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Chaim I. Waxman

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Sociology, Emeritus

Hadassah College Jerusalem, Behavioral Sciences, Faculty Member

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Chaim I. Waxman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, served as a member of the Department of Sociology from 1975 to 2006.

In 2017, he founded the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, and served as Chair until 2022. He continues to be a faculty member in the department.

He lives in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Chaim I. Waxman, “Between Fathers and Sons: A Review Essay – Review of ‘Soloveitchik’s Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America’, by Daniel Ross Goodman,” Modern Judaism, vol. 44, no. 3 (October 2024): 298-314

Chaim I. Waxman, “Sociological Aspects of the Prayer on behalf of Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces,” in Aviad Hacohen and Menachem Butler, eds., Praying for the Defenders of Our Destiny: The Mi Sheberach for IDF Soldiers (Cambridge, MA: The Institute for Jewish Research and Pub., 2023), 559-563

By way of introduction-I have no idea how [or if ] prayer works with God, and I certainly have no... more By way of introduction-I have no idea how [or if ] prayer works with God, and I certainly have no idea how God works. In fact, during the entire week of Parashat Bereishit, I kept asking "Why?"-"Bereishit God created the heaven(s) and earth' Why?" So far, I have found no satisfactory answer. For the purposes of the subject at hand, the Mi Sheberach prayer for the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, as a Sociologist and I can only try to deal with the issue the subject within the context of relationship between people and prayer/ prayer and people.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York’, by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers,” Contemporary Jewry, vol. 43, no. 1 (2023): 177-180

Chaim I. Waxman, “Are We Still One?” Times of Israel (27 March 2023)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Who Says American Jews are Detaching from Israel, and Why?” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 16, no. 3 (2022): 350-364

is the founding chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hadassah Academic College in Je... more is the founding chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University with which he was affiliated from 1975 to 2006. Prof. Waxman has written and edited some twenty books and more than 100 scholarly articles.

Chaim I. Waxman, “A Bleak Outlook for Orthodox Humanities,” TraditionOnline (31 January 2022)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Reflections on 50 Years of the Sociological Study of American Jewry: Statics and Dynamics 2020 Marshall Sklare Award Address,” Contemporary Jewry, vol. 41, no. 2 (2021): 313-324

This article looks at the first 50 years of the Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry a... more This article looks at the first 50 years of the Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry and finds that much of its subject matter remained constant. However, there have been significant changes in perspectives. Two cases in point are the perspectives on the impact of intermarriage and on the relationship of American Jewry with Israel. A number of the reasons for the changes in perspectives are suggested.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Restore us to You, oh God – but where to?” Times of Israel (9 August 2021)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘Yeshiva Days: Jewish Learning on the Lower East Side’, by Jonathan Boyarin,” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, vol. 53, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 159-164

Almost 30 years ago, Samuel C. Heilman and the late William B. Helmreich each published important... more Almost 30 years ago, Samuel C. Heilman and the late William B. Helmreich each published important social scientific research on the world of yeshiva study, legitimating this as a field of study and giving those of us on the "inside" a useful lens through which we might look back at ourselves and our community. Helmreich's book was a study of American yeshivas in the broad sense, and their contribution to American Judaism, while Heilman's work focused on Israel and, in fact, painted a broader portrait of ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jewry. 1 Jonathan Boyarin's new book, Yeshiva Days, differs from these pioneers by focusing on one unique yeshiva. Written by a university professor, a cultural anthropologist trained in critical theory, and published by a prestigious university press, it is refreshingly free of theoretical constructs, academic jargon, and a purely critical perspective. Further, it is an engaging combination of an ethnography of that one yeshiva and an autobiography of the researcher himself. In his role as participant-observer, Boyarin records not only what he saw but also what he understood about what he saw. Since the book is written explicitly from a personal perspective-it is an account of his days as an adult learner in the yeshiva-this adds a dimension of humanity and intellectual honesty that helps make the subject come alive. He is speaking with his readers directly, explaining where he fits in what he sees and says. Boyarin's relationship with Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ), on Manhattan's Lower East Side, began during the 1980s, prior to his having achieved an academic career, but most of the events described in the book took place in 2012-which he calls his "kollel year." During an academic sabbatical year, following an early position at the University of North Carolina and on his way to an appointment at Cornell University, he

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel’, by Daniel Gordis,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 14, no. 2 (2020): 323-326

There is a popular Israeli expression frequently used in the political context: "Things seen from... more There is a popular Israeli expression frequently used in the political context: "Things seen from here are not seen from there." In many respects, that is the basic argument of the new book by Daniel Gordis, in which he analyzes why Jews in Israel and America view politics, identity, and Judaism itself so differently. The problem for Gordis is not only that American and Israeli Jews have differing viewpoints; he suggests that their entire relationship is threatened by the growing gap between them. The author's background makes him almost uniquely positioned to analyze their divergent and even opposing perspectives, as he was born and raised in the United States and enjoyed a successful professional career there before moving to Israel with his family more than twenty years ago. Since then, he has been a major figure in Anglo-Israeli intellectual, educational, and cultural life. Gordis identifies a rift between American and Israeli Jews, which is not surprising since they live in different societies with different cultures, both of which shape one's perspective and values. The problem, Gordis avers, is that relations are weak and growing dangerously weaker. Increasingly, leaders on both sides loudly and publicly criticize one another, often claiming the other is heading down a doomed path. Prominent Israelis have voiced the opinion that American Jewry is assimilating and will eventually disappear, and prominent American Jews have expressed the view that Israel is becoming ultra-nationalistic and anti-democratic. The rift has sociocultural, demographic, and geographic bases. Gordis argues that at the core of the divide are the fundamentally different conceptions of what type of group Jews constitute and what role Judaism plays in defining that identity. Zionists view Jews as a nation that has returned to history and its rightful ancestral homeland. Israel is not universalistic; it is nationalistic-a state of and for the Jewish people. Judaism is the history and culture of that people. American Jews, by contrast, are part of a society that strives for universalism. To them, Judaism is a religion practiced within a society in which faith is an entirely personal matter. Until the second decade of the twentieth century, when their perception of it was radically transformed by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Zionism was anathema to most American Jews, especially because of its emphases on nationalism and 1

Chaim I. Waxman, “Postscript: Recent Developments in Patterns of US Emigration to Israel,” in Arnold Dashefsky and ‎Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield, eds., Americans Abroad: A Comparative Study of Emigrants from the United States, second Edition (Heidelberg: Springer, 2020), 219-225

Despite the intensification of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and various indicatio... more Despite the intensification of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and various indications of increasing disagreement between the majority of America's Jews and Israeli Jews over Israeli policies, not only have the numbers of American Jews emigrating to Israel or making "aliya" annually during the past two decades increased, but the number has actually increased steadily since the turn of the twenty-first century. This Postscript looks at their socioeconomic backgrounds, their participation in Israeli society, their religious and political composition, and their changes in the motivations for aliya during the past two decades, in an effort to understand why, despite all of the challenges, there has been no letup in the pace at which significant numbers of American Jews willingly leave the security and relative comfort they enjoy in the United States and migrate to a culturally different and conflict-ridden country.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Letter,” The Jerusalem Post (1 April 2020)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Family and Identity: Marshall Sklare, the Social Scientific Study of America’s Jews, and Jewish Communal Policy,” Contemporary Jewry, vol. 39, no. 3-4 (September – December 2019): 379-406

The contents of Contemporary Jewry, the journal of Association for the Social Scientific Study of... more The contents of Contemporary Jewry, the journal of Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ), are examined in an effort to evaluate arguments of overemphasis on the issues of intermarriage, fertility, and continuity. The findings do not indicate such an overemphasis. A socio-historical account of the field of the social scientific study of American Jewry, including an analysis of the perspectives of the new discipline's pioneer, Marshall Sklare, is then presented in an effort to explain how and why the issues of intermarriage and birth rates became central to the research of some of the major figures in ASSJ and the field in general.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America’, by Samuel Goldman,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 13, no. 1 (2019): 1-4

There are many Americans and others for whom Evangelicalism and Christian Zionism conjure up imag... more There are many Americans and others for whom Evangelicalism and Christian Zionism conjure up images of fierce, militant, religio-political extremism and/or sensationalist apocalypticism, such as portrayed in Hal Lindsey's best-selling The Late Great Planet Earth (first published by Zondervan, 1970) and the highly popular Left Behind book and film series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Samuel Goldman, a political scientist at George Washington University, where he is also executive director of the Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom, has written a lucid and well-documented analysis of the history of Christian Zionism in America that places it in a more traditional and balanced light. His book, which is directed at an interested lay audience rather than scholars of theology and political thought, examines various Christian (primarily Protestant) ideas on, and approaches to, the realization of the prophecy in which many of them believe, namely, the return of the Jews to their land.

Uzi Rebhun, Nadia Beider, Chaim I. Waxman, “Jews in the United States and Israel: A Comparative Look upon Israel’s 70th Anniversary,” The American Jewish Year Book, vol. 119 (2019): 3-37

Jews in the US and Israel exist under two different paradigms of demographic and cultural existen... more Jews in the US and Israel exist under two different paradigms of demographic and cultural existence. In the US, Jews are a very small group residing among a non-Jewish majority; In Israel, Jews constitute the overwhelming majority in a state whose raison d'etre is to fulfill the rights of Jews to self-determination. The two communities differ on at least five different levels. First, the separation between "church" and state in the US means that American Jews operate as an independent community that has to raise its own human and financial resources at both local and national levels to establish communal infrastructures and to administer its religious, cultural, educational, and social activities. In Israel, these services are largely provided by the government. These differences are likely to affect the ability to plan and implement policy geared at ensuring group cohesiveness and continuity (Elazar 1989; Liebman and Cohen 1990; Rebhun and Levy 2006). Second, the local contexts of the US and Israel suggest that Jews in each country are exposed to different general conditions at the macro level. The US has a great influence on the world, including on Israel (sometimes called "Americanization"). Both countries are strong democracies with developed economies, and are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Nevertheless, each has its own history, political system, geopolitical challenges, The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this research from the Nachum Ben-Eli Honig Fund.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea’, by Michael Brenner,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 12, no. 2 (2018): 255-258

Chaim I. Waxman, “Letter: The Situation in Israel is Advancing,” Makor Rishon, Shabbat Supplement, no. 1103 (28 September 2018): 18 (Hebrew)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Letter,” The Jerusalem Post (21 September 2018)

Chaim I. Waxman, “It takes two to tango: Mother, father, and the future of American Jewry,” Times of Israel (23 July 2018)

Chaim I. Waxman, “‘To Dream the Impossible Dream’: Zionist Halakhah, Halakhic Policy, and Practical Halakhah,” in Yedidia Z. Stern and Yair Sheleg, eds., Jewish Law and Zionism: Halakhic Ramifications of National Sovereignty (Jerusalem: The Israel Democracy Institute, 2017), 749-774 (Hebrew)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Between Fathers and Sons: A Review Essay – Review of ‘Soloveitchik’s Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America’, by Daniel Ross Goodman,” Modern Judaism, vol. 44, no. 3 (October 2024): 298-314

Chaim I. Waxman, “Sociological Aspects of the Prayer on behalf of Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces,” in Aviad Hacohen and Menachem Butler, eds., Praying for the Defenders of Our Destiny: The Mi Sheberach for IDF Soldiers (Cambridge, MA: The Institute for Jewish Research and Pub., 2023), 559-563

By way of introduction-I have no idea how [or if ] prayer works with God, and I certainly have no... more By way of introduction-I have no idea how [or if ] prayer works with God, and I certainly have no idea how God works. In fact, during the entire week of Parashat Bereishit, I kept asking "Why?"-"Bereishit God created the heaven(s) and earth' Why?" So far, I have found no satisfactory answer. For the purposes of the subject at hand, the Mi Sheberach prayer for the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, as a Sociologist and I can only try to deal with the issue the subject within the context of relationship between people and prayer/ prayer and people.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York’, by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers,” Contemporary Jewry, vol. 43, no. 1 (2023): 177-180

Chaim I. Waxman, “Are We Still One?” Times of Israel (27 March 2023)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Who Says American Jews are Detaching from Israel, and Why?” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 16, no. 3 (2022): 350-364

is the founding chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hadassah Academic College in Je... more is the founding chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University with which he was affiliated from 1975 to 2006. Prof. Waxman has written and edited some twenty books and more than 100 scholarly articles.

Chaim I. Waxman, “A Bleak Outlook for Orthodox Humanities,” TraditionOnline (31 January 2022)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Reflections on 50 Years of the Sociological Study of American Jewry: Statics and Dynamics 2020 Marshall Sklare Award Address,” Contemporary Jewry, vol. 41, no. 2 (2021): 313-324

This article looks at the first 50 years of the Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry a... more This article looks at the first 50 years of the Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry and finds that much of its subject matter remained constant. However, there have been significant changes in perspectives. Two cases in point are the perspectives on the impact of intermarriage and on the relationship of American Jewry with Israel. A number of the reasons for the changes in perspectives are suggested.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Restore us to You, oh God – but where to?” Times of Israel (9 August 2021)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘Yeshiva Days: Jewish Learning on the Lower East Side’, by Jonathan Boyarin,” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, vol. 53, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 159-164

Almost 30 years ago, Samuel C. Heilman and the late William B. Helmreich each published important... more Almost 30 years ago, Samuel C. Heilman and the late William B. Helmreich each published important social scientific research on the world of yeshiva study, legitimating this as a field of study and giving those of us on the "inside" a useful lens through which we might look back at ourselves and our community. Helmreich's book was a study of American yeshivas in the broad sense, and their contribution to American Judaism, while Heilman's work focused on Israel and, in fact, painted a broader portrait of ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jewry. 1 Jonathan Boyarin's new book, Yeshiva Days, differs from these pioneers by focusing on one unique yeshiva. Written by a university professor, a cultural anthropologist trained in critical theory, and published by a prestigious university press, it is refreshingly free of theoretical constructs, academic jargon, and a purely critical perspective. Further, it is an engaging combination of an ethnography of that one yeshiva and an autobiography of the researcher himself. In his role as participant-observer, Boyarin records not only what he saw but also what he understood about what he saw. Since the book is written explicitly from a personal perspective-it is an account of his days as an adult learner in the yeshiva-this adds a dimension of humanity and intellectual honesty that helps make the subject come alive. He is speaking with his readers directly, explaining where he fits in what he sees and says. Boyarin's relationship with Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ), on Manhattan's Lower East Side, began during the 1980s, prior to his having achieved an academic career, but most of the events described in the book took place in 2012-which he calls his "kollel year." During an academic sabbatical year, following an early position at the University of North Carolina and on his way to an appointment at Cornell University, he

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel’, by Daniel Gordis,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 14, no. 2 (2020): 323-326

There is a popular Israeli expression frequently used in the political context: "Things seen from... more There is a popular Israeli expression frequently used in the political context: "Things seen from here are not seen from there." In many respects, that is the basic argument of the new book by Daniel Gordis, in which he analyzes why Jews in Israel and America view politics, identity, and Judaism itself so differently. The problem for Gordis is not only that American and Israeli Jews have differing viewpoints; he suggests that their entire relationship is threatened by the growing gap between them. The author's background makes him almost uniquely positioned to analyze their divergent and even opposing perspectives, as he was born and raised in the United States and enjoyed a successful professional career there before moving to Israel with his family more than twenty years ago. Since then, he has been a major figure in Anglo-Israeli intellectual, educational, and cultural life. Gordis identifies a rift between American and Israeli Jews, which is not surprising since they live in different societies with different cultures, both of which shape one's perspective and values. The problem, Gordis avers, is that relations are weak and growing dangerously weaker. Increasingly, leaders on both sides loudly and publicly criticize one another, often claiming the other is heading down a doomed path. Prominent Israelis have voiced the opinion that American Jewry is assimilating and will eventually disappear, and prominent American Jews have expressed the view that Israel is becoming ultra-nationalistic and anti-democratic. The rift has sociocultural, demographic, and geographic bases. Gordis argues that at the core of the divide are the fundamentally different conceptions of what type of group Jews constitute and what role Judaism plays in defining that identity. Zionists view Jews as a nation that has returned to history and its rightful ancestral homeland. Israel is not universalistic; it is nationalistic-a state of and for the Jewish people. Judaism is the history and culture of that people. American Jews, by contrast, are part of a society that strives for universalism. To them, Judaism is a religion practiced within a society in which faith is an entirely personal matter. Until the second decade of the twentieth century, when their perception of it was radically transformed by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Zionism was anathema to most American Jews, especially because of its emphases on nationalism and 1

Chaim I. Waxman, “Postscript: Recent Developments in Patterns of US Emigration to Israel,” in Arnold Dashefsky and ‎Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield, eds., Americans Abroad: A Comparative Study of Emigrants from the United States, second Edition (Heidelberg: Springer, 2020), 219-225

Despite the intensification of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and various indicatio... more Despite the intensification of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and various indications of increasing disagreement between the majority of America's Jews and Israeli Jews over Israeli policies, not only have the numbers of American Jews emigrating to Israel or making "aliya" annually during the past two decades increased, but the number has actually increased steadily since the turn of the twenty-first century. This Postscript looks at their socioeconomic backgrounds, their participation in Israeli society, their religious and political composition, and their changes in the motivations for aliya during the past two decades, in an effort to understand why, despite all of the challenges, there has been no letup in the pace at which significant numbers of American Jews willingly leave the security and relative comfort they enjoy in the United States and migrate to a culturally different and conflict-ridden country.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Letter,” The Jerusalem Post (1 April 2020)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Family and Identity: Marshall Sklare, the Social Scientific Study of America’s Jews, and Jewish Communal Policy,” Contemporary Jewry, vol. 39, no. 3-4 (September – December 2019): 379-406

The contents of Contemporary Jewry, the journal of Association for the Social Scientific Study of... more The contents of Contemporary Jewry, the journal of Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ), are examined in an effort to evaluate arguments of overemphasis on the issues of intermarriage, fertility, and continuity. The findings do not indicate such an overemphasis. A socio-historical account of the field of the social scientific study of American Jewry, including an analysis of the perspectives of the new discipline's pioneer, Marshall Sklare, is then presented in an effort to explain how and why the issues of intermarriage and birth rates became central to the research of some of the major figures in ASSJ and the field in general.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America’, by Samuel Goldman,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 13, no. 1 (2019): 1-4

There are many Americans and others for whom Evangelicalism and Christian Zionism conjure up imag... more There are many Americans and others for whom Evangelicalism and Christian Zionism conjure up images of fierce, militant, religio-political extremism and/or sensationalist apocalypticism, such as portrayed in Hal Lindsey's best-selling The Late Great Planet Earth (first published by Zondervan, 1970) and the highly popular Left Behind book and film series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Samuel Goldman, a political scientist at George Washington University, where he is also executive director of the Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom, has written a lucid and well-documented analysis of the history of Christian Zionism in America that places it in a more traditional and balanced light. His book, which is directed at an interested lay audience rather than scholars of theology and political thought, examines various Christian (primarily Protestant) ideas on, and approaches to, the realization of the prophecy in which many of them believe, namely, the return of the Jews to their land.

Uzi Rebhun, Nadia Beider, Chaim I. Waxman, “Jews in the United States and Israel: A Comparative Look upon Israel’s 70th Anniversary,” The American Jewish Year Book, vol. 119 (2019): 3-37

Jews in the US and Israel exist under two different paradigms of demographic and cultural existen... more Jews in the US and Israel exist under two different paradigms of demographic and cultural existence. In the US, Jews are a very small group residing among a non-Jewish majority; In Israel, Jews constitute the overwhelming majority in a state whose raison d'etre is to fulfill the rights of Jews to self-determination. The two communities differ on at least five different levels. First, the separation between "church" and state in the US means that American Jews operate as an independent community that has to raise its own human and financial resources at both local and national levels to establish communal infrastructures and to administer its religious, cultural, educational, and social activities. In Israel, these services are largely provided by the government. These differences are likely to affect the ability to plan and implement policy geared at ensuring group cohesiveness and continuity (Elazar 1989; Liebman and Cohen 1990; Rebhun and Levy 2006). Second, the local contexts of the US and Israel suggest that Jews in each country are exposed to different general conditions at the macro level. The US has a great influence on the world, including on Israel (sometimes called "Americanization"). Both countries are strong democracies with developed economies, and are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Nevertheless, each has its own history, political system, geopolitical challenges, The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this research from the Nachum Ben-Eli Honig Fund.

Chaim I. Waxman, “Review of ‘In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea’, by Michael Brenner,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, vol. 12, no. 2 (2018): 255-258

Chaim I. Waxman, “Letter: The Situation in Israel is Advancing,” Makor Rishon, Shabbat Supplement, no. 1103 (28 September 2018): 18 (Hebrew)

Chaim I. Waxman, “Letter,” The Jerusalem Post (21 September 2018)

Chaim I. Waxman, “It takes two to tango: Mother, father, and the future of American Jewry,” Times of Israel (23 July 2018)

Chaim I. Waxman, “‘To Dream the Impossible Dream’: Zionist Halakhah, Halakhic Policy, and Practical Halakhah,” in Yedidia Z. Stern and Yair Sheleg, eds., Jewish Law and Zionism: Halakhic Ramifications of National Sovereignty (Jerusalem: The Israel Democracy Institute, 2017), 749-774 (Hebrew)

Chaim I. Waxman, *Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy* (Oxford: Littman Library, 2017)

Rabbi Nisson Waxman, *Shvilei Nisson*, ed. Chaim I. Waxman (Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 2013; Hebrew)

*The A to Z of Zionism*, eds. Rafael Medoff and Chaim I. Waxman (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009)

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or m... more

*Historical Dictionary of Zionism, second edition*, eds. Rafael Medoff and Chaim I. Waxman (Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2008)

Chaim I. Waxman and Ruth Yaron, *Annual Assessment, 2008, Executive Report No. 5* (Jerusalem: The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, 2008)

*Religious Zionism Post Disengagement: Future Directions*, ed. Chaim I. Waxman (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2008)

*Historical Dictionary of Zionism*, eds. Rafael Medoff and Chaim I. Waxman (Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2000)

*Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader*, eds. Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman (Hanover: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 1999)

*Tikkun Olam: Social Responsibility in Jewish Thought and Law*, eds. David Shatz, Chaim I. Waxman, and Nathan J. Diament (Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1997)

*Contemporary Jewry, vol. 16, no. 1*, ed. Chaim I. Waxman (January 1995)

*Israel as a Religious Reality*, ed. Chaim I. Waxman (Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1994)

*Religious Zionism and the State of Israel*, ed. Chaim I. Waxman [=Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, vol. 26, no. 4 (Summer 1992) (New York: Rabbinical Council of America, 1992)

Chaim I. Waxman, *American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement* (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989)

Chaim I. Waxman, *Orthodox Judaism and Modern Society: A Study of Undergraduates at Yeshiva University* (New York: Yeshiva University, 1987)

*Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman*, eds. Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman (New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1983)

Chaim I. Waxman, *America’s Jews in Transition* (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983)

Chaim I. Waxman, *The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies*, second edition (New York: Pergamon Press, 1982)

Chaim I. Waxman, *The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies* (New York: Pergamon Press, 1977)

*The Palestinians: People, History, Politics*, eds. Michael Curtis, Joseph Neyer, Chaim I. Waxman, and Allen Pollack (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1975)

Chaim I. Waxman, “The Stigma of Poverty,” (PhD Dissertation, The New School for Social Research, 1974)