Rabbi Seymour N. Siegel presents four theses in the main address entitled "American Jews and Political Life": (1) Jewish voters as a group are more liberal than the general voting public. (2) Jewish organizations generally represent the views of their constituencies. (3) The liberal orientation in the Jewish community is true neither to Jewish…

Analysis of information on Soviet Jewish immigration to the United States reveals the following: (1) the strongest motivation for emigration was anti-semitism, followed by a desire to secure one's children's future, opposition to or dissatisfaction with the political and economic system, the desire to join one's family, and the belief that there…

Douglas Ehninger and Wayne Brockriede have both proposed the possibility of "arguers-as-lovers." To get a better idea of how this "lover" stance might actually look, an examination of two individuals engaged in arguing would be useful. The written correspondence between two young scholars, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (a Christian)…

Two samples of Israeli Arab village children were tested on an Arabic translation of the Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence; the subtest profiles of these samples were compared to a relevant subsample of the Israeli Jewish normative national sample. (Author/JM)

How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined not to over-simplify the…

Following a 1978 commando raid by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Israeli troops crossed the Israeli-Lebanese border to establish a "security belt" to prevent further PLO action in Israel. A study was conducted to determine whether the coverage of the Israeli invasion by the three commercial television networks in the United…

A continuing debate among those studying the Holocaust in Europe during the Nazi era is when Americans first learned of the mass murder of Jews being carried out in the extermination camps. Historians suggest that Americans had been made skeptical of charges of German brutality by World War I "atrocity propaganda," and that the language…

On November 1, 1978, President Carter established the President's Commission on the Holocaust and charged it with the responsibility of deciding what might constitute an appropriate national memorial to all those who had perished in the Holocaust. This publication is the report of that Commission which consisted of 34 members including survivors,…

ISRAEL CAN ACT AS A LABORATORY TO TEST WHETHER WESTERN CULTURE HAS THE UNDERSTANDING AND SKILLS TO INTEGRATE A RADICALLY DIFFERENT, "DEPRIVED" CULTURE INTO THE MAINSTREAM OF SOCIETY. ORIENTAL JEWS, A MINORITY WHO WILL SOON BECOME A MAJORITY GROUP, HAVE A CULTURE WHICH DOES NOT FIT INTO A MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THEIR PATRIARCHAL…

A survey to determine the extent of their Judaic studies resources was undertaken at seven university libraries belonging to the Five Associated University Libraries (FAUL) consortium or the State University of New York (SUNY) University Center libraries. Limiting Judaic resources to five major classes defined by the Library of Congress, shelf…

The stereotype of the Jewish woman as presented in the media--either a female who controls through guilt and is overly concerned with food, or a woman who is an exotic, seductive individual torn between devotion to family and pursuit of private romantic goals--is discussed in this paper. Books by Norman Mailer, John Updike, Erica Jong and Philip…

Findings of this study indicate major service needs of urban aged in areas of housing, health, and financial needs. Similarities in service needs emerged despite cultural and life style differences in the two communities. (Author)

This paper suggests that group relations in America and Israel are complex and national goals need clarification, rethinking, and reaffirmation. (Author)

Studies the relationship between the contemporary Jewish family and the major social trends affecting the minority community, investigates the nature and extent of the interaction between parents and their children, and compares the present position of the Jewish family with that of its non-Jewish counterpart. (Author/RK)

In light of the movement to heighten moral sensitivity in the classroom, the Nazi holocaust is being discussed in many parts of the country. In this article comparisons are suggested of this aspect of Jewish history with black slavery and American Indian experiences. (Author/GC)