These three issues of the newsletter offer editorials, action plans for Holocaust programming, testimonies of experiences of survivors and liberators, project ideas, and teaching suggestions. The brief newsletters are intended to provide resource ideas and materials, as well as thought-provoking ideas, for implementation of Holocaust instruction…

Providing an historical and current account of Israel's early childhood care and educational system, this report depicts a state-supported system that has emphasized, through both home and classroom techniques, early intervention for the Jewish disadvantaged and handicapped child and family. Focusing on the goals, methods, and realities of child…

Reform Judaism, the branch of Judaism most liberal in religious practice and most committed to adapting to the realities of modern America, has recently abandoned its opposition to Jewish day schools and has thereby signalled its acceptance of an alternative to public education. When the ancestors of these Reform Jews came to America in the middle…

The study compares the achievement of Jewish and Arab students in the high school biology matriculation examinations in Israel with special reference to differences between boys and girls. While Jewish and Arab students follow the same syllabus and take identical matriculation examinations, significant differences exist in learning and achievement…

This study was conducted to ascertain Jewish school enrollment in the U.S. during 1974-75 and to collect data that permit comparison with previous surveys conducted in 1958, 1962, 1966, and 1970. Data on Jewish school enrollment were received from 55 communities representing 84 percent of the estimated Jewish population in the U.S. Based on these…

Utilizing a sample of Jewish undergraduate students, evidence is presented to indicate that a minority group which is not deprived materially can nonetheless perceive itself as receiving disadvantages from its minority group status. The most frequently perceived disadvantages (as well as advantages) are enumerated and discussed. (EH)

This teacher resource contains readings, discussion questions, and learning activities on the Holocaust for use with junior and senior high school students. The materials can be used in social studies and literature classes. The developers believe that it is the obligation of educators to make youth aware of the widespread existence of man's…

Child development in Israel takes place in a context of many unique influences. Influences which define the nature of family experience include religion, ethnic group membership, immigrant or non-immigrant status, and urban or rural living. All of these influences are situated within, and further influenced by, the continuous state of military…

The document presents a radio script about resettlement programs for contemporary Soviet Jewish refugees and problems and expectations concerning their acculturation and integration into American life. Part of a series entitled "Options in Education," it was produced by National Public Radio and the Institute for Educational Leadership.…

Today, while secular society has opened up a new range of roles and psychological expectations to women, the status and life of Orthodox Jewish women remain circumscribed by Jewish religious law. Orthodox women face inequality in four areas: in the synagogue and participation in prayer; in religious education; in legal areas such as status in…

PROPOSED IS AN EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN COMING TO DAYTON, OHIO, FROM APPALACHIA. THE SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF A SYNAGOGUE IN DAYTON WOULD "ADOPT" A KINDERGARTEN CLASS FOR A 5-YEAR PERIOD. A COOPERATIVE APPROACH TO WORKING WITH THE CHILDREN WOULD COMBINE THE SERVICES OF VOLUNTEERS RECRUITED FROM THE…

Strong positive identification with a specific group is potentially both functional and dysfunctional for the solidarity of an encompassing larger social system. The impact of strong ethnic group identification upon societal integration is here explored by analyzing data obtained from 515 Negroes as part of the Cornell Studies in Intergroup…

The basic premise of this dissertation is that racial, ethnic, and religious differences although significant, are not sufficient in and of themselves, to account for aging individuals' self-appraisal. Two distinct groups of aged, urban poor, blacks and Jews, compose the study population. The sample resided in deteriorating urban areas…

College and university faculty, together with their students, have established a reputation as being among the most liberal-left political groups in the United States. The extent to which that reputation is deserved and reasons why political liberality is so dominant on the nation's campuses are the subjects of this document. The empirical…

Characterizes the separate educational systems of Arabs and Jews in Israel, with emphasis on social studies content of geography, history, and civics. Journal availability: see SO 506 831. (AV)