Familial empirical risks for inflammatory bowel disease: differences between Jews and non-Jews.

Jews and Infl ammatory Bowel Diseases

Familial Mediterranean fever in Ashkenazi Jews.

Managing terror: differences between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Using telephone surveys, we examined exposure to terror, coping, and mental health response in randomly selected Jewish-Israelis (n = 100) and Arab-Israelis (n = 100) living in five Israeli cities affected by terrorism. Jewish-Israelis and Arab-Israelis were randomly selected for study participation and completed telephone surveys in May 2002, following an extended string of terror attacks and ...

Jews and Sport

A special journal issue that is dedicated to the last hundred years of Jewish experiences in sports deserves more than just a perfunctory introduction. Introductions by nature are depthless attempts to present an overview on a subject matter, often forcing us to gloss over underlying issues and subtexts not immediately notable to the reader. A mere introduction would hardly do justice, on the o...

Affirmative psychotherapy for American Jews.

As psychotherapists have increasingly attended to issues of culture, race, and ethnicity in their clinical work, some groups have not received adequate attention in the professional literature. One such group is American Jews, who represent a small, culturally distinct group of people who have experienced a long history of oppression. Because of the substantial within-group variability, stereot...