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Dr. Oren Golan

E-mail: ongolan@gmail.com

Personal Site:  http://cyber-youth.blogspot.co.il 


Golan is a faculty member at both the Department of Leadership and Educational Policy and the Department of Learning, Teaching and Instruction at the University of Haifa. His work focuses on digital religion and online self-educating communities, with special attention to the new media activity of Jewish communities in the US and Israel. 

In his research, Golan explores cases such as Chabad’s digital outreach, the Zionist Religious approach to new media, academic knowledge integration of Haredi students, online dating, Jewish apps in the US and Haredi web journalism. For his work on digital religion, he has been awarded several endowments. This includes, a Marie Curie grant (2013), an ISF grant (2017), and has been a visiting fellow in both the Center for Media and Religion at NYU and the Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. Golan is also a PI at the Israeli LINKS initiative and leads a NetLab on Communities, New Media and Education.

Selected Publications on New Media and Judaism

List of Supervised Students