http://dcoll.brandeis.edu:80 The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. http://hdl.handle.net/10192/23380 Generation Birthright Israel: The Impact of an Israel Experience on Jewish Identity and Choices Saxe, Leonard Phillips, Benjamin Sasson, Theodore Hecht, Shahar Shain, Michelle Wright, Graham Kadushin, Charles This report finds that a 10-day educational program in Israel continues to build Jewish identity years after the participants have returned. This study examines early participants (comparing them to similar peers who applied to the program but did not go) and their decisions and attitudes regarding marriage, community, and connection to Israel. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10192/23360 Future of the Synagogue Sales, Amy L. This article imagines possibilities for the future of the synagogue by examining the forces currently pushing on the institution. As part of the nonprofit sector, the synagogue is subject to the same trends affecting all nonprofit agencies. As a congregation, it is affected by the weakened Judaic knowledge, values, and belief of the rising generation.The successful synagogue of the future will understand these forces and respond proactively. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10192/23340 The New Realism: American Jews' Views about Israel Sasson, Theodore Once an occasion for solidarity, consensus-building, and collective action, Israel advocacy as practiced by American Jewish organizations has become increasingly pluralistic, partisan, and contentious. But what of the Jewish grass roots? Do the divergent viewpoints that increasingly separate Israel advocates also divide the rank-and-file? Fri, 29 May 2009 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10192/23325 Memory for Object Details in Self- and Other-Referencing Serbun, Sarah J. Self-referencing benefits item memory, but few studies have investigated the level of detail accurately encoded in these memories. Experiment 1a tested the hypothesis that self-referencing would not only enhance general memory for objects but also memory for specific details of objects. Thirty-two American participants encoded objects in reference to either the self, a close other (one’s mother), or a familiar other (Bill Clinton). Following a two-day retention interval, participants indicated whether objects were the same as a previously encoded object, similar to an encoded object, or new. Main effects of encoding Condition and Memory type (Specific, General) emerged. General memory was significantly better than specific memory and objects encoded with the self or mother were better remembered than objects encoded with Clinton. Experiment 1b replicated the study with an East Asian sample and results were compared across culture. Americans performed better than Asians in specific memory but both cultures showed the same memory pattern across encoding conditions. We conclude that self- and mother-referencing only enhance memory for object details for Americans. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:58:02 GMT