Keeping the Faith depicts best friends from childhood, one being and Rabbi and one being a Priest, and from this close friendship comes a supportive and close relationship between religions. Rabbi Jacob Schram is the youngest rabbi at his conservative synagogue in New York City and is depicted as the new style of a Jewish rabbi. Unlike the traditional rabbi, usually old and very strict with their religion, Jake is funny and entertaining, which is extremely unoriginal. The movie shows this transformation from original to a new style through the relationships Jake has with the people that are non-Jewish. Jake’s lack of effort to find a Jewish wife results in the older woman of the congregation attempting to set him up with there daughters.
In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, the sons of two Jewish families are growing up in Brooklyn during World War II. Through the narrator, Rueven Malter, we meet Danny Saunders, a young Hasid who greatly affects Reuven’s maturation. Despite the differences in their backgrounds and the prejudices they each bring to the relationship, they overcome these obstacles to build a strong bond; similarly, adolescents today sometimes have to break down barriers to overcome prejudgment, to reach understanding, and to find a true friendship like theirs. When Danny and Reuven first meet, differences and prejudices stand in the way of the friendship. Reuven says that “Sometime during that half inning, one of the members of the yeshiva team had shouted at us in Yiddish, “Burn in hell, you apikorism!” and by the time that half inning was over and we were standing around Mr. Galanter near the wire screen, all of us knew that this was not just another ball game.” (Potok 26) This stereotyping and name-calling ensues during the game.
Harry Braverman Harry Braverman was born on December 9, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish- Polish parents, Morris and Sarah Braverman. His father was a shoe maker and worked hard to provide his son with a college education. Unfortunately, after one year at Brooklyn College, Braverman was forced to withdraw from college and find employment. He did, however, return to college in the early 1960s, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree from the New School for Social Research in 1963 (Gale, "Harry Braverman."). Although his time at college was short, it greatly influenced him as the radical ideas of socialism and Marxism spread throughout New York's college campuses (Marxists’ Internet Archive).
He also realized that to stop anti Semitism, a Jewish state must be created in which the Jews can rule over each other. Hess was known as “the first Zionist” and he was unique because he looked at Zionism as a way for the Jewish people to be independent like other nations and as the solution of anti Semitism. Moses Hess was raised in Bonn by his grandfather because his father had moved to Cologne for business (Rome and Jerusalem). Although Hess was Jewish, he was not raised with a Jewish education; he was raised as a secular Jew. But despite his upbringing, anti-Semitism had always bothered him.
I also noticed some of the children had developed self-efficacy. I do think socioeconomic status influences childhood development. For instance in the film when asked about plans after graduation the higher class students all had a university in mind, but the lower class children didn’t really have anything in mind. One lower class child said he wanted to be a cab driver. Also children from a higher social class tend to look down on and make fun of lower class people.
Mosetta Holmes Name_______________________________ Major Works Data Sheet Title:___________________________ The Catcher in the Rye Biographical information about the author: Notable not only for his writing but also for his private nature, J.D. Salinger is the aloof author of the popular 1951 novel, The Catcher In The Rye. Born on January 1, 1919 in New York City, Salinger would later become one of the most influential 20th century American writers. He was the youngest of two children and the only son of Sol Salinger, a rabbi who sold kosher cheese, and his mother of Scottish decent, Mariam. Not much of a student, Salinger flunked out of the McBurney School in New York and was later sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
While every document stands out for their individualism, these teenagers share a common fate, being Jewish and living in anti-Semitic times. These components contribute to being a very worthy book. We Are Witnesses is not part of a series. The author, Boas was born in 1943 and like the teenagers in this book, he experienced the disintegration of his life. He is a Holocaust survivor.
Colin Gaines English 1301 Mr. Hulse 15 October 2013 The Teacher in Himself In Frederick Douglass’s narrative essay, “Learning to Read,” he explains how he taught himself how to read and write. His slave owners did not want him to earn an education, since they feared a slave who thought independently. I believe Douglass does not have an enabling figure in his life because he taught himself, through challenging other children, how to read and write. This was the stepping stone to achieving his education. Douglass overcame various obstacles in his life, such as learning to read and write, and gaining his freedom.
There is a man who was an assistant in Cleveland Public Schools who grew up in the projects; saw gangs and drugs; was raised by a single mother with five or six siblings. He knew that that life was not for him. Through the military, he attended college, earned a masters degree in psychology, got married and is quite successful. These stories are out there to find and inspire these children to know that
the most traditional Jews and the most liberal Jews and everyone in between would agree that these secular people are still jews, regardless of their disbelief. Clearly, then there is more to begin jewish than just a religion. Are jews a race? in the 1980s, the unnited staes supreme court ruled that jews are a race, at least for purposes of certain anti-discriminatin laws. their reasoning: at the time these laws were passed, people routinely spoke of the "Jewish race" or the "Italian race" as well as the "Negro race" as well as the "Negro race", so that is what the legislator intended to protect.