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The Relationship of Jewish Community Contexts and Jewish Identity: A 22-Community Study

Contemporary Jewry, 2012
This paper explores the manner in which Jewish community contexts relate to Jewish identity. We employ the Decade 2000 Data Set that contains almost 20,000 randomly selected Jewish households from 22 American Jewish communities interviewed from 2000 to 2010.
Harriet Hartman, Ira M Sheskin, Hartman Harriet   +2 more
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Jewish Schools, Jewish Communities

2009
This introductory chapter discusses the growing social significance of Jewish day-school education within the context of the Jewish community. It looks more broadly at the developments within a relationship between school and community. Such questions provided the context and motivation for an international conference held in June 2006 at the Melton ...
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The Jewish Community

2020
Abstract This chapter introduces Jewish approaches to divine guidance. Corinth was a leading community of the Jewish diaspora and maintained close connections with Jews elsewhere, especially in Jerusalem and Rome. There was a variety of “Judaisms” in this period, but their common focus was on the written Torah and the oral tradition of ...
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Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities

2009
About 350,000 Jewish children are currently enrolled in Jewish day schools, in every continent other than Antarctica. This is the first book-length consideration of life in such schools and of their relationship both to the Jewish community and to society as a whole.
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Barriers to organ donation in the Jewish community

Journal of Transplant Coordination, 1998
It has long been recognized that members of the Jewish community generally do not sign organ donor cards or consent to the donation of the organs of their family members. In order to address this issue, the position of Jewish law on organ donation was examined and a sample of the Jewish population of Toronto was surveyed in an attempt to better ...
J, Feld, P, Sherbin, E, Cole
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The Jewish Community

1971
The Jews in Surinam are the only group of white colonists to have settled there long before Emancipation and to have maintained their identity as a separate group. There were probably Jews in Surinam even before Lord Parham first came to settle there.163 In 1652 a number of Jews entered the country with Parham and in 1666 a new group under David (Cohen)
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Bioethics and the Contemporary Jewish Community

The Hastings Center Report, 1990
David Novak takes up the methodological issue of how substantive religious perspectives can be communicated in a pluralistic society. Novak notes that while "secularism" was historically welcomed by the Jewish community, Jewish thinkers now likewise face the challenge of speaking out of a tradition to a secular audience.
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Jewish Communities, Jewish Education and Quebec Nationalism

Social Compass, 1984
La relation entre nationalisme et judaïsme n'est pas statique. Les nationalismes canadien et québécois ont traversé une période de changement et se sont orientés vers des conceptions opposées à propos de leur statut de minorité.
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Jewish Americans: Three Generations in a Jewish Community.

International Migration Review, 1969
Eckard V. Toy Jr., Sidney Goldstein, Calvin Goldscheider   +2 more
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