A questionnaire was administered to measure the religious beliefs, religious practices, religiosity, and definition of religion held by members of a conservative Jewish youth group. Independent variables included Hebrew School attendance, sex, and parental practices. Only parental practices significantly accounted for any of the variance in the…

Data from the annual General Social Surveys do not support the argument that contemporary Protestants and Catholics differ significantly in work values. Work ethic seems more related to ethnic and cultural heritage than to the religious background or affiliation of an individual. (Author/GC)

The analysis of the Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) focuses on its importance as a non-traditional form of adult education and as an institution developed by immigrants for self help and social advancement. It traces the growth of the organization and its various activities. (Author/EC)

Portrays a principal, district superintendent, and reformer, whose career lasted from 1872 to 1912. Whereas her career illuminates aspects of women's history and educational change, her conflict with the East Side community demonstrates the perils of simplistic thinking about race and ethnicity. (Author/JM)

The author, who immigrated from Germany to the United States late in 1940, celebrates our nation's Bicentennial with a look back at his absorption and growth as a citizen of the United States. (RK)

Discusses how faculty members nationwide are reacting to a Web site that tracks professors' anti-Israel statements, and to a speech by Harvard's president, who linked an anti-Israel petition to anti-Semitism. (EV)

Activities that promote Arab-Jew coexistence at the English Department and Arab College at Beth Berl College are recounted. The authors' projects, each regarded as a petal in a "Coexistence Daisy," include those related to art encounters, interprofessional relationships, and inservice training. (LB)

Reviews factors operating to limit employment and career progression of observant Jews. Discusses specific religious practices that could hamper upward mobility and mistaken perceptions of these practice by superiors and co-workers. Considers additional reasons for possible discrimination against observant Jews and supporting research. Discusses…

Examines the image of the Arab in children's fiction to illuminate attitudes which have prevented U.S. Jews and non-Jews from seeing Palestinians as human beings. Finds that the Arab and Jewish children are not portrayed as equals. (PRA)

Assessed attitudes held by 113 college students toward Jewish college students labeled as Jewish American Princesses (JAPs). Students responded to 10 social situations relevant to student populations. Three forms were used that differed only in whether situation referred to neutral person, Jewish person, or JAP. Results revealed that negative…

Examines the strength of teaching archetypes, highlighting accounts from Jewish day school teachers about their lives and work to investigate the strength of traditional conceptions of teaching. Results illustrate how a teacher draws on a strong tradition of Jewish teaching even as she transforms her enactment of that tradition to accommodate new…

This study examines the willingness of Jewish and Arab Israeli adolescents to look for help in times of distress and explores the factors that are associated with the willingness of these adolescents to look for help from formal vs. informal sources. The sample consisted of 6017 randomly selected respondents, 14-18 years old, attending secondary…

Israel's "development towns" are known to be comparable to U.S. inner cities in all but one respect: while most agree that Blacks are over-represented in the inner cities because of discrimination, there is still disagreement over how Middle Eastern Jews (Mizrahim) came to be over-represented in the towns relative to European Jews…

To begin mapping the landscape of contemporary Jewish identity from a phenomenological perspective, the authors conducted a qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews of 10 Jewish adults in the northeastern United States. Coding resulted in 6 universal themes (dynamic nature of self-identification, early formative experiences, desire to…

Considering the immense efforts invested in Holocaust education in Israel and around the world, there is very little published research which looks at the impact of this education on teenagers' modes of understanding. This qualitative study addressed two questions: When adolescents learn about the Holocaust, what are the themes they see as central…