Most current religious measures have been geared toward Christian populations while few tools have been developed for Orthodox Jews. The Comprehensive Religiosity Scale of Orthodox Judaism (CRS-OJ) is a 76-item assessment tool that was created to be the first multi-dimensional s…
Chizuk Amuno (strengthening of faith) Congregation was established in Baltimore in 1871 as a traditional, Orthodox Jewish synagogue in reaction to the introduction of reforms in the ritual practices of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. Initially, Chizuk Amuno adopted a hard-lin…
In Israel, a country with one of the highest birthrates in the western world and a religious-secular divide, Israeli Jewish midwives conduct the majority of deliveries for different groups of Jews as well as other cultures. The purposes of this first descriptive intra-cultural s…
While there are a plethora of factors that contribute to the spiritual/religious development of individuals during their high school years, the Study sought to investigate what modern Orthodox students found to be spiritually/religiously inspirational in an effort to improve the…
The Summer Treatment Program (STP) is an 8-week, research-based, behavior modification approach utilizing a unique point system that has been shown to improve the noncompliant behavior of children in a day camp setting. Due to religious reasons, the children of the Orthodox Jewi…