The Center for Jewish and Democratic Education
Center Members
Director of the Center for Jewish and Democratic Education
Dr. Lotem Perry-Hazan
E-mail: lotem.perry@edu.haifa.ac.il
Personal Site: http://lph.edu.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Lotem Perry-Hazan is the Head of the Jewish Education Research Centre. She is also the Head of the Educational Management Program at the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education. Her research interests include the intersection of law and religion in education policy and children’s rights in education. Many of her studies focus on the context of Haredi education in Israel and in other countries.
Dr. Perry-Hazan is a graduate of NYU School of Law (LL.M., Vanderbilt Scholar, 2006) and the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Law (LL.B., summa cum laude, 2004; Ph.D., summa cum laude, 2011). In 2004-2005 she clerked for Dorit Beinish, the former Honorable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. She was a visiting scholar at the Youth Research Centre at Melbourne University Graduate School of Education (2018), the Civic and Moral Education Initiative at Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2014), and the European Association for Education Law and Policy at the University of Antwerp (2012).
Some of Dr. Perry-Hazan’s recent studies have been published in journals such as Journal of Education Policy, Youth & Society, Critical Studies in Education, Children and Youth Services Review, the Oxford Review of Education, and the Cambridge Journal of Education. She received grants from the Israeli Science Foundation (for the research “CCTV Cameras in Israeli Schools: Law, Privacy, and Education,” with Michael D. Birnhack, 2015-2019) and from the Edmond De Rothschild Foundation (for the research “Haredim in the Academia: Between Dropout and Hope,” with Osnat Rubin and Nurit Novis-Deutsch, 2019-2020).
Selected publications on Jewish Education
Books
Perry-Hazan, L. (2013). The ultra-Orthodox education in Israel: Law, culture and politics. Jerusalem: The Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Nevo Publishers (Hebrew).
Katzir, S. & Perry-Hazan, L. (2018). The National Haredi Education: From foundation to establishment. Jerusalem: The Israeli Institute of Democracy (Hebrew).
Journal Articles
Almog, S. & Perry Hazan, L. (2011). The ability to claim and the opportunity to imagine: Rights consciousness and the education of ultra-Orthodox girls. Journal of Law and Education, 40, 273-303 (equal contribution).
Almog, S. & Perry-Hazan, L. (2012). Conceptualizing the right of children to adaptable education. International Journal of Children’s Rights, 20, 486-500 (equal contribution).
Almog, S. & Perry-Hazan, L. (2013). Contesting religious authoriality: The Immanuel ‘Beis-Yaakov’ school segregation case. The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26(1), 211-226 (equal contribution).
Almog, S. & Perry-Hazan, L. (2012). Religion, gender and law in the Immanuel case: Words, voices and interpretations. Israel Studies in Language and Society, 5(1-2), 205-221 (Hebrew) (equal contribution).
Perry-Hazan, L., Almog, S. & A’li, N. (2013). Applying international human rights standards to national curricula: Insights from literature education at Jewish and Arab Israeli high-schools. Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review, VI(1), 1-20 (equal contribution)
Perry-Hazan, L. (2014). From the constitution to the classroom: Educational freedom in Antwerp’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools. Journal of School Choice, 8(3), 475-502.
Perry-Hazan, L. (2015). The impact of education law on Antwerp’s Haredi schools: Lessons for Israel. Studies in Haredi Society Journal, 2, 60-87 (Hebrew).
Perry-Hazan, L. (2015). Court-led educational reforms in political third rails: Lessons from the litigation over ultra-religious Jewish schools in Israel. Journal of Education Policy, 30(5), 713-746.
Perry-Hazan, L. (2015). Curricular choices of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities: Translating international human rights law into education policy. Oxford Review of Education, 41(5), 628-646.
Nir, T. & Perry-Hazan, L. (2016). The framed right to participate in municipal youth councils and its educational impact. Children and Youth Services Review, 69, 174-183 (equal contribution).
Perry-Hazan, L. & Perelshtain, O. (2018). Mobilizing ethnic equality in admissions to schools: Litigation, politics, and educational change. Journal of Educational Change, 19, 51-75.
Finefter-Rosenbluh, I. & Perry-Hazan, L. (2018). Teacher diversity and the right to adaptable education in the religiously-oriented school: What can we learn from students’ perceptions? Youth and Society, 50(5) 615–635 (equal contribution).
Perry-Hazan, L., The regulation of the ultra-Orthodox education in Israel: Between politics and law. Studies in Educational Management and Organization (Hebrew).
Nir, T. & Perry-Hazan, L. (in press). The right to participation in Israeli municipal youth councils. Studies in Educational Management and Organization (Hebrew).
Perry-Hazan, L., Religious affiliation, ethnicity and power in the admission policies to Jewish religious schools. Critical Studies in Education.
Perry-Hazan, L. (in press). From adequate values to adequate outcomes: A comparative perspective on the curricula in Haredi schools. Law, Society and Culture (Hebrew).
Katzir, S. & Perry-Hazan, L. (in press), Legitimizing public schooling and innovative education policies in strict religious communities: The story of the new Haredi public education stream in Israel. Journal of Education Policy (equal contribution).
Book Chapters
Almog, S. & Perry-Hazan, L. (2017). Is there no wisdom in a woman except with the spindle? The right of ultra-Orthodox girls and women to human rights education. In A. Barak, I. Zamir, A. Cohen, M. Saboray & E. Afary (Eds.), Strassberg-Cohen Book (pp. 123-147), Srigim: Nevo (equal contribution).