This project examines the religious implications of an approach to "limmudei kodesh" (primarily the study of Talmud) and "halakhah" (an integration of academic scholarship with traditional Torah study and the evaluation of the educational pros and cons of a curriculum built on such a synthesis). In the concerted effort over the…

Adolescent substance abuse has been on the rise for the past few decades, constituting a major personal and social problem. According to researchers, the causes are many, including biological, temperamental, psychological, behavioral, and environmental factors. Yet, only a few intervention methods have proven effective. Numerous studies…

Reading attitude has been of great concern since the 1960s. A sex-appropriate attitude toward reading can help learners become effective readers. A study compared the sex differences in attitudes toward reading among seven different Jewish groups. The groups included university students and adults from Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox…

Discussed ethnic groups in the United States and the fact that they are subsiding and disappearing. (Author/RK)

Presents an overview of a Jewish literature course for high school students with the observation that the heritage of a people can endure only as long as it is celebrated by the young. (RB)

Discusses the education of the Jews in 19th-century century Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. There was rapid growth of state-controlled Jewish secular education from almost none in 1844 to 106 schools with 3487 students in 1855. (RM)

Describes schooling in Israel, where religion is the center of learning for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim children. Outlines five kinds of schools available to Jewish children. (Author/JM)

Describes the participation of women in the struggle for the creation of Israel. Holds that Israeli women have failed to achieve political effectiveness because they could come to no common definition of the injustices they suffered and, thus, to no common decision on how to achieve redress through political organization. (GC)

Discusses the problems of teaching Talmudic traditions to modern Jewish high school students. The author recommends that teachers avoid alienating their students by acknowledging the validity of non-orthodox viewpoints in their classrooms. Journal available from Human Sciences Press, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011. (AM)

Although Karl Marx made anti-Semitic statements, his basic principles necessarily required advocacy of equal Jewish rights. (Author/EB)

Residents (N=27) of a Jewish home for the aged were given a battery of 25 tests of cognitive abilities. There were marked individual differences among participants. Poorer performance was associated with carrying a diagnosis of organic brain syndrome and with a number of other background variables. (Author)

Examines some of the issues surrounding a school district's decision to remove Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" from the list of books in the high school English curriculum. (TB)

Highlights the reintroduction and renativization of Hebrew in Israel, and examines commonly made assumptions about Hebrew and its place in Israeli life. Topics include linguistic homogeneity, Jewish multilingualism, and Hebraism. (32 references) (Author/CB)

Investigated and compared Jewish (n=219) and non-Jewish (n=197) students' perceptions of the anti-Semitic atmosphere at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jewish students were significantly more likely to perceive anti-Semitic environment than were non-Jewish students. Nonetheless, 71.4% of non-Jewish students believed Jewish students were…

Explores the correlation between notions of sacred language and territory in the ideology of a present-day Ultraorthodox Jewish group. Three cases were found that demonstrated a parallel between linguistic and territorial ideology, and point to an intrinsic link demonstrating an ongoing, active ideological tie, rather than a set of worn, petrified…