Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood
by
Iddo Tavory
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles’ traffic. Those who work “Jewish jobs”—teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis—will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world...