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Adult Ed with Dr. Rivka Schwartz: Modern Orthodox Jews and American Citizenship part 2/3

January 18, 2018
In the second part of her series on Modern Orthodox Jews and American Citizenship, Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz analyzes how broader American trends of political sorting, combined with the socioeconomic and geographic homogeneity of yeshiva day schools, have insulated Modern Orthodox Jews and weakened their investment in shared national concerns.
Rivka Schwartz

Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz

Dr. Schwartz serves as Associate Principal, General Studies at SAR High School, and as a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She earned her Ph.D. in the history of science from Princeton University.

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