The Jewish Custom of Delaying Communal Prayer: A View From Communication Theory1

Hellinger, Moshe; Rashi, Tsuriel

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“…Probably the one that is pushing the farthest out domain is a study in which two Israeli scholars applied Agenda Setting to religious practice in Jewish synagogues in Europe. 5 They explicitly used the framework of Agenda Setting in this analysis. So, if you take the core idea you can begin to expand into a lot of new areas.…”

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Colloquy with Maxwell McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin: agenda setting, a limitless theory in a connected world

Trigueros¹,

Lacasa-Mas

2018

Church, Communication and Culture

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Professor Maxwell McCombs is a widely known authority in Journalism. Much of his historical and intellectual background, as well as his contribution to journalism and political communication, is found in this interview, done in 22-23 May 2017 in Austin (Texas) by two qualified interviewers: a corporate communications professional, and a professor of communications theory. The long conversations with the interviewee allow them to extract the best of his academic background and, one may also say, of his amiable character. Professor McCombs is currently the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been visiting professor in many different US and worldwide universities. After the original Chapel Hill Study (North Carolina) with his colleague Donald Shaw he coined the term 'agenda setting' in 1968. He received his M.A. and his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from Tulane University.

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Section: The Open Future Of the Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Colloquy with Maxwell McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin: agenda setting, a limitless theory in a connected world

Trigueros¹,

Lacasa-Mas

2018

Church, Communication and Culture

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“…Although most agenda-setting research from Chapel Hill to the present day has investigated public issues, political candidates, and other aspects of public affairs, agenda-setting theory is applicable to a much wider range of subjects, ranging from organizations and institutions (Carroll, 2011; Bantimaroudis, Zyglidopoulos & Symeou, 2010), to sports teams (Fortunato, 2001), to religious practice (Hellinger & Rashi, 2009; Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture Volume 4, Issue 1 (2015) https://jrmdc.com 132 Buddenbaum, 2001), and to many other areas of interest to scholars. In this study, moving beyond the dominant focus of agenda-setting research on public affairs, the object of interest was Judaism.…”

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Agenda Setting, Religion and New Media: The Chabad Case Study

Rashi

McCombs

2015

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

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Theoretically grounded in agenda setting, a theory focused on the transfer of influence from communication media to a public, this paper examines the media activity of Chabad, an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement that is committed both to making Judaism generally accessible and to influencing public discourse. Rabbi M. M. Schneerson, the movement’s late wise and charismatic leader, undertook this dual mission in light of his conception of the theological grounds for the exploitation of mass media. Our examination of Chabad’s agenda-setting communication strategy was guided by two research questions: What is the range of communication media used by Chabad in an effort to achieve its goal? What evidence is there regarding the agenda-setting success of these communication efforts? Although it is obviously difficult to judge the precise degree of success, it is clear that Chabad is involved in a wide range of media and public activity and has already influenced public discourse well beyond the range of the movement itself and of the Jewish religion. The answer to the two questions above will help us understand the various movements that try to influence the agenda on religious grounds, so that we can determine the interface between religion and setting the agenda. It may also assist the efforts of other religious groups that want to influence the media and the political agenda.

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“…On the synagogue's contribution as a platform for influencing the community agenda, seeHellinger and Rashi (2009),Rashi and McCombs (2017).…”

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Justifications for Medical Quarantine in Jewish Ethics

Rashi

2020

J Relig Health

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The current Corona epidemic broke out at the end of 2019 and by early in the year 2020 was spreading all around the world from China to the USA. Among the moves in the fight against the proliferation of the illness, international borders were closed to prevent travel among countries. In the next stage in the fight, many countries imposed quarantines on carriers of the disease as well as on those around them and even on entire civilian populations. Herein, I offer the religious justifications in Judaism for preserving the public's health in general and particularly in the face of disease, especially during of the course of an epidemic. Similarly, I also deal with the religious requirements for preventing the spread of an illness, which come at the expense of fulfilling religious commandments (mitzvot) and suspending them with a view toward preserving life. My conclusion is that ever since the time of the Bible, Judaism has viewed the maintenance of health as having social, religious, and medical importance. Rabbis over the last centuries have justified separating and isolating the sick and extending that isolation to individuals who are in danger of succumbing to the illness. They have found religious justifications for issuing instructions to suspend religious observances in order to prevent the spread of a disease, as is the case in the epidemic that the world is now experiencing with the Corona virus.

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The Jewish Custom of Delaying Communal Prayer: A View From Communication Theory1

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Colloquy with Maxwell McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin: agenda setting, a limitless theory in a connected world

Colloquy with Maxwell McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin: agenda setting, a limitless theory in a connected world

Agenda Setting, Religion and New Media: The Chabad Case Study

Justifications for Medical Quarantine in Jewish Ethics

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