Jewish Renewal

BACKGROUND OF SHAUL MAGID Shaul Magid is a professor of religious studies and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair of Jewish Studies in Modern Judaism at Indiana University. In addition, on the site he says that he grew up in a secular Jewish household in New York and then become serious about religion at the age of 20 in which he dove deeply into the world of Hasidism. He says that he is fascinated by the "complex nexus of Judaism and American counterculture" of his youth and writes about the

Gentrification. What comes to mind when you hear this word? What connotations are associated with this term? Most people associate this word with a negative connotation, while others believe it to be positive. However, gentrification is an inevitable process that cities go through and it brings about positive and negative changes because it can improve the lifestyle of the residents of the communities, but it can also result in the displacement of lower income residents, and spurs socioeconomic conflicts

Smith insist that gentrification is actually a powerful intent within the urban regeneration strategies and to mount a critical challenge to the idea that gentrification is inoffensive even though the scale of the process becomes more threatening and the absorption of gentrification into a wider neoliberal urbanism becomes more tangible. The author finds ways that gentrification has evolved as a competitive urban strategy within the same global economy. This has resulted into the same process of

Gentrification is the process of renovating a city or neighborhood to offer modern places to work, play, and eat. Supporters argue that it brings economic growth and prosperity to the city, while decreasing poverty in the area. However, residents of these areas claim that gentrification has ruined the culture of the neighborhood while driving out low-income residents. While it is important to maintain cities and prevent them from wearing down over time, gentrification provides too many burdens on

discrimination. Although there are no accounts of explicit racial zoning ordinances directed against these groups, racial covenants were employed extensively against Hispanics in the West and Southwest. Public housing site and tenant selection16 and urban renewal policy have also served to confine Hispanics to segregated and inferior housing. Residential opportunities for Hispanics have also been constricted by racial discrimination in the private housing market. Private market studies reveal that Hispanics

For many years, Detroit has been described as the “Come Back City”. A presumption will be made that the significant reasons for urban rot are, among potential others are evolving demographics, deindustrialization, political disappointment, poor urban arranging, and racial separation. Detroit can still be viewed as a beautiful city full of culture and art, both in its stately decay and in its growing natural abundance. Indeed, Detroit remains to be one of the finest sights to be seen with a little

negatives to the community because they have lost their childhood store or restaurant, there are positives to gentrification. Gentrification is beneficial to our community because of the displacement of not only the buildings but of the people, urban renewal, and property value. During gentrification there are certain displacements that improve and benefit our community as a whole. The displacement of people coming from all different races and culture increasing the diversity in the communities and

Gentrification has become a common phenomenon throughout many major cities in the United States and it is impacting millions. Gentrification can be dated back to the urban renewal and slum clearance, and post war reconstruction programs implemented during the 1950s and 1960s Schaffer and Smith 1986). Although the main idea of gentrification is to, from an economic standpoint, rebuild the city and redevelop its urban core, some people are in fact negatively impacted. There seems to be a trend on the

In simple terms, gentrification is the purchasing of property values in low value neighborhoods by middle or upper-middle class families. This causes the property values to rise in these areas, which often cause the lower-income families to be forced to move out since they will no longer be able to afford living in the neighborhood. This phenomena of gentrification has been happening in Milwaukee, Montana and Austin, Texas, but for slightly different reasons. Source: The picture shown above

Poverty is the outcome of economic inequalities that are sustained by the social problems prevalent in our society. The lack of equal opportunities has created social margins where people in crisis are expelled to the economic edge. In a society where members are stratified by wealth and status, those who live in poverty are seen as deservingly powerless and ultimately abandoned to comply with their temporary crises as permanent. Economic segregation reinforces the unequal separation amongst social