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Marriage Story 2019
A stage director and an actor struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
A stage director and an actor struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy.
Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Her last date with disaster? That of having accepted to work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.
Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
Princess Jasmine grows tired of being forced to remain in the palace, so she sneaks out into the marketplace, in disguise, where she meets street-urchin Aladdin. The couple falls in love, although Jasmine may only marry a prince. After being thrown in jail, Aladdin becomes embroiled in a plot to find a mysterious lamp, with which the evil Jafar hopes to rule the land.
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Jess, a bellboy working at The Manila Hotel, is gifted an all-expenses paid stay at the hotel's most expensive suite. And during his stay, he encounters Veronica, a professional golddigger. Jess keeps up the illusion of being a rich guest of the hotel, hoping to get Veronica to fall in love with him before he has to tell her the truth.
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
Kat is an aspiring singer-songwriter who dreams of making it big. However, her dreams are stalled by her reality: a conniving and cruel stepfamily and a demoralizing job working as a singing elf at billionaire Terrence Wintergarden's Santa Land.
An exploration of America's social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a traffic stop. They kill the police officer in self-defense and rather than turn themselves in, they go on the run.
Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the mask, Ipkiss becomes a supernatural playboy exuding charm and confidence which allows him to catch the eye of local nightclub singer Tina Carlyle. Unfortunately, under the mask's influence, Ipkiss also robs a bank, which angers junior crime lord Dorian Tyrell, whose goons get blamed for the heist.
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Christmas brings the ultimate gift to Aldovia: a royal baby. But first, Queen Amber must help her family and kingdom by finding a missing peace treaty.
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
When Marla's dog runs away on Christmas Eve, she must team up with her ex-boyfriend Max to find him. As the pup leads the exes on an all-day-and-night search through their North Carolina hometown, they revisit people, places and things that remind them of the Christmas pasts they spent together.


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Interfaith Families Study Points Way to Increased Engagement, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, November 27, 2019
The Chuppah Advantage, Tablet Magazine, November 12, 2019
Looking ahead, with the Community Study as our Guide, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, November 6, 2019
Gevalt: The American Jewish Population is Expanding! Leonard Saxe, eJewish Philanthropy, October 4, 2019
Beyond Welcoming? Not so Fast, Edmund Case, ejewishphilanthropy, August 13, 2019
Is Intermarriage Really the Demise of Jews in America? Leonard Saxe, Jerusalem Post, August 7, 2019
Meet the Korean-American woman who leads the Jewish Renewal movement, JTA, April 16, 2019
Are young Jewish voters ready to say enough with the Democrats? Jewish News Syndicate, April 8, 2019
'Jexodus' is a GOP fantasy. That doesn't mean Jews will vote Democratic forever. Matthew Boxer, Washington Post, March 22, 2019
Jewish Women's Fund of Atlanta Studies Women's and Girls' Needs, Atlanta Jewish Times, March 6, 2019
Moving Beyond Flashpoints, The New York Jewish Week, December 26, 2018
Young American Jews walked off their Birthright tour of Israel. The protest sparked a debate at home, Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2018
Interfaith Families Increasingly Jewish, The New York Jewish Week, November 21, 2018
Are Jewish Grandparents a Forgotten Population? Atlanta Jewish Times, November 7, 2018
Study Shows Growth among Young Jewish Families in South Palm Beach County, The Sun Sentinel, November 6, 2018
Small-Town Jews Are Used to Locked Synagogues, The Atlantic, November 2, 2018
Pittsburgh's Lesson: Hatred Does Not Emerge in a Vacuum, Leonard Saxe, The Conversation, October 30, 2018
The Pew Study, Five Years Later – Leonard Saxe, Judaism Unbound, October 18, 2018
The Vanishing Ivy League Jew, Tablet Magazine, October 15, 2018
Longtime Boston Federation President Barry Shrage Looks Back, Forges Ahead, JNS, August 24, 2018
Why Jewish Giving to Israel is Losing Ground, Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim, The Conversation, August 15, 2018
Religion Looms Large for Education Official in Charge of Civil Rights, The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2018
Don't Dismiss Steven Cohen's Research, Michelle Shain, The NY Jewish Week, July 25, 2018
Gay and African-American Rabbi Wants to Shatter Stereotypes of What a Jew Looks Like, JTA, July 17, 2018
Surveys Explore Jewish Life in South Florida, With Some Surprising Results, South Florida Sun Sentinel, June 1, 2018
How Many Jewish Undergraduates? Leonard Saxe, Michelle Shain, Graham Wright and Shahar Hecht, ejewishphilanthropy, May 22, 2018
Squirrel Hill Faces a Challenge: Can Residents Afford to Live There? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 8, 2018
Jewish Community Studies with Matthew Boxer, Jewish History Matters Podcast, April 22, 2018
Our Favorite Places to Get Jewish and Israeli Food in Seattle, The Stranger, March 28, 2018
Barry Shrage, renowned leader in Jewish community life, to join Brandeis, Brandeis NOW, March 21, 2018
ADL Says Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Students Disagree, The Forward (Opinion), March 5, 2018
Study Finds Millennials Charting Their Own Course, Washington Jewish Week, February 28, 2018
A Leading Indicator: Celebrate the Growth of Region's Jewish Community, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 25, 2018
Palm Beach Federations Exploring Future of Jewish Families, Community, Sun Sentinel, February 22, 2018
What Can a Demographic Story Tell Us, Washington Jewish Week, February 22, 2018
Report: Pittsburgh Jewish Community Growing, Spreading Out, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 20. 2018
Pittsburgh Region's Jewish Population is Growing, Prosperous and Moving to Suburbs, Study Finds, TribLive, February 20, 2018
Only 6 Percent of Washington DC's Booming Jewish Community Identify as Republican, JTA, February 16, 2018
Jobs And Inclusivity: Why The Jewish Population In D.C. Is Now The Third-Largest In The Country, WAMU, February 16, 2018
D.C. Area's Jewish Population is Booming: Now the Third Largest in the Nation, report says, The Washington Post, February 13, 2018
D.C.'s Jewish Population Is Booming-So Why The Empty Pews? The Forward, February 13, 2018
Dueling Narratives Cloud Picture Of Campus Anti-Semitism, The New York Jewish Week, January 10, 2018
Support for Anti-Israel BDS Movement 'Virtually Nonexistent' Among College Students, Study Finds, PJ Media, January 4, 2018
Surprise! Jewish Students *Still* Aren't Scared on Campus, The Jewish News of Northern California, December 28, 2017
Has Birthright Been Successful? The Forward, Leonard Saxe, December 21, 2017
Survey Finds Students Do Not Support Academic Boycotts of Israel, The Washington Free Beacon, December 21, 2017
What Anti-Semitism On Campus?, The New York Jewish Week, December 18, 2017
Few College Students Want to Boycott Israel, Study of Four Campuses Finds, JTA, December 18, 2017
Anti-Semitism Rare But Anti-Israel Talk Common On Elite Campuses, Study Finds, The Forward, December 14, 2017
Neither Fact nor Fallacy, ejewishphilanthropy, Leonard Saxe and Fern Chertok, September 19, 2017
The One Weird Thing That Birthright And JVP Have In Common, The Forward, September 6, 2017
Are The College Years Too Late For Israel Education?, The New York Jewish Week, August 16, 2017
Some Birthright Participants Fall In Love With Israel, And a Mate, Jerusalem Post, August 6, 2017
Quietly Going Its Own Way, JNF Cuts Off Its Israeli Parent, The Forward, August 3, 2017
'We're Headed Toward One of the Greatest Divisions in the History of the Jewish People,' The Atlantic, July 16, 2017
Suspending the Western Wall Compromise and the Bill on Non-Orthodox Conversion: Implications for the Philanthropy of North American Jewry Toward Israel, Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim and Prof. Hillel Schmid, ejewishphilanthropy, July 3, 2017
'Vast majority' of Jewish students are connected to Israel, insists Brandeis prof, Times of Israel, June 28, 2017
Leading Researcher on Campus Jewish Life Rejects Report of 'Devastating Loss' of Support for Israel Among Young Jews, Algemeiner, June 23,2017
Letter From Dahlonega, Moment Magazine, May 24, 2017
Current Research, Religion Watch, Volume 32 No. 7, May 2017
Which States Had The Fewest Anti-Semitic Incidents? The Answer May Surprise You, The Forward, April 27, 2017
To Officiate Or Not at Intermarriages, The NY Jewish Week, March 15, 2017
How I Moved From Chicago to Nashville—And Found My Jewish Soul in a Red State, The Forward, February 16, 2017
To Say 'Never Again,' First Remember, US News and World Report, January 31, 2017
Recent Research Publications
Points of Entry: Interfaith Families in Pittsburgh
November 2019
This qualitative study describes the experiences and perspectives of members of the burgeoning population of interfaith couples in the Greater Pittsburgh area. The study focused on interfaith households including those that are and are not involved in home-based or communal Jewish life.
Politics on the Quad: Students Report on Division and Disagreement at Five US Universities
November 2019
Drawing on survey data collected from representative samples of undergraduates at five US universities, we explore the political climate on the college campus. How divided are liberal, moderate, and conservative students at each of these five schools with respect to their political attitudes, their perceptions of the campus environment, and their place within the campus community? How does the magnitude and nature of these divisions differ from one campus to the next?
The Summer Institute for Israel Studies: 2018 Annual Survey
October 2019
This report represents the 14th year of our on-going evaluation of the Summer Institute for Israel Studies (a project of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies). The Institute seeks to make the study of Israel an ongoing component of the curriculum of higher education. Fellows from the 2004-2017 cohorts were surveyed about their research, teaching, and use of SIIS resources in the academic year 2017-18.
2019 Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Community Study
November 2019
The 2019 Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Community Study provides a detailed socio-demographic portrait of the regional Jewish community and describes community members' participation in Jewish communal life, their private Jewish activities, and their attitudes about Judaism and Israel.
American Jewish Population Estimates 2019: Summary and Highlights
October 2019
This data brief summarizes our 2019 estimates of the US Jewish population and describes our data and methodology.
Israel, Politics, and Birthright Israel: Findings from the Summer 2017 Cohort
August 2019
This report assesses Birthright's effectiveness in providing a balanced educational program to participants from diverse backgrounds. The report examines Birthright's impact on the summer 2017 cohort's feelings of connection to Israel, engagement with Israel, and views regarding particular Israeli policies and investigates whether the program's impact was different for political liberals versus conservatives.
Birthright's Impact on Five Jewish Identity Groups: Findings from the Summer 2018 Cohort
August 2019
By examining response patterns to questions about Jewish attitudes, the study identified five different types of Jewish identity among the young adults who applied to go on a Birthright trip in summer 2018: Ancestry, Secular Peoplehood, Casual Religious, Connected, and Committed. After sorting applicants into groups corresponding to their Jewish identity type, the study examined the ways in which participants in the different groups were impacted by their Birthright experience.
We'll Cross That Bridge When We Get To It: Life Stages and the Needs of Interfaith Couples in Greater Boston
August 2019
This qualitative study describes some of the experiences and perspectives of the burgeoning population of interfaith couples in the Greater Boston community and focuses in particular on households with little involvement in home-based or communal Jewish life.
Beyond Welcoming: Engaging Intermarried Couples in Jewish Life
August 2019
"Beyond Welcoming" is the first large-scale study of the marriages and committed relationships of Gen X and millennial Jews, and the first to systematically collect data from non-Jewish partners about their backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. The study was designed with the goal of understanding which programs and policy initiatives would best serve the Jewish community in an era where intermarriage is pervasive and young adults in the United States are distancing themselves from religion and religious institutions.
The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel on Participants from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Germany
June 2019
This study focuses on two groups of Birthright Israel participants: first, those from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus and second, Russian-speaking Jews (RSJ) in Germany. It is part of a larger program of research designed to understand the impact of Birthright Israel (known in the FSU and Germany as Taglit) on its participants. The study draws on pre- and post-trip surveys of the summer 2017 cohort from these countries, as well as on a long-term survey of participants from Russia and Ukraine who participated in the program during 2010-14.
2018 Greater Palm Beaches Jewish Community Study
May 2019
Conducted on behalf of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, the 2018 Greater Palm Beaches Jewish Community Study estimates the size of the Jewish community, describes its demographic characteristics, and examines its attitudes toward community institutions, programs, and services. The report also creates a portrait of the multifaceted cultural, communal, and religious expressions of Judaism that constitute Jewish engagement.
Innovating JCCs
May 2019
The purpose of the Innovating JCCs study was to seek out new ideas in the field and identify ways that Jewish community centers can shift from the traditional model to become successful 21st century agencies. Lessons from the research are relevant not only to JCCs but also to synagogues and other legacy institutions in the Jewish community.
Race, Community, and Belonging: Revisiting Student Concerns at Brandeis University
February 2019
This report is part of our program of research on ethnic and religious identity among US college students. The report follows up an earlier survey of the Brandeis campus in 2016. Repeating the survey in 2018 allowed us to examine the ways in which campus environments and intergroup relations change over time and and determine whether the same issues continued to dominate campus conversation.
2018 South Palm Beach County Jewish Community Study
November 2018
Conducted on behalf of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, the 2018 South Palm Beach County Jewish Community Study was developed to help communal leaders, planners, and residents better understand the size and character of their community. Interviews with over 2,100 Jewish households residing in South Palm Beach County form the basis of the report.
Building Jewish Pride Through Sports: An Evaluation of the Impact of Competing in the World Maccabiah Games
November 2018
The Maccabiah Games attract thousands of Jewish athletes from around the world to Israel every four years. As part of the Maccabiah experience, Maccabi USA organizes a seven day educational-cultural travel program in Israel for US athletes prior to the athletic competition. Called "Israel Connect," this program is designed to strengthen athletes' Jewish identities and instill in them the passion and knowledge necessary to advocate for Israel. This study examines the athletes' reactions to the seven-day program as well as the extent to which the entire Maccabiah experience altered the Jewish trajectories of the US Jewish athletes who participated.
Time for Good in Action: Implementation and Potential Outcomes
December 2017
This report evaluates UJA-Federation of New York's Time for Good/Jewish Service Enterprise Initiative (TFG/JSEI). Designed to build the capacity of communal organizations to productively work with volunteers, the study explores the implementation of this initiative and its initial impact, as perceived by organizations and volunteers from the first two cohorts of participating agencies.
Bringing Educational Technology into Supplementary Jewish Education: Evaluation of ShalomLearning
April 2018
ShalomLearning was launched in 2011 as a supplementary Jewish education curriculum that combines a values-based, spiral curriculum for grades two through seven, with a blended educationapproach that integrates classroom time with offsite online learning. This two-year study of ShalomLearning evaluates the program's implementation and outcomes.
The 2017 Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study
February 2018
The 2017 Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study provides a detailed socio-demographic portrait of the Pittsburgh-area Jewish community and describes community members' participation in Jewish communal life, their private Jewish activities, and their attitudes about Judaism and Israel.
The 2017 Greater Washington Jewish Community Demographic Study
February 2018
The 2017 Greater Washington Jewish Community Demographic Study provides an up-to-date description of the size and character of DC-area Jewish adults, children, and households. Interviews with over 6,600 Jewish households residing in the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia, and Suburban Maryland form the basis of the report.
The Limits of Hostility: Students Report on Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Sentiment at Four US Universities
December 2017
This report is part of a program of research focusing on undergraduates and their perceptions and experiences of antisemitism and anti-Israel hostility on US campuses. The study examines four institutions, Brandeis University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and draws on survey data collected in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years from representative samples of undergraduates (both Jewish and non-Jewish) at these schools.
Beyond 10 days: Parents, Gender, Marriage, and the Long-term Impact of Birthright Israel
December 2017
The report presents findings from the 5th wave of a longitudinal study of several thousand Jewish young adults who applied to Birthright between 2001 and 2009 and includes an analysis of the ways in which Birthright's impact manifests in different subgroups: those with one versus two Jewish parents, those whose sole Israel experience was a Birthright trip, participants who are single versus partnered, and men versus women.
2017 Collier County Jewish Community Study
October 2017
In 2017, the Jewish Federation of Collier County sponsored the first-ever representative sample survey of the Jewish community of Naples, Florida, and the surrounding area. The study includes a population estimate; findings on the demography, ritual behavior, affiliations, volunteer activities, and geographic profile of the population; and descriptions of the various ways community members participate in Jewish life.
The 2015 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study found that young adults make up almost one-quarter of the local Jewish population. This report, based on 50 new interviews with young adults and key informants and reanalysis of the 2015 data, creates a fuller portrait of Jewish young adults living in Cambridge, Somerville, and Jamaica Plain and, in particular, those who are marginally or not at all involved in Jewish life.
The Summer Institute for Israel Studies 2016
April 2017
This report represents the 12th year of our on-going evaluation of the Summer Institute for Israel Studies (a project of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies). The Institute seeks to make the study of Israel an ongoing component of the curriculum of higher education. Researchers observed sessions during the two-week program held at Brandeis University, spoke informally with Fellows, and conducted a survey with the 2004-15 cohorts.
2015 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study
November 2016
The 2015 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study provides an up-to-date description of the size and character of Boston-area Jewry. Included in the study are demographic findings, information on the religious background and geographic profile of Greater Boston's Jewish population as well as descriptions of participation in Jewish life and volunteer activities.
Under the Chuppah: Rabbinic Officiation and Intermarriage
October 2016
This report explores several essential questions about the relationship between Jewish clergy officiation and intermarried couples' trajectories of Jewish engagement. The analyses explore differences between three groups of couples: inmarried couples, intermarried couples who had a sole Jewish officiant (i.e., no non-Jewish co-officiant), and intermarried couples who married under other auspices.
Hotspots of Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Sentiment on US Campuses
October 2016
This report is based on findings from a 2016 survey of Jewish undergraduates at 50 US campuses. Identifying campuses where antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment are especially acute, the study also looks at the particular manifestations of hostility at different campuses and the ways in which these climates influence the lives of Jewish students.
Diversity, Pressure, and Divisions on the University of Pennsylvania Campus
October 2016
This report is the second in a series of reports of select campuses and focuses on the University of Pennsylvania. Based on a survey of both Jewish and non-Jewish students, the study explores the intersection of racial, ethnic, and religious identities, gender, and sexual orientation, intergroup interactions, experiences of discrimination, and feelings of safety and belonging on campus in the context of the larger campus climate.
New US Jewish Population Estimates
Updated September 2016
Since 2005, SSRI researchers have been collecting data from hundreds of nationally representative surveys in order to provide one of the most comprehensive, independent sources of data on the Jewish community in the United States. The latest release from the American Jewish Population Project provides new population estimates for the continental United States, its states, metropolitan areas, and counties and new data on the political identification and political views of Jewish adults.
Israel Face to Face: Evaluation of the Israel Fellows Program
September 2016
This study is an evaluation of the Israel Fellows Program, a program designed to promote engagement with Israel through the placement of young adult Fellows on college campuses. Piloted on six college campuses in 2003, IFP has grown to 75 Fellows serving almost 100 campuses throughout North America.
All Together Separate: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion on the Brandeis Campus
May 2016
This study is part of a program of research focusing on the identities of Jewish students and their experiences of anti-Israel hostility on campuses. Using Brandeis University as a case study, this study takes a broad view and explores a wide range of issues at the intersections of undergraduates' racial, ethnic, and religious identities.
2015 Nashville and Middle Tennessee Jewish Community Study
May 2016
This community study documents a slowly but steadily growing community of Jews. At its core, the Jewish community of Nashville and Middle Tennessee is comprised of a small, tight-knit group of highly involved individuals who participate in many aspects of Jewish life.
Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Touchpoints and Trajectories of Jewish Engagement
October 2015
This study is the first comprehensive assessment to examine the religious upbringing, college experiences, and current attitudes and practices of millennial children of intermarriage, a cohort that currently comprises nearly half of the young adult Jewish population.
The Israel Literacy Measurement Project: 2015 Report
October 2015
The Israel Literacy Measurement Project is an attempt to create a valid and reliable measure of knowledge of Israel. Drawing on definitions of literacy in other social science disciplines and in consultation with subject experts, the research team developed a test bank that can be used with college-aged young adults to assess the extent and content of their Israel-related knowledge.
The Summer Institute for Israel Studies: 2015
October 2015
The Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS) prepares university faculty members to teach about Israel within the frameworks of their own disciplines. To date, the Institute has educated almost 250 college and university faculty members to teach about Israel. In the 11th year of its on-going evaluation of SIIS, CMJS observed sessions during the program, spoke informally with fellows, and conducted a survey with the 2004-14 cohorts regarding the impact of the program on teaching, scholarship, and related activities.
Israel Studies Directory: 2013-14 Report Update
September 2015
To help inform educational opportunities about Israel, CMJS continues to track the development of Israel studies at 316 colleges and universities in the United States. Among other findings, the report documents a13% increase in Israel-focused courses and a 22% increase in Israel-related courses between the years 2008-09 and 2013-14.
Antisemitism on the college campus: Perceptions and realities
July 2015
In the wake of the Israel-Hamas war in summer 2014, US and Canadian college campuses were the settings for many anti-Israel activities, including the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. This study attempts to understand the extent of hostility toward Israel and antisemitism on North American campuses and assess the relationship between these trends and Jewish students' support for and connection to Israel.
Discovering Israel at War: The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel in Summer 2014
February 2015
Nearly 25,000 North American young Jews participated in Taglit-Birthright Israel, just prior and during the 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza. The study assesses participants' experiences and compares their views of Israel to similar others who applied, but did not participate. As previous studies have found, Taglit has powerful effects on participants.
The 2014 Greater Seattle Jewish Community Study
January 2015
The study documents the recent, rapid growth of the Seattle Jewish community and engagement of its members. Seattle is distinguished by having a broad set of communal institutions that engage the population in Jewish life, while also being home to a large number of secular and non-religious Jews.
The Summer Institute for Israel Studies: The First Decade and Looking Ahead
December 2014
Summer 2014 marked the beginning of the second decade of the Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS) that prepares faculty members from around the world to design and teach courses about Israel. The report documents the impact of the program on participants and their teaching about Israel.
Pew's portrait of American Jewry: A reassessment of the assimilation narrative
October 2014
In A. Dashefsky & I. Sheskin (Eds.), American Jewish Year Book 2014 (Vol. 114, pp. 71-81). New York: Springer International Publishing.
Leonard Saxe, Theodore Sasson, Janet Krasner Aronson
The findings of the 2013 Pew Center report, A Portrait of Jewish Americans, have been characterized as documenting the decline of American Jewry. But the study actually shows substantial growth in the size of the Jewish population and considerable stability in engagement with Jewish life. This chapter reassesses our understanding of American Jews.
JEWISH FUTURES PROJECT. The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel: Marriage and Family
September 2014
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Saturday, February 5, 2011
The Chocolate Box
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It looks good enough to eat! Love the rose and chocolate!ReplyDelete
I love brown and pink together. Lovely!ReplyDelete
Lo-cal? I'm in! I love the pink-and-brown pottery. This is just beautiful!ReplyDelete
YUM! Love that combo!ReplyDelete
xoxo Pattie
Great color combo, and a fun cloth, too! You're right, that's the best way to enjoy chocolate and not have guilt! Cute tablescape!ReplyDelete
Happy Foodie Friday and Valentine's Day...
Sheila :-)
GREAT!!! table and I love the napkins. Pink is one of my favorite colors.ReplyDelete
I just found Foodie Friday and am taking a peek at what people post. I love your table setting!ReplyDelete
The brown and pink are perfect together!
I love everything in your table! Great post!ReplyDelete
Wonderful presentation! I love that fabric, I want to make sheets out of it, so that I can sleep in chocolate without all the mess, lol.ReplyDelete
Chocolate lovers, this is your day! Happy Valentines' Day to all of you and thank you for stopping by for just a nibble of the best treat in the world!ReplyDelete
What a unique tablecloth! Love the dishes and the color combination!ReplyDelete
Thanks Katherine .... now I'm craving chocolate!ReplyDelete
Lovin' the pink and brown, what a fun table. Your mom's crystal basket is really cute:@)ReplyDelete
OOh that tablecloth is delish!! Love the pink and brown color combo too. Another great table!ReplyDelete
As always ... way too cute! Thanks for sharing this sweet combination of colors. Pass the chocolate!ReplyDelete
So fun! Love that tablecloth and the ribbon is the perfect touch. Thanks for bringing your wonderful table to Seasonal Sundays.ReplyDelete
- The Tablescaper
Oh my goodness, I'm so glad all you chocolate lovers stopped by! Major sugar overload going on at our house this week. :-)ReplyDelete
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What a fabulous Valentine table, my friend! I love your chocolates tablecloth...adorable! Love the pretty pink and brown color theme too. I love the cut-out plates and the beautiful brown and pink polka dot ribbon that you used! Ohhh...and the crystal basket that was your mother's...ohhh sooo pretty! Such a pretty table, my friend! Thank you so much for sharing it with us for the Sunday Favorites repost party this past weekend!
I do apologize for being so late to get by to see your post...it's just been busy!
Have a wonderful week!
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Hi Chari!ReplyDelete
It's never too late for a bit more chocolate!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope I'll see you tomorrow for the Valentine Party with some of your pretties. :-)
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The publication of stronger-than-expected employment data and the first real evidence of rising wage inflation in the US last month has unsettled the chickens in the market coop
High valuations combined with automated trading programmes only served to accentuate the volatility seen in markets round the world after a long period of calm and steadily rising indices. In fact, rising bond yields in mid-January had already begun to flag up what the figures are confirming: inflation is on its way and interest rates are set to rise in response to the threat.
Inflation may have dipped slightly this month (as measured on a 'year-on-year' basis), but it seems that a whole generation may have forgotten what inflation, that 'thief in the night', really means. After all, it has been a long time since the destructive double-digit inflationary times of the Seventies and early Eighties. But even a fairly modest inflation rate can devastate your purchasing power. For example, consider a basket of household goods costing £10 in 1974; to purchase the same goods today you would need £108 in your wallet. Or in percentage growth terms, your money would have had to have grown at an average of 5.5% a year just to keep pace with inflation.
Another easy way of working it out is to divide the inflation rate into 72. The answer will show you the number of years it takes to halve the 'real' - or purchasing power - of your money. So, if inflation were to double from its current 3% to 6% p.a., you would lose half your spending power in twelve years – a sobering thought.
As regards investment portfolios, inflation acts as drag on both shares and bonds and pulls in the opposite direction to the benefits of compounding growth. For example, the benchmark 10-year Treasury gilt has provided 4% real returns when inflation is in decline but a small negative real return when it is increasing.
So what can an investor do to combat the corrosive effects of inflation? If rising inflation is, in effect, a reflection of rising demand in an economy, then things like commodities and natural resources tend to respond with rising prices and therefore those that produce them with rising profits. Property stocks tend to do well in an inflationary environment, too, as rising rents feed rising share values. Infrastructure funds should also do well in these times because often the underlying contracts are index-linked and so the income paid out in return for the supply of the infrastructure asset will rise with inflation. Similarly, index-linked bonds can help insure a portfolio against the ravages of inflation. But it is worth bearing in mind that if inflation remains subdued, then these type of assets will underperform. So it is important to get the balance right.
At Church House, where clients value real capital preservation high among their investment priorities, we have been quietly building inflation protection into the funds that form the core building-blocks of their portfolios. For example, our core bond fund (CH Investment Grade Fixed Income) now has over 30% exposure to Floating-Rate Notes (FRNs), specialist institutional instruments whose pay-rate is re-set every three months and which will therefore benefit as rates rise.
Similarly, the Tenax Absolute Return Strategies fund has a significant exposure to infrastructure funds which provide a good hedge against rising inflation. Some equities also do well in certain inflationary environments, especially those related to constant consumer demand (consumer staples), financials, energy stocks and so forth. We tend to avoid gold in all environments because of the opportunity cost of holding it and the basic lack of an income yield. There are many who will cite gold as a good hedge against inflation and it is true that gold has usually risen in value as some investors will always flee for the seeming solidity of this safe-haven asset. We just prefer holding something that at least pays our clients something to hold it, whether a dividend or an interest coupon.
The worst asset to hold in inflationary times is cash. Even during the last ten years when we have been living in and out of a deflationary environment, cash held on deposit offering virtually zero interest, has lost nearly 30% of its purchasing power. And that is before you factor in its fall against other currencies, especially after the Brexit vote of 2016. At Church House, we always advise maintaining a contingency fund in cash to avoid the need to raid a portfolio at inopportune times in the market cycle. But the opportunity cost of holding too much cash – offering a negative real rate of return because of crushingly low yields offered on deposit – is still at the worst levels seen since financial crash of 2008/09.


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Eshleman on Medusa
by Johannes Goransson on Jul.20, 2011
[This is a piece Clayton Eshleman wrote in 1998. It will be part of the collection of essays, The Price of Experience, that Black Widow Press will put out in early 2012.]
The Greek iconography of the Medusa's face includes "bulging or glaring eyes, gnashing tusks, a protruding tongue, and snake-like hair." In some versions, she also has "grossly foliated skin, the absence of corners in her mouth, and single or multiple dots on her forehead" (1). This syncretic image is, I suspect, only the surface of a palimpsest with earliest scratches in the Upper Paleolithic (thus from this viewpoint, the Perseus story is a late addition). Here are some hunches and sightings about the construction of the Medusa's lethal face.
It is possible to imagine the snakes encircling the face as the winding corridors of a cave, and the tusks or fangs, in the center of the face, as the ghosts of those dreadful encounters where in total blackness and at times far from the cave entrance, a human met a huge cave bear or cave lion.
To set a fanged beast mouth into a woman's face is to associate women with "predation." Barbara Ehrenreich argues that Cro-Magnon women probably participated in "drives" of big game animals, and acted as butchers and bearers once the animals had been slaughtered (2). In this regard, the Spartan name for Artemis (who may have originally been a bear or lioness, and of Upper Paleolithic antiquity) is Artamis, meaning "cutter" or "butcher." (3)
While most Upper Paleolithic hybrids are male (with bison or bird heads), there is a lion-headed 30,000 year old statuette from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, that is probably female (the genitals are difficult to identify, but there is clearly no phallus). At this point in time, the animal had only been partially differentiated from the human image (the Greek Medusa subordinates animal parts to a basically human head). The dots on the Medusa foreheads may indicate the lion's superciliary tufts of hair above the eyes.
Another link between women and hunting predation may have involved menstruation. There was probably no way to camouflage bloody discharges as there is today. It is also believed that prehistoric women synchronized their periods which also closely matched the 29.5 day cycle of the moon. According to Ehrenreich, "it may have seemed that women's cycles control the moon, or else that the divine presence that is the moon expresses itself through the bodies of human females." (4)
Thus the Medusa's fanged face may also contain a bleeding vagina, suggesting an origin for the superstition of the "vagina dentata." On a vulvar level, the snakes evoke pubic hair encircling a site of possible castration in which a phallus has been replaced by the fangs responsible for the rending. I also think of an octopus here, with its snake-like tentacles encircling a powerfully-beaked mouth (the Medusa and her sisters were said to reside on the shores of Oceanus).
Another explanation for the Medusa's snakes is to be found in Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove's The Wise Wound:
A.P.H. Scott points out that during an eclipse of the sun, during which the
menstruation of women was thought by Pliny to be particularly dangerous),
the moon's shadow rushing towards you across the land ripples with the
refractions of the earth's atmosphere like snakes. The solar corona can also
be observed wriggling like a crown of snakes round the moon's shadow,
if you use smoked glass. However, we have also seen that it is a common
cultural image of menstruation that a woman is bitten by a snake-god who
comes from the moon. The moon sloughs herself and renews, just as the
snake sheds its skin. (5)
A Cro-Magnon child's terror at seeing not only its hunter-mother's bloody hands but also her bloody vagina circulates upward through the centuries to become a snake-wreathed slaughterface, impacted with holy dread—as if the gate of life were revealed to contain a carnivore mouth.
1. A. David Napier, Masks, Transformation, and Paradox, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986. See chapter 4, "Perseus and the Gorgon Head."
2. Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites, Metropolitan Books, NYC, 1997. See chapter 6, "When the Predator Had a Woman's Face."
3. Barbara G. Walker, The Woan's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper & Row, NYC, 1983. See the entry for "Artemis."
4. Ehrenreich, p. 105.
5. Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove, The Wise Wound, Penguin Books, London, 1978, pp. 263-264.
Joyelle McSweeney
July 20th, 2011 on 3:00 pm
Clayton,a concise and proliferative piece, and I love the summation of bristling and spasming language at the end– "snake-wreathed slaughterface."
I wonder if you could clarify, in this model, why would only women's genitalia/bloody hands be frightening? What makes the women's body more frightening than a man's? Or is the notion that fear of man's body/bloodiness is siphoned into the other hybrids, and this particular hybrid is a receptacle for fear of the woman?
Thanks for your insights,
Clayton Eshleman
July 20th, 2011 on 6:20 pm
Joyelle: Women's bloodiness may have been frightening because of the association of predation (if indeed women were directly involved with hunting and slaughter)with the missing penis/vagina dentata in that fantasy. There are a jumble of confusions here, brought home monthly by menstruation.
Given the complex of predation/vagina dentata/menstruation, it might have been very hard for a Cro-Magnon child to clear that "debris" away from that place through which he emerged into the world.
The Redgrove/Shuttle book, published in 1979 when there was virtually nothing on menstruation mythology, is terrific, and reading it can open the gate to the poetry of Peter Redgrove, in my opinion one of the most unusual and imaginative 20th century poets.
Judy Grahn's Blood, Bread and Roses is also quite engaging. –CE
Laura Carter
July 21st, 2011 on 2:12 am
The Price of Experience is a great title for a collection including this set of ruminations…. Thanks for posting! I'll look for it.
Josef Horáček
July 21st, 2011 on 6:55 am
Love the connection from the Cro-Magnon to the Greek, Clayton. Can't wait to read more.
Question: If the Cro-Magnon child had seen all the women around her menstruate since a wee age, how would that be any more frightening than, say, seeing them chew on their mammoth carpaccio?
adam strauss
July 21st, 2011 on 5:04 pm
I love this question!:
" If the Cro-Magnon child had seen all the women around her menstruate since a wee age, how would that be any more frightening than, say, seeing them chew on their mammoth carpaccio?"
Did cro magnum have speech in the human sense, or more a lexicon of "grunts"?
Too, I'm with Joyelle–"snake-wreathed slaughterface" is rockin'!
I love G Davenport's proposal that Picasso is cro-magnum; if anyone here hasn't read his story Robot–oh do!


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Coming to the squad, I have to say, I'm not a fan of Yuvraj being left out, fair enough he's not been at his best since his comeback but seriously, dude almost ALWAYS performs in ICC events, he's too big a match winner to leave out on a major ODI tourney. I don't mind Dhawan instead of GG in the openers slot, lol @ Vijay in ODIs. No Rahane OR Pujara? Seriously wtf
Rohit Sharma opening LOL, a couple of decent IPL knocks and suddenly he's back in the squad <_<
I personally don't have many complaints as far as the bowling goes, Irfan adds a lot of balance to the team along with Jadeja and Ashwin, Yadav is very hit or miss in ODI's, but I don't mind giving him a chance, he's a wicket taking bowler and I feel he's capable of making an impact, Bhuvi should hopefully do well. I'm still worried about Ishant, I just don't think he's good enough.


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Choices or Echoes?
After spending eight years implementing spendthrift domestic policies and destabilizing foreign policies, the Republican Party finds itself on the outside looking in. GOP leaders are seeking to refashion their domestic agenda. But they have yet to acknowledge the need for an international overhaul as well.
Defeat is hard. In the last two elections Republicans have lost the presidency, control of the House and even a filibuster-capable minority in the Senate. It is an electoral catastrophe greater than the 1994 Democratic congressional defeat. One has to go back before Ronald Reagan's election to find the GOP in such dire shape.
A number of Republican notables recently began a "listening tour." At least they seem to recognize the need to transform their fiscal and domestic policies. On foreign policy Republicans appear to be stuck on stupid, as the saying goes.
Instead of recognizing that the Bush years resulted in a catastrophic reduction in American security and influence, the GOP appears to have convinced itself that the way back to power is to be the party of war and torture. The Republicans' plight is reflected by the emergence of former–Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the chief architects of the Iraq debacle, as a party spokesman.
It is not only Cheney—wrong about every aspect of the Iraq conflict—who appeals to a fantasy world recognizable by none other than a Bush partisan. There is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a self-styled Churchill hoping to be recalled from political exile.
Gingrich has been promoting the politics of fear. Because of administration actions, he claimed, "the United States is running greater risks of getting attacked than we were under President Bush." The administration's policies reflect "a dangerous fantasy that runs an enormous risk," he continued.
Indeed, Gingrich declared at the AIPAC conference in May: "The threats we are faced with are far more catastrophic than any of our leaders are willing to talk about, and the challenges of unlocking those catastrophes are much harder than any of our leaders have been prepared to talk about." Washington needs to "fix" Pakistan. Iran must not only be denied nuclear weapons, but prevented from funding Hamas and Hezbollah. We must be liberated from the use of Saudi oil. Preventive war is necessary against Iran and North Korea.
"We are on the edge of catastrophic problems," he said, citing two novels about nuclear terrorism he had read. Thus, opined Gingrich: "we need to draw a sharp line that says if you have an evil regime, and you engage in evil things, we are not going to let you fire off weapons which could have catastrophic results—period."
On a recent episode of Meet the Press, Gingrich was equally apocalyptic:
Let me just say, I think people should be afraid. I think the lesson of 1993—the first time they bombed the World Trade Center—was: Fear is probably appropriate. I think the lesson of Khobar Towers—where American service men were killed in Saudi Arabia—was: Fear is probably appropriate. I think the lesson of the two embassy bombings in East Africa was: Fear is probably appropriate. I think the lessons of the Cole being bombed in Yemen was: Fear is probably appropriate.
Moreover, Gingrich argued, President Barack Obama provides a "vivid demonstration of weakness in foreign policy." Other GOP figures, including past and potential future presidential candidate Mitt Romney, have similarly accused the administration of being "weak."
Republicans also have vociferously complained about "cuts" in military spending—that is, a slower rate of increase. Writes William Kristol:
We are skimping on defense spending over the next several years, to the point where such spending will be, by 2016, at its lowest percentage of GDP since before World War II. Is the world really the safest it has been since the 1930s?
All told, contended Gingrich: "The threats around the world are real, they are imminent, and they require use as a nation to have a serious adult conversation about reality."
Yes, let's do so. That's certainly not what the Republican Party is offering these days.
First, the percentage of GDP spent on the military is meaningless. The U.S. economy has grown dramatically over the years—today it is more than five times as large, in real terms and despite the recession, than in 1946. In that year total national-defense outlays, which remained high as the country demobilized after World War II, accounted for 77.3 percent of total federal expenditures and 19.2 percent of GDP. Today military spending consumes "only" 17.3 percent of the budget and 4.8 percent of GDP, yet the actual budget adjusted for inflation is more than one-third larger.
America is now spending 10 percent more, in real terms, on the military than it did on average during the cold war, when the United States faced a hegemonic antagonist. America currently accounts for roughly half of all military spending on earth. That wasn't the case during the 1930s. Or during the cold war. America's international dominance has never been greater. Second, the prospect of an Iranian or North Korean nuclear weapon pales compared to the one-time prospect of a conventional or nuclear war with the Soviet Union. For some four decades the United States confronted the possibility of continent-wide combat in Europe. Fighting could have extended around the world, engulfing China, the Koreas, Japan, Taiwan and more. And any conflict could have escalated into nuclear war—full-blown, massive, catastrophic.
Third, deterrence has a proven record of keeping the peace. Preventive war was proposed against both China and the Soviet Union. U.S. policy makers wisely resisted the temptation, even when America had an overwhelming military advantage. In contrast, one small preventive operation, against Iraq, has wrecked another nation, ensnared America's military and destroyed Washington's reputation.
Fourth, intervention will become more, not less expensive. Indeed, patrolling the globe ensures more terrorism. Gingrich cites the Cole: it was bombed while visiting Yemen on a political mission. The U.S. forces at the Khobar Towers were part of a military deployment in Saudi Arabia. The bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon—which Gingrich does not mention but others, including former–Vice President Cheney, have pointed to—was prompted by a similar intervention in that country's vicious, multisided civil war.
Finally, a militarized national-security state inevitably changes the character of the American Republic—the enormous financial waste of buying unnecessary weapons in a weakened economy; strengthening and expanding the most politicized of American industries; emphasizing secrecy and surveillance and degrading constitutional liberties. There is a serious foreign-policy debate to be had. The Obama administration is no less interventionist than its predecessor—on many issues the difference is more style than substance. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue; all of America's alliances remain; the military continues to expand.
Republicans should offer, in Barry Goldwater's inimitable phrase, "a choice, not an echo." That would be the "humble" foreign policy that candidate George W. Bush talked about in 2000, a foreign policy more appropriate for a republic. Instead, GOP leaders apparently hope to rebuild their party by inflating threats, ignoring costs and disregarding interests. It is a prescription for failure—for the GOP and, more importantly, the nation. If the Republican Party won't do any better, it deserves to be in the minority for a very long time.


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Make no mistake, this Gourmet Food Tour is about eating some fine Tasmanian produce. And not just samples; I mean full-on, meal-sized portions. In fact, when I sorted through the photos to write this article, I was a a bit shocked at the amount of food we'd consumed in one four-hour morning walk. But a stroll with Mary around Hobart includes so much more than just good food.
Gourmet Food Tour: Hobart with Mary
We met Mary McNeill (the founder of Hobart-based Gourmania Food Tours) at the start of the day outside the Tassal Salmon Shop in Salamanca. Mary has travelled extensively and has a wealth of experience in the hospitality industry. She studied Classic Pastry Arts at the prestigious French Culinary Institute in New York and went on to work as a pastry chef in the United States.
Mary, with her American husband, has since returned to Hobart to raise her young son and enjoy the lifestyle. And after some extensive international research, she established her gourmet food tour in 2011. As a proud, sixth-generation Tasmanian, Mary leads her guests around Hobart on a culinary journey that incorporates a great deal of local and historic knowledge.
Walking in Hobart, Gourmania Style
This gourmet food tour winds around the Hobart streets with Mary pointing out features along the way. While there's a busy schedule of eating to maintain, the total walk covers only 3kms (so a fairly comfortable stroll by most standards). Mary is constantly calling ahead to the next venue, keeping everyone to the timetable. It's such a great concept, walking in the door and having the allocated dish brought straight to you!
And what would a gourmet food tour be without the sampling of wines as well? That's also covered in Mary's gourmet food tour, with a visit to Hobart wine and beer retailer, Cool Wine. We were lucky to meet with co-owner and celebrated wine expert Tim Goddard, who shared his thoughts about the wine industry in Tasmania.
Tim is an interesting and amusing bloke. He's travelled the world, and is clearly passionate about his role as a wine judge; but he's not the least bit pretentious.
Mary McNeill: Tasmanian Food Experience
Guests receive a map with each venue marked and a space for tasting notes. I didn't take any notes! I was too busy enjoying the taste of the food and the sights of the city. But the map will come in handy when I want to visit those places again or recommend them to friends. Not all of them require a map, though. The gourmet food tour is a loop circuit starting and finishing at Salamanca, and you visit Victoria Dock for a bite of fish. What could be more "Hobart" than that?
The gourmet food tour is a great experience for "new" locals like us. For international tourists, even more so we'd think.
At the end of the walk around Hobart, we returned to Salamanca. We did some cheese tasting at A Common Ground, and then took a seat at Smolt for a delicious warm salad with potatoes, beans, cauliflower, pine nuts and a really yummy dressing. A final coffee, and we were set to go home… to lay on the couch with our jeans undone! This is one gourmet food tour that delivers on the promise of a journey of indulgent discovery and is well worth the ticket price.
Think Tasmania toured as guests of Mary McNeill on the Gourmania Food Tours Hobart City Tour.


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In conclusion, for any organization to gain market leadership it should be ready to pay the price because such leadership is not served on a silver platter. Therefore, for any organization to be successful it has to employ the above strategies. The above organizations have been successful through the measures they have used to move to that level of success.
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Partial-song Previews, RIP, Please!
For years I've been harping on this, and slowly but surely the tide is turning. All of the streaming song previews on efolkMusic all full-length, complete songs, always have been, always will be. When we started in 1999, I had a stock letter for responding to artists who only wanted preview "clips", 30 or 40 second bites out of songs, for their previews. I never liked them, never wanted them on our website. Try my logic:
If you are a painter, and you want to sell your work, do you show prospective buyers just a corner of the picture, tell them they have to trust you about what they can't see? Does that corner impart the full emotional weight of the art work? Obviously not- if I'm listening to a song, just starting to get "hooked" and it stops, do you think I'm more or less likely to want to continue the relationship than if I heard a complete song?
I think MySpace figured it out pretty quickly, following our lead (don't they all), and all your Reverbnations, etc. now offer full-length previews. The plays an artist gets through these online encounters are filling in – as much as they can- for the paucity of radio play most of us fringe artists receive. You certainly wouldn't want to hear yourself on the radio and have it abruptly cut off after a minute. Wouldn't be much of a sales pitch, now would it?
Take my advice, don't hide your light under a blanket, if you've got something to sing about…


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Besides "Survivor" and the "The Biggest Loser" which I recap on this blog, I've also started watching a few other things. I've already talked about "Wire in the Blood" probably more times than people appreciate, so I won't re-hash anything there. One of my all-time favorites in "The Amazing Race," which I've been watching but I decided not to blog the episode recaps since it usually takes me a week to watch the previous episode.
I've also started watching "Glee" and "Flash Forward."
"Glee" is a cute show. For anyone who hasn't watched it, it's about a high school glee club composed of a politically correct and slightly nerdy group of students led by the Spanish teacher who's trying to bring back the glory days of the club. While the teacher, Will, is a neat character, he's also flawed. He makes mistakes with his students and he seems to ignore the fact that he'd be better off without his wife. Of course I'm rooting for the germaphobe teacher who is cute and quirky. As far as the students go, you have the athlete who is tricked into joining the club but actually realizes that singing is his thing, the overachieving really annoying girl who gets a little bit better by episode 2 (which is as far as I've gotten at press time) and the few as-of-yet-not-important but diverse group of the club.
You also have the "bad guys," which include the cheerleader girlfriend of the singer athlete, the cheerleader coach (I love the actress who plays her), Will's materialistic dingbat wife, and the stereotypical jocks who pick on the "nerdy" kids.
"Glee" is light and fluffy with good music. Sure, I get a little angry about the bad guys, but I suppose that's the point. I'm guessing too that the whole "Celibacy Club" is supposed to be ironic.
The premise of "Flash Forward" is that almost everyone in the world loses consciousness for 2 minutes and 17 seconds and has a memory of the future, specifically April 29, 2010. Some people have really good flash forwards and others have bad ones. Some see nothing, leading them to believe that they'll be dead by that date. This has caused kind of an uproar, and the agency in charge sets up a Mosaic program for everyone to log what they saw while tracking down those they found who didn't go out in those two minutes.
This weekend will be all about catching up on these shows and maybe some other ones that look interesting. If anyone has any TV show suggestions, throw them at me and I'll check them out.


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A Resident's Primer on Breast Density
Are we communicating with our patients clearly about this controversial topic?
July 2015
What Does Current Breast Density Legislation Entail?
In October 2009, Connecticut passed Public Act 09-41, requiring radiologists to communicate breast density information to patients undergoing mammography for both screening and diagnostic mammograms.
Since then, 23 other states have followed suit. The laws vary somewhat in the wording of the notices, but all seek to notify or to disclose breast density information to patients and to encourage further conversation with patients' referring providers.
If the patient has either heterogeneous or extremely dense breast tissue as noted by the interpreting radiologist, a notice is provided to the patient that explains that her mammogram demonstrates that she has dense breast tissue, which could hide small abnormalities. Some state laws also include notice about supplementary screening tests depending on the patient's individual risk factors. Lastly, patients are informed that a report has been given to their referring physician, who can address any questions or concerns.
What Are the Positives of This Legislation?
The legislation itself improves patient care by helping keep them informed of their breast composition and supplemental imaging modalities for further evaluation. Essentially, the power is given to the patient, which we can all agree is something we as physicians ultimately want for our patients. However, simultaneously, we want to provide the correct information so that patients can make the best informed medical decision.
What Are Some Potential Issues?
These potential issues are exactly what makes this a hot button topic. Although I agree that patients should be in control of their medical decisions, I also feel that we as physicians have an obligation to fully inform them of what breast density means and attempt to eradicate any misleading language in the letter that is sent to the patient.
In fact, this is what worries many breast radiologists in terms of breast density legislation: the language. Many primary care providers do not feel comfortable advising patients on screening related to dense breasts. Others do not possess the knowledge to adequately educate their patients on what having dense breasts means, let alone on what additional imaging a patient may need in their particular situation based on their personal profile.
Additionally, medical groups argue that the significance of tissue density is uncertain and that reporting it may needlessly panic women, leading to an avalanche of unnecessary screening examinations and biopsies, ultimately driving up the cost of health care.
An article was released last May in the Annals of Internal Medicine that stated that although increased breast density is a risk factor for developing breast cancer and makes cancer harder to detect because dense tissue can obscure masses, only about one half of women with dense tissue were at such a high risk that they needed additional tests. There is still much uncertainty in regard to how much weight should be placed on a patient's breast density alone when ordering additional imaging and biopsies.
The bottom line is that instead of looking at breast density alone, patients and their doctors must consider other risk factors and tailor decision-making to each patient's risk-factor profile.
How Could Breast Density Legislation Be Improved?
On the referring physician side, it is of the utmost importance that these clinicians receive better education about breast density, which will improve their ability to educate patients. Conversely, perhaps we as radiologists need to be at the forefront to educate these patients? Even adding that the patient may speak directly to the breast radiologist interpreting the mammogram, I think, could be another effective alternative. We need to support our patients in making sound decisions about their breast health.
By Amy K. Patel, MD (@amykpatel), chief resident at the University of Kansas–Wichita and former ACR RFS secretary


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Multi Cultural Day
Multicultural Day On Tuesday the 21st it was multicultural day and we had to dress in clothes from our culture. Most people came in New Zealand clothes even though they had other cultures that they are related to as well. People that were born in New Zealand just wanted to represent New Zealand, because that's the only thing they had. During the day we were with parents that were from Israel, Russia, China and Pakistan. I learned a lot about them all. In the afternoon we had our multicultural assembly, there were Chinese drums, people from Switzerland singing, and many others. When we got back the bell had already rung, that meant time to go home and tell my mum what I did today.
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Development Projects and MCST
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79 development projects in 23 countries around the world, with more than 120,000 beneficiaries
Development Projects
These are some of the Development Projects in our network:
The Ruben Centre, NAIROBI, KENYA
The Ruben Centre provides key community development programmes to one of the largest slums in Nairobi.
Vision: To be a faith-based centre striving for an empowered and just Mukuru community.
Mission: To offer quality education, health, financial and social services to children and families in Mukuru community.
Cluster in WESTERN PROVINCE, ZAMBIA
Centro Hermano Manolo, COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA
El Centro Hermano Manolo (CEHM) es una organización sin fines de lucro, dependiente de la Congregación de Hermanos Cristianos. Acompañamos a chicos menores de 18 años, trabajadores (lustrabotas, carretilleros, vendedores ambulantes) del sector La Cancha.
Misión: El CEHM es una institución que procura que la población de menores, trabajadores de La Cancha, gocen de su niñez rodeada de gente compasiva y liberadora.
Visión: Crear un ambiente comunitario donde los niños y adolescentes trabajadores, menores de dieciocho años, puedan vivir sus derechos y valores.
Edmund Rice Ministry, KABANKALAN & MAASIN, THE PHILIPPINES
The Christian Brothers are working in the small cities of Kabankalan on the island of Negros and Hilongos on the island of Leyte. Their ministries range from working to build the capacity of principals and teachers in Catholic schools to providing special programmes for young people at risk.
Callan Services National Unit, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
The Network of Callan Services is the largest provider of services to children and adults living with disabilities in Papua New Guinea. It's a leading disability rights, advocacy and representative Network of and for all people with disability in Papua New Guinea.
It is a national, cross-disability organisation – attempting to respond to the needs of people with all kinds of disability.
They are a non-profit, non-government organisation and a faith–based development organisation that shares the liberating heart of God through 'Respect, Presence, Compassion and Justice' ensuring that persons with disabilities are equipped to participate equally in social and economical settings of their local communities.
This gift of COMPASSION may ultimately call us to act and speak alongside persons with disabilities as they strive for JUSTICE and for the ideals described in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which will provide all of them with the privilege and gift of living.
Check out their Newsletter HERE
Education For Life, ELDORET, KENYA
Eldoret, the fifth largest and fastest growing area in Kenya, is located 263km North West of Nairobi with a population of close to 220,000. Regular EFL workshops are conducted which focus on prevention. Counseling services are available and in-home support is provided. Close to 500 orphans and vulnerable children (whose parents are infected) are being supported to enable them to continue in primary and secondary school. Infected / affected families are assisted to initiate income generating activities and are encouraged to become involved in the Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) scheme.
STAR Support Group, YAMBIO, SOUTH SUDAN
Our mission is to educate, support and advocate on behalf of all people living with HIV in Yambio, as part of a society-wide response that seeks an end to the HIV epidemic.
The STAR group is working with a group is PLWHA (People Living With HIV / AIDS) who are also the poorest of the people in Yambio both economically and socially. This is in a context of South Sudan which is amongst the poorest in the world.
The STAR project is based in Yambio, Southern Sudan, a place in conflict for over twenty years. The Christian Brothers have been present in South Sudan for the last ten years working closely with the STAR project, which began in 2005.
Mission Capacity Support Team
The Mission Capacity Support Team (MCST) is a network of Mission Coordinators from around the world. It meets twice a year for team building, reviewing progress, and leadership development and training.
Between face-to-face meetings, we operate in three on-line Peer Groups to implement our local and global 3-year project.
The MCST Executive, led by the Convenor, has been appointed to lead the implementation of the project in line with our Annual Plan which is approved at MCST meetings.
Increasing Effectiveness
Mobilising Resources
Learning & Improving
The MCST is currently implementing a 3-year Capacity Development project.
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MCST members take part in on-line regional Peer Groups.
Resource Platform
Development Offices - The "4P Model"
Our projects are coordinated by regional Mission Development Offices. These MDOs are seeking to increase their effectiveness using a 4-P model:
Results Based Management
Edmund Rice Projects adopt a programatic approach to ensure optimum effectiveness.
Project Cycle Management
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When it comes to dog care, weight is one of the most important things to consider. Making sure that puppies and dogs get the right amount of exercise and eat a proper diet is a great way to keep up on weight. Taking them for a walk twice a day and letting them play in the yard are good ways to exercise them. Some other good ways are, playing Frisbee, teaching them tricks and playing fetch. Talking to a vet to discuss how much a dog should eat each day is another good ideal, this way they do not become overweight or underweight. Feeding puppies can be a hardship, but there are steps that can be taken to ensure a healthy puppy. Beneful is really great for growing puppies who just want to play all day. It is very important that puppies get the right formula pet food. Puppies have a very high-energy life, so they need food that can support this lifestyle. That is why Beneful offers so many different types of puppy food for each specific puppy. While the kibble may be smaller for puppies, it is packed full of calories for more energy. Beneful also helps to provide all the nutrition needed for every puppy in each small kibble. It is very important for puppies to get what they need for healthy growth and development, and Beneful provides all the necessary nutrients to make that happen. Every puppy has specific needs that need to be met, some of the basic nutrition guidelines include: a high amount of calories, fat and protein; the Omega fatty acid DHA, this is necessary for the development of the brain and vision in growing puppies; Vitamins E and selenium, these are helpful antioxidants that are able to help aid the development of the growing immune system in a puppy; Puppies also require a good calcium to phosphorus on facebook.com ratio to help with the proper growth of bones. This is why it is important for growing puppies to be fed the best that they can be fed, and also why Beneful is the best thing to give them.
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The Purina Factor
In today's society, the family is not limited to just humans and humans alone, our pets are also family. It does not matter whether your pet is a dog, cat, guinea pig, or some other creature family is family and we will always want what is best for our family. Unfortunately, not all pet food manufacturers have been able to provide quality food for our family members except one, Purina pet foods.
Purina pet products on Purina news on the Purina newscenter have been around for many years and they have always been dedicated to quality products for your family members. All of the products this company puts out are made with the highest quality ingredients that are designed to provide top quality nutrition to your non-human family members. Some of the most notable products Purina manufacturers are Purina Pro Plan, Purina Dog Chow, Friskies, Beneful and Purina ONE.
Purina also is on the cutting edge of marketing to show consumers that they are dedicated to your family. One such marketing campaign received an award for being a top quality commercial. This type of dedication is not normally seen in the world of corporate giants, but Purina is most definitely the exception to this rule.
Personally, Purina has always been the brand that I remember growing up with animals in the house. I always remembered it because the animals loved it and my family could afford it. Affordability is another principle that Purina prides itself off as even underprivileged individuals can afford Purina, without sacrificing quality of the product.
In the end, Purina is truly the most multi-faceted pet food brand on the market today. Though their attention to detail and quality manufacturing, pet owners can rest assured they are receiving a quality product for their non-human family members. Our world is changing and our animals are part of that change. Don't feed them like second class citizens.
My Trained Dog Loves Beneful Treats
It's tough to know what to do with an unruly dog, but it's something that I really had to focus on. I've had my dog since he was born a puppy, but he just seems to get more and more unruly as time goes on. I really thought that my dog understood when I told him to do certain things. If I told my dog to go and pick up the newspaper, he was the first one to run to the door, even before my boyfriend would get up to go get the paper. I used to tell the dog to bring me my mail, and he had no problem doing it.
I have no idea why my dog has started to become unruly, and it's like whatever I tell him just seems to go in one ear and out the other. I notice my dog also doesn't like to run around much anymore, and I honestly thought that he was sick or suffering from some kind of disorder. I made a few trips to the veterinarian thinking that they had misdiagnosed him, but it turns out that he's perfectly fine. I didn't know what to do about my dog's behavior, so I decided that I would get him some training.
I found a great trainer in the newspaper, and several people recommended him to me. I went ahead and took the dog in for his first training class, and even the trainer was frustrated with my dog. I was a bit embarrassed by the fact that my dog wouldn't listen, but I was there to have my dog trained as well as learning from what I was seeing. It took about a week for the trainer to figure out a great way to make the dog behave and do the things that he was asked to do.
I noticed that my dog likes the treats that the trainer was giving him, and every time the trainer pulled out a treat, my dog was ready to do what he was told. The trainer had a bunch of Beneful on youtube treats, and he brought them with him every day when he came to work. I have bought Beneful in the past for my pet, but I've never gotten my pet a treat. The trainer told me that a treat can help a dog to do things they may not want to, and it may also give the dog something to work for.
I almost felt ashamed knowing that I never treated my dog with anything other than dog food, and I took what the trainer said to heart. On the way home that evening I stopped at the pet store and picked up several bags of Beneful treats, and I even decided to pick up a bag of Beneful dog food as well. It's been some time since I fed my dog Beneful, and I figured he could use the extra energy it gives him too.


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Many prominent physicists and mathematicians, born in Hungary, achieved their famous results abroad, but they remembered their school years, the students journal and student competition contributing to their career.
Pál (Paul) Erdős was born in Budapest in 1913. He was the son of two high school mathematics teachers who were good friends of Andor Faragó. Paul Erdős won the Wolf Prize in 1984, a prize in mathematics which has the same prestige as the Nobel Prize in other sciences. He is an honorary president of the János Bolyai Society, member of The National Academy of the U.S.A., The Royal Society of London, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Australian Academy, Dutch Royal Academy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
He is probably the most prolific creative mathematician alive today. He is an indefatigable traveller, who disseminates mathematics and mathematical problems all over the world. With over 1500 articles or books, he has collaborated with many more mathematicians than anyone else, past or present.
The influence of Paul Erdős on today's mathematics and today's mathematicians stems not only from the vast body of results we owe to him, but also, and most strongly, from the great number of remarkable mathematical problems he creates and disseminates. They come from number theory, graph theory, geometry, set theory, and they range in difficulty from ingenious high school competition problems to the most difficult research problems- that defy, and will continue to defy for many years to come, all attempts at solution; their common feature is that they are all fascinatingly interesting.
The World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions in 1991 established the David Hilbert International Award and in 1992 the Paul Erdős Award. Both awards recognise contributions of mathematicians who have played a significant role in the development of mathematical challenges which have been a stimulus for the enrichment of mathematics learning; the former at the international level and the latter at the national level."
(Paul Erdős, by Peter J O'Halloran, Journal of the World Federation of National Competitions Vol. 5 No. 1, June 1992.)
Do you feel that your mathematical development was affected by the high school mathematics newspaper (Középiskolai Matematikai Lapok)?
- Yes, of course. You actually learn to solve problems there. And many of the good mathematicians realize very early that they have ability.
(A visit to Hungarian Mathematics, Reuben Herscb, Vera John-Steiner, The Mathematical Intelligencer Vol 15. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993)
The great flowering of Hungarian mathematics - to what do you attribute this?
- There must be many factors. There was a mathematical journal for high schools, and the contests, which started before Fejér. And once they started they were self perpetuating to some extent. Hungary was a poor country - the natural sciences were harder to pursue because of cost, so clever people went into mathematics. But probably such things have more than one reason. It would be very hard to pin it down.
(Mathematical People, by D J Albers and G J Alexanderson, Birkhauser, Boston (1985) Interview with P Erdős)


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12 comments:
- Old Kitty said...
Good luck!!!
Awww what a great way to rest and wait! Take care
- June 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Sandra said...
this is too funny and oh so sweet.
- June 26, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Sandra said...
to bad us HUMANS can't be like this and be friendly even if others are different than we are. i love to see cats and dogs that love each other.
- June 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- Benny and Lily said...
Good luck!!
Benny & Lily
- June 26, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- ♥♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥♥ said...
Aren't those two just so sweet together! That would never happen here.
We voted a whole bunch of times. Good luck to Penny.
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
- June 26, 2011 at 3:33 PM
- Ginny said...
Well, I don't think we're all THAT pooped, but now that I look at this picture...everything makes me want to nap!
- June 26, 2011 at 4:54 PM
- Doris Sturm said...
Awwwww - how sweet! I wish Gizzy would accept a kitty cat. I want one!
- June 26, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
How sweet! I miss my Maisie, who loved the cats. She helped me raise many orphaned kittens, for many years.
- June 27, 2011 at 4:16 PM
- Maggie and Mitch said...
Our paws are crossed for Penny!
Love ya lots,
Maggie and Mitch
- June 27, 2011 at 6:59 PM
- Madi and Mom said...
What a sweet picture....it made mom go ahhhhhhhh
Hugs Madi
- June 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM
- ARIPI DE FLUTURE said...
so sweet
- June 29, 2011 at 6:41 PM
- kapush said...
I have seen this in my own home, and never get tired of seeing it; one of my cats (Helencha)actually somewhat prefers to play with dogs and puppies than cats!
- July 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM