With over 60 years of war and terrorism related to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, it is understandably difficult for present-day Jewish-Israeli adolescents and Palestinian adolescents in both Israel and the West Bank to imagine a peaceful future. The Artsbridge Institute …
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This dissertation traces the little known pre- and early history of television in Israel. Informed by original, primary research that includes official records, correspondence, government minutes, newspaper articles, and other archival materials, it accounts for the public, indu…
This dissertation examines a period in recent Israeli history, when Jerusalem's King David Hotel was bustling, and hordes of tourists and locals flocked to the Old City. A moment on the eve of the new millennium, when visions of Christian pilgrims and other anticipated visitors …
School psychologists in Israel have recently been mandated to become more involved in the assessment of preschool children. At the present time, no standardized developmental screening test for preschool children exists in Israel. The purpose of this study was to validate and ev…
This dissertation investigates how the Israeli state educational system reproduces and transforms the social structure of that country by reinforcing, modifying, and blurring ethnic, class, and gender hierarchies. Specifically, this project examines how the social inequalities o…
Many founding teachers of new schools are motivated by their desire to educate in unconventional ways. They tend to be idealistic and dedicated, and to devote themselves totally to the mission of pioneering their educational enterprise, especially in the early years. However, as…
The language of Sephardic Jews for centuries, Judeo-Spanish is no longer transmitted to younger generations. After decades of discouraging the use of languages other than Hebrew, the Israeli government has changed its stance toward minority Jewish languages and now actively enco…
During the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of young Israelis, after completing their military service, journeyed to South America or Asia. These journeys become a common pattern in Israel, and the travelers are known as backpackers. This study examines the phenomenon in …
The present study examined the roles of guilt and ethnic identity in acculturation and adaptation among 97 Israeli immigrants residing in the U.S. A guilt measure, constructed for this study, revealed five factors associated with guilt for leaving the home country. Bi-dimensiona…
This is an ethnographic study of the lives of four generations of Palestinian refugees at Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem. The struggle began when Palestinians were exiled from their village home in 1948 and, since that time, have been forced to organize against the Israelis as a m…
This study's purpose is to investigate the experience of motherhood for Israeli mothers who have been raising their children in the United States. Its aim is to answer the question: How does the experience of becoming a parent in the United States impact Israeli immigrant mother…
This study examined the effects of country and two levels of religious observance on anger experience and expression in American and Israeli Jews. The sample included Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews in the United States and in Israel. Four hundred and six participants were includ…
Everyone in Israel wants peace yet it remains an elusive goal. Fieldwork was conducted with Jewish Israeli women and women who are Palestinian citizens of Israel to access their perspectives regarding issues related to peace in Israel, including national unity, security and iden…
This dissertation examines food practices as a cultural manifestation of Jewish nationalism within the Zionist movement and in the state of Israel from the First Aliya (immigration) in 1905 to the Six Day War in 1967. The Zionist movement and later the Israeli state tried to int…
The direct and indirect links among parents' marital quality, parenting styles, and their children's adjustment when children's emotional security serve as a moderator were examined across 2 cultures: Israel and the US. 80 Israeli children and 101 American children in kindergart…
This study explores the motifs of place, landscape, earth (territory), and nationality in Israeli art from the 1920s to the 1970s, when the approach to these topics underwent a paradigm crisis with the emergence of Environmental and Earth Art. These motifs are reexamined in the …
Educational research emphasizes the importance of the family's role in the child's educational process. Jewish tradition grants the family a dominant role in passing on Jewish heritage from generation to generation. For Jewish schools to enhance school achievement and teach valu…
Much of the research literature on school violence has focused narrowly on individual characteristics of troubled youth, without careful examination of contextual factors that might influence violence and victimization in school settings. This dissertation examines issues of sch…
The purpose of this study was to explore the process of collective-national identity development and related social psychological factors among Palestinian students in the Israeli universities with reference to the degree of their involvement in student activism (high, moderate …