ראו:
Adam Ferziger, Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2015). See also, William B. Helmreich, The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry augmented ed. (Hoboken, NJ: KTAV, 2000).
12 Cohen, “Jewish Community,” 214.
13 Cohen, “Jewish Community,” 214.
14 לדיון אודות תחושת המשבר בקרב הקהילה האורתודוקסית המודרנית ולמידע נוסף על הקהילה, ראו
Jack Wertheimer, “Can Modern Orthodox Survive?” Mosaic, August 3, 2014, accessed August 16, 2016, http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2014/08/can-modern-orthodoxy-survive/, ואת התגובות לכך
15 Cohen, “Jewish Community,” 19, 244n.16.
16 Cohen, “Jewish Community,” 245.
17 הסטטיסטיקה לגבי חב"ד-לובביץ' נמסרה למחבר ע"י מנהלן בכיר שעובד במטה הקהילה ב- Crown Heights, ברוקלין.
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28 “Video: Zwiebel.”
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30 Shlomo Sprecher, “Mezizah be-Peh—Therapeutic Touch or Hippocratic Vestige?” Hakirah, the Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, 3 (2006):15-66.
31 Sharon Otterman, “Mayer de Blasio and Rabbis Near Accord on New Circumcision Rule,” New York Times, January 14, 2015.
32 Marc Santora, “Suit is Filed Over Move to Regulate Circumcision,” New York Times, October 11, 2012.
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