Suggests that as a result of the new wave of ethnicism, for the first time in their history in the United States, the Jews are showing signs of becoming a pressure group. (Author/AM)

Notes that the ritualization of lachrymosity is not limited to Jews. Black History week, the marking of Black Sunday by the North Irish Catholics, and the commemoration of significant events in Palestinian-Israeli relations by the Palestinians are of this nature. (Author)

Jewish studies have split into two camps. The one camp is the ethnic and the other is the academic. The crisis of ethnic studies arose because the ethnics ignored the disciplines of the academy, and because the academy found a way to segregate the ethnics. (MLW)

Jewish Israeli male and female students (N=772) in Grades 9-12 (aged 14-18 years) received a Hebrew version of the 130-item Offer Self-Image Questionnaire. Results are discussed within ecological-cultural frameworks and compared to American research to see how the subjects' self-image reflects the universality of twentieth-century living and…

Notes that Jews have long been recognized for their moderate drinking practices and for their low rates of alcohol problems. Reviews body of literature on Jewish drinking, extracts the factors that appear to provide Jews with their "immunity," and discusses how these factors may be applied to prevention programs. (Author/NB)

Describes eight activity ideas designed to assist students in understanding the historical background of the dispute between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews. (DH)

Using Israeli biology matriculation examination results from 1983 and 1984, this article compares the achievement of Arab and Jewish students on the paper and pencil examinations and the practical laboratory examinations. Achievement differences between girls and boys are discussed, as well as the effects of a inquiry-oriented biology curriculum.…

Analyzes argumentative talk as a sociable function among some ethnic groups. Even though speakers repeatedly disagree, remain nonaligned with each other, and compete for interactional goods, they do so in a nonserious way, and in ways which actually display their solidarity and protect their intimacy. The cultural relativity of norms of evaluation…

How rabbinic Judaism interprets the following laws and doctrines from the Bible is examined: the seven mitzvot of the Sons of Noah, laws of war, doctrines concerning the administration of justice, and political organization according to Abravenel. Spinoza's contribution to modern political thought is described. (RM)

Argues that teachers must bring works of the Holocaust to the classroom and focus discussion around its revelations. (FL)

The effect that the immigrant experience had on the work of American Jewish artists is the subject of this paper. It also questions whether there is a distinctive Jewish art while using the examples of specific artists and their development in the United States. (Author/RK)

Both groups show evidence of a response style biased toward the extreme right of multiple choice arrays which was, however, more reliable among the Bedouins. (Author/AM)

The literature of the Holocaust casts light into one of the darkest shadows in history--it is a literature worth teaching not only because of the lessons it teaches, but because of its reach into the depths of human experience. The teacher's job in teaching about the Holocaust is to explore and expose--to help students find their way through the…

The Christian Identity movement is a religious movement derived from the premise that the white race is the offspring of the lost tribes of Israel and that whites, not Jews, are God's chosen people. The "seedline doctrine," which is taught by Pastor Dan Gayman, a former high school principal, and other preachers of the Christian Identity…