This book illustrates the myriad of ways in which hurt was created. It presents an integrative picture of relational psychotherapists working analytically, dynamically, and somatically with therapeutic failures.
This book illustrates the myriad of ways in which hurt was created. It presents an integrative picture of relational psychotherapists working analytically, dynamically, and somatically with therapeutic failures.
Our relationship to future generations raises fundamental issues for ethical thought, to which a Christian theological response is both possible and significant. A relationship to future generations is implicitly central to many of today's most public controversies - over environmental protection, genetic research, and the purpose of education, to name but a few; but it has received little explicit or extended consideration. In Living for the Future Rachel Muers argues and seeks to demonstrate that to consider future generations as ethically significant is not simply to extend an existing ethical framework, but to rethink how ethics is done. Doing intergenerationally responsible theology and ethics means paying attention to how people are formed as theological and ethical reasoners (reasoners about the good), how social practices of deliberation about the good are maintained and developed, and how all of this relates to an understanding of the world as the sphere of God's transforming action. In other words, an intergenerationally responsible theological ethics will pay attention to the ethics, and the spirituality, of "ethics" itself. Her account of the ethical relation to future generations centres on three key concepts: "choosing life" (see Deut 30:19); "keeping the sources open"; and "sustaining fruitful contexts". These concepts are developed theologically and in engagement with extra-theological conversations on intergenerational responsibility. She shows how they take up and move beyond concerns expressed in those conversations - for "survival", for the right distribution of resources, and for the maintenance of human values.
Deep comprehension is defined as a learner's ability to demonstrate mastery of knowledge in a given domain through flexible recognition and/or production of multiple representations with equivalence-of-meaning of the concept. English as first language (E1), English as second language (E2) and reading disabled (RD) students attending a multicultural, downtown Toronto college participated. The study was conducted to determine if previous Meaning Equivalence (ME) research findings would be upheld using a college-level sample. Prior findings with E1 and RD university students revealed no significant differences in deep comprehension on ME Tests of language, arithmetic, and algebra. Those students had more difficulty on Q2 statements (statements that meant the same but did not resemble Target statements) and Q3 statements (statements that resembled Target statements but had different meanings), than on Q1 statements (statements that looked like and meant the same as Target statements) and Q4 statements (statements that did not resemble nor mean the same as Target statements). This study also examined comprehension difficulties of E2 students, demographic factors, and strategies to solve the ME Test items. Measures included tests of word recognition, decoding, reading comprehension, and the new ME Test of English Spatial Prepositions. E1 students significantly outscored RD and E2 students on Q2 and Q3 statements. All students scored lower on Q2 and Q3 statements than on T and Q4 statements. This study also examined comprehension difficulties of E2 students, demographic factors, and strategies to solve the ME Test items. Measures included tests of word recognition, decoding, reading comprehension, and the new ME Test of English Spatial Prepositions. E1 students significantly outscored RD and E2 students on Q2 and Q3 statements. All students scored lower on Q2 and Q3 statements than on T and Q4 statements. RD students significantly outscored E2 students on ME Test 2, despite E2 students scoring higher on the word recognition and decoding measures. Females generally outscored males. RD students used more strategies to solve ME Test items than the other students. A new subgroup of E1 students with no significant differences from RD students on any measures was also revealed. Application of this research could result in more effective instruction once instructors understand that students have different levels of reading and comprehension of English spatial prepositions. E2 students have difficulty understanding English syntax, vocabulary, and colloquial expressions. RD students have trouble with vocabulary, auditory processing, and memory for text-based information.
The book shows how minority groups recreate their traditions and employ them as a means to preserve ethnic boundaries, to redefine identity, and to move towards mainstream culture. The result is a variation of ritual syncretism, demonstrating the immigrants’ multiple social locations.
“A pioneering study” of how two languages have coexisted in the Jewish state, with “a wealth of information” on Yiddish newspapers, theater, and more (AJS Review). Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Rachel Rojanski tells the compelling unknown story of how Yiddish, the most widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. Following Yiddish in Israel from the proclamation of the State until today, Rojanski reveals that although Israeli leadership made promoting Hebrew a high priority, it did not have a definite policy on Yiddish. The language’s varying fortune through the years was shaped by social and political developments, as well as the cultural atmosphere in Israel. Public perception of the language and its culture, the rise of identity politics, and political and financial interests all played a part. Using a wide range of archival sources, newspapers, and Yiddish literature, Rojanski follows the Israeli Yiddish scene through the history of the Yiddish press, Yiddish theater, early Israeli Yiddish literature, and high Yiddish culture. With compassion, she explores the tensions during Israel’s early years between Yiddish writers and activists and Israel’s leaders, most of whom were themselves Eastern European Jews balancing their love of Yiddish with their desire to promote Hebrew. Finally Rojanski follows Yiddish into the twenty-first century, telling the story of the revived interest in Yiddish among Israeli-born children of Holocaust survivors as they return to the language of their parents.
A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism Finalist, 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards in Biography * A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick "A lucid portrait of Friedan as a bold yet flawed advocate for women's equality."--Publishers Weekly The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society's restrictions from a young age. As a journalist she covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism. As a wife and mother, she struggled to balance her work and homemaking. Her malaise as a housewife and her research into the feelings of other women resulted in The Feminine Mystique (1963), which made her a celebrity. Using her influence, Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, universal childcare, and workplace protections for mothers, but she disagreed with the women's liberation movement over "sexual politics." Her volatility and public conflicts fractured key relationships. Shteir considers how Friedan's Judaism was essential to her feminism, presenting a new Friedan for a new era.
The Unknown History of Jewish Women—On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their absence from the Jewish Hebrew library of the "People of the Book" and interprets their social condition in relation to their imposed ignorance and exclusion from public literacy. The book begins with a chapter on communal education for Jewish boys, which was compulsory and free of charge for the first ten years in all traditional Jewish communities. The discussion continues with the striking absence of any communal Jewish education for girls until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the implications of this fact for twentieth-century immigration to Israel (1949-1959) The following chapters discuss the social, cultural and legal contexts of this reality of female illiteracy in the Jewish community—a community that placed a supreme value on male education. The discussion focuses on the patriarchal order and the postulations, rules, norms, sanctions and mythologies that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, laid the religious foundations of this discriminatory reality.
Ancient Synagogues - Archaeology and Art. New Discoveries and Current Research presents archaeological evidence - the architecture, art, Jewish symbols, zodiac, biblical tales, inscriptions, and coins – which attest to the importance of the synagogue. When considered as a whole, all these pieces of evidence confirm the centrality of the synagogue institution in the life of the Jewish communities all through Israel and in the Diaspora. Most importantly, the synagogue and its art and architecture played a powerful role in the preservation of the fundamental beliefs, customs, and traditions of the Jewish people following the destruction of the Second Temple and the loss of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. The book also includes a supplement of the report on the Qazion excavation.
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