This investigation studied the effect of maternal region of birth and education on the psychomotor development of 512 two-year old children born in Jerusalem. (Author)

Family therapy has been deficient in accounting for the impact of ethnic, religious, and racial values on success or failure in treating families. Jewish families respond well in family therapy due to a set of values. An individual's neurotic disposition may evolve from conflicts between family values and independent identity. (Author/JEL)

Suggests that despite assurances of the pollsters that antisemitism is not a serious problem, the Jewish community is gripped by a sense of urgency and uncertainty. (Author/AM)

It is concluded from this data that the American Jewish community deprives itself of many needed talents to the extent that it does not encourage participation in its leadership positions of all individuals, regardless of sex. (Author/AM)

Compares two school-based models of ethnic cultural pluralism: the private religio-ethnic model of American Jews and the public-secular-ethnic model of Mexican Americans. Predicts that both will persist for a time, but that public and government discontent regarding financing bilingual/bicultural education might force Chicanos to develop private…

Describes the special problems of the Vietnamese and Soviet Jewish elderly who have recently come to the United States as refugees. Discusses family support systems, loss of esteem, dependency, religion, clustered living circumstances, and civic organizations and volunteerism, all in relation to these populations. (KH)

In a one-week symposium, college students learned about the social psychology of international conflict through a role-play of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The symposium also included lectures and required readings. (RM)

These materials have been designed for teachers in order to help students make more connections in their learning about the Holocaust. Written to enhance and supplement existing units in world history and world literature curricula in a California high school, the following materials have been prepared for the project: small group presentations of…

In compliance with the philosophy of the Yeshivah of Flatbush, the English department is committed to students mastering the secular discipline of English. Students will develop the language skills of reading, writing, and speaking, as well as a sophistication of style and a clarity of expression. Writing is to be developed for academic purposes…

Examines the scope and variety of past demands for community-controlled schools in New York, which were especially visible in the actions of three groups: Irish Catholics in the 1840s; Jews in the period surrounding the turn of the century; Italians in the middle 1930s and early 1940s. (Author/JM)

While the Bedouin children's perceptual exploration might be considered less mature in some ways related to reading, this was not the case with other aspects of perceptual exploration. (DM)

Ethnic relations in Israel between European and non-European Jews and between Jews and non-Jews (predominantly Arabs) is examined using surveys conducted during the period 1966-1968. While the outlook for full integration among Jewish ethnic groups seems favorable, Jewish-Arab relations are developing in an unfavorable direction. (Author/MB)

In spite of separatist efforts to retain a distinctive black culture in America, the blacks, like other racial groups, will ultimately be absorbed into the mainstream of American life. It cannot be otherwise. (JB)

Data from the 1957 Current Popualtion Survey of Religion and from the NORC study of June 1961 college graduates indicate that denominational homogeneity in marriage exists for at least three-quarters of the major religious denominations, including the various groups within Protestantism." (Author/SE)