Hagar Lahav
Biographic Data
| ID | 921697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hagar Lahav |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hagar |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahav |
| SIGNATURE | LAHAV H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapir College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6964-6323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What is beat expertise? News sorting as a novel method for studying traits of journalists’ proficiency
This exploratory study develops and tests a new approach to the study of expertise in journalism. It introduces a new method, News Sorting, which takes journalists out of their comfort zone by asking them to rank a sample of their recent publications and reflect on their challenges. This novel method is combined with two theoretical frameworks: Journalistic Content Knowledge, designed to study specialized beat journalists, and Naturalistic Decisi…
Rethinking the role of common-sense in journalism and journalism studies
Despite its crucial role in the epistemology of journalism, journalists’ reliance on common- sense has received little and unsystematic scholarly attention. This conceptual paper calls for placing common-sense at the center of the epistemology of news, while underpinning it with a more systematic approach that draws not only from journalism studies but also from philosophy and political science. The paper discusses the conditions appropriate for …
Secular-Believing Diasporic Jews
By analyzing the musical works of Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen, this study examines the theological expressions of secular Jews in the diaspora who retain elements of belief. Drawing on contemporary theories of lived religion and post-secular spirituality, it explores how their lyrics articulate distinctive forms of Jewish spirituality outside traditional frameworks. Through a close textual analysis of their final albums, this study reveals compl…
Sal Restivo
What on Earth do Journalists Know? A New Model of Knowledge Brokers’ Expertise
The article offers a new theoretical model that conceptualizes the “exotic” expertise of journalists and other knowledge-brokers who specialize in particular domains (e.g., teachers, librarians, analysts). The model adapts theories from sociology, pedagogy and philosophy and juxtaposes them against the insights of 14 editors-in-chief from leading Israeli media, in order to validate, refine and illustrate the theoretical generalizations. According…
Jewish Secular-Believer Women in Israel
About a quarter of Israeli Jews are secular-believers. They identify themselves as secular but also believe in some kind of divinity (whether or not they use the term 'God'). As opposed to the 'secularization thesis', which perceives such combination of secularism and faith as a contradiction in terms, the current post-secular paradigm sees such hybridity as a deep manifestation of the complex relations between the secular and the religious in po…
William James in the Holy Land
The article attempts to broaden our understanding of faith and belief (Hebrew: emuna) in non-religious spheres in Israel, defining Israeli Jewish secular-believers as self-identified secular (Hebrew: hiloni) people who believe in “whatever may be considered as the divine”. It analyzes the emuna discourse of secular-believer women, as manifested in their religious/spiritual feelings, experiences, and interpretations. Employing the theoretical lens…
Postsecular theology
Rooted in the postsecular turn of the study of religion and society, postsecular theology is conceptualized in this article as an umbrella term for theologies offering hybrid interpretations of religiosity and spirituality within a framework that adopts numerous ostensibly secular values and perceptions. In this article, I apply postsecular theological reading to two pairs of thinkers: post-Christian feminist theologians Mary Daly and Daphne Hamp…
Post-Secular Jewish Feminist Theology
About 25% of the Jewish population in Israel consists of “secular believers.” They self-identify as secular but also believe in God or some kind of higher/deeper power(s). Their identity conflicts with the conventional identification of secularism with atheism, as do post-secular theologies, whose theological ideas reject traditional religion while adopting concepts of faith. Western feminism proved especially conducive to the development of post…
What do Secular-believer Women in Israel Believe in
Secular-believers, who constitute about 25% of Israeli Jews, are self-identified secular people who believe in some kind of divinity. Based on in-depth interviews with secular-believer women, this study aims to reveal their theological assumptions and claims. It examines metaphors and images participants used to relate to the divine as well as the theological categories they emphasized. The study uncovers the pluralistic nature of secular-believe…
Authors and Poets Write the News
This study analyzes a journalistic community's interpretation of an experiment in which authors (primarily fiction writers) and poets replaced the reporters of a major Israeli newspaper and produced the news in two special issues. Using a mix of methodologies—content analysis, interviews with journalists and authors, a survey among journalists and analysis of readers' responses—the study shows that the journalistic community reacted conservativel…
Are reporters replaceable? Literary authors produce a daily newspaper
One of the questions dominating discourse on the changing face of the news industry and the future of journalism concerns the extent to which professional news reporters may be replaced by a series of new human and technological agents, such as bloggers, citizen journalists, user-generated content, offshore reporters and news-story composing algorithms. This article addresses a ‘quasi-experimental’ case study in which a group of international and…
The Giver of Life and the Griever of Death
This article discusses gender aspects of the journalistic coverage of the Second Lebanon War by Israeli TV. The findings reveal that, in the social reality presented in the TV news during the war, women were relegated to the periphery by a complex process of exclusionary representation. Three primary subprocesses produced this exclusionary representation of women: concealing, transparency, and constructing women's presence and gendered images. Th…
If You Can't Earn Enough—teach”
This article explores the growing tendency for newspaper journalists in Israel to “moonlight” as lecturers on academic programs of communication and journalism studies. Drawing on materials from in-depth interviews, the paper suggests that two seemingly opposite trends are combining to create a new professional tendency. On the one hand, mainstream newspapers continue in sustained decline while, on the other hand, journalism studies as an academi…
The One
This article examines the cultural ways in which traditional Judaism understands the relationship between an individual and Divinity. The article shows that this understanding has deep gendered dimensions. Grounded in feminist critiques of theology, as well as in Jewish studies and cultural studies, the article shows that the conceptualization of God-person relationship, in both Orthodox and Kaballic Jewish streams, is based on a hierarchical div…
What on Earth do Journalists Know? A New Model of Knowledge Brokers’ Expertise
The article offers a new theoretical model that conceptualizes the “exotic” expertise of journalists and other knowledge-brokers who specialize in particular domains (e.g., teachers, librarians, analysts). The model adapts theories from sociology, pedagogy and philosophy and juxtaposes them against the insights of 14 editors-in-chief from leading Israeli media, in order to validate, refine and illustrate the theoretical generalizations. According…
Authors and Poets Write the News
This study analyzes a journalistic community's interpretation of an experiment in which authors (primarily fiction writers) and poets replaced the reporters of a major Israeli newspaper and produced the news in two special issues. Using a mix of methodologies—content analysis, interviews with journalists and authors, a survey among journalists and analysis of readers' responses—the study shows that the journalistic community reacted conservativel…
Are reporters replaceable? Literary authors produce a daily newspaper
One of the questions dominating discourse on the changing face of the news industry and the future of journalism concerns the extent to which professional news reporters may be replaced by a series of new human and technological agents, such as bloggers, citizen journalists, user-generated content, offshore reporters and news-story composing algorithms. This article addresses a ‘quasi-experimental’ case study in which a group of international and…
Jewish Secular-Believer Women in Israel
About a quarter of Israeli Jews are secular-believers. They identify themselves as secular but also believe in some kind of divinity (whether or not they use the term 'God'). As opposed to the 'secularization thesis', which perceives such combination of secularism and faith as a contradiction in terms, the current post-secular paradigm sees such hybridity as a deep manifestation of the complex relations between the secular and the religious in po…
What do Secular-believer Women in Israel Believe in
Secular-believers, who constitute about 25% of Israeli Jews, are self-identified secular people who believe in some kind of divinity. Based on in-depth interviews with secular-believer women, this study aims to reveal their theological assumptions and claims. It examines metaphors and images participants used to relate to the divine as well as the theological categories they emphasized. The study uncovers the pluralistic nature of secular-believe…
The Giver of Life and the Griever of Death
This article discusses gender aspects of the journalistic coverage of the Second Lebanon War by Israeli TV. The findings reveal that, in the social reality presented in the TV news during the war, women were relegated to the periphery by a complex process of exclusionary representation. Three primary subprocesses produced this exclusionary representation of women: concealing, transparency, and constructing women's presence and gendered images. Th…
William James in the Holy Land
The article attempts to broaden our understanding of faith and belief (Hebrew: emuna) in non-religious spheres in Israel, defining Israeli Jewish secular-believers as self-identified secular (Hebrew: hiloni) people who believe in “whatever may be considered as the divine”. It analyzes the emuna discourse of secular-believer women, as manifested in their religious/spiritual feelings, experiences, and interpretations. Employing the theoretical lens…
Post-Secular Jewish Feminist Theology
About 25% of the Jewish population in Israel consists of “secular believers.” They self-identify as secular but also believe in God or some kind of higher/deeper power(s). Their identity conflicts with the conventional identification of secularism with atheism, as do post-secular theologies, whose theological ideas reject traditional religion while adopting concepts of faith. Western feminism proved especially conducive to the development of post…
The One
This article examines the cultural ways in which traditional Judaism understands the relationship between an individual and Divinity. The article shows that this understanding has deep gendered dimensions. Grounded in feminist critiques of theology, as well as in Jewish studies and cultural studies, the article shows that the conceptualization of God-person relationship, in both Orthodox and Kaballic Jewish streams, is based on a hierarchical div…
If You Can't Earn Enough—teach”
This article explores the growing tendency for newspaper journalists in Israel to “moonlight” as lecturers on academic programs of communication and journalism studies. Drawing on materials from in-depth interviews, the paper suggests that two seemingly opposite trends are combining to create a new professional tendency. On the one hand, mainstream newspapers continue in sustained decline while, on the other hand, journalism studies as an academi…
The Giver of Life and the Griever of Death
This article discusses gender aspects of the journalistic coverage of the Second Lebanon War by Israeli TV. The findings reveal that, in the social reality presented in the TV news during the war, women were relegated to the periphery by a complex process of exclusionary representation. Three primary subprocesses produced this exclusionary representation of women: concealing, transparency, and constructing women's presence and gendered images. Th…
Authors and Poets Write the News
This study analyzes a journalistic community's interpretation of an experiment in which authors (primarily fiction writers) and poets replaced the reporters of a major Israeli newspaper and produced the news in two special issues. Using a mix of methodologies—content analysis, interviews with journalists and authors, a survey among journalists and analysis of readers' responses—the study shows that the journalistic community reacted conservativel…
Are reporters replaceable? Literary authors produce a daily newspaper
One of the questions dominating discourse on the changing face of the news industry and the future of journalism concerns the extent to which professional news reporters may be replaced by a series of new human and technological agents, such as bloggers, citizen journalists, user-generated content, offshore reporters and news-story composing algorithms. This article addresses a ‘quasi-experimental’ case study in which a group of international and…
Post-Secular Jewish Feminist Theology
About 25% of the Jewish population in Israel consists of “secular believers.” They self-identify as secular but also believe in God or some kind of higher/deeper power(s). Their identity conflicts with the conventional identification of secularism with atheism, as do post-secular theologies, whose theological ideas reject traditional religion while adopting concepts of faith. Western feminism proved especially conducive to the development of post…
What do Secular-believer Women in Israel Believe in
Secular-believers, who constitute about 25% of Israeli Jews, are self-identified secular people who believe in some kind of divinity. Based on in-depth interviews with secular-believer women, this study aims to reveal their theological assumptions and claims. It examines metaphors and images participants used to relate to the divine as well as the theological categories they emphasized. The study uncovers the pluralistic nature of secular-believe…
Postsecular theology
Rooted in the postsecular turn of the study of religion and society, postsecular theology is conceptualized in this article as an umbrella term for theologies offering hybrid interpretations of religiosity and spirituality within a framework that adopts numerous ostensibly secular values and perceptions. In this article, I apply postsecular theological reading to two pairs of thinkers: post-Christian feminist theologians Mary Daly and Daphne Hamp…
Jewish Secular-Believer Women in Israel
About a quarter of Israeli Jews are secular-believers. They identify themselves as secular but also believe in some kind of divinity (whether or not they use the term 'God'). As opposed to the 'secularization thesis', which perceives such combination of secularism and faith as a contradiction in terms, the current post-secular paradigm sees such hybridity as a deep manifestation of the complex relations between the secular and the religious in po…
William James in the Holy Land
The article attempts to broaden our understanding of faith and belief (Hebrew: emuna) in non-religious spheres in Israel, defining Israeli Jewish secular-believers as self-identified secular (Hebrew: hiloni) people who believe in “whatever may be considered as the divine”. It analyzes the emuna discourse of secular-believer women, as manifested in their religious/spiritual feelings, experiences, and interpretations. Employing the theoretical lens…
What on Earth do Journalists Know? A New Model of Knowledge Brokers’ Expertise
The article offers a new theoretical model that conceptualizes the “exotic” expertise of journalists and other knowledge-brokers who specialize in particular domains (e.g., teachers, librarians, analysts). The model adapts theories from sociology, pedagogy and philosophy and juxtaposes them against the insights of 14 editors-in-chief from leading Israeli media, in order to validate, refine and illustrate the theoretical generalizations. According…
Sal Restivo
What is beat expertise? News sorting as a novel method for studying traits of journalists’ proficiency
This exploratory study develops and tests a new approach to the study of expertise in journalism. It introduces a new method, News Sorting, which takes journalists out of their comfort zone by asking them to rank a sample of their recent publications and reflect on their challenges. This novel method is combined with two theoretical frameworks: Journalistic Content Knowledge, designed to study specialized beat journalists, and Naturalistic Decisi…
Rethinking the role of common-sense in journalism and journalism studies
Despite its crucial role in the epistemology of journalism, journalists’ reliance on common- sense has received little and unsystematic scholarly attention. This conceptual paper calls for placing common-sense at the center of the epistemology of news, while underpinning it with a more systematic approach that draws not only from journalism studies but also from philosophy and political science. The paper discusses the conditions appropriate for …
Secular-Believing Diasporic Jews
By analyzing the musical works of Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen, this study examines the theological expressions of secular Jews in the diaspora who retain elements of belief. Drawing on contemporary theories of lived religion and post-secular spirituality, it explores how their lyrics articulate distinctive forms of Jewish spirituality outside traditional frameworks. Through a close textual analysis of their final albums, this study reveals compl…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works)