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During a time of rapid change in the American Jewish community, an outstanding group of Jewish scholars and professionals address the critical problems and future prospects of American Jewry. They discuss the sharp controversies over feminism and religious language, new data on the relationship between Israelis and American Jews, and the interaction between family and synagogue. The wide scope of topics provides an understanding of the dynamics shaping the lives of American Jews and their diverse views of the future.

ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA --- JEWS --- HISTORY --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- RELIGION --- Israel And The Diaspora --- Jews --- History --- Social Science --- Religion --- Israel and the diaspora --- Social science

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" . . . acute look at the state of contemporary culture . . . A humorous . . . book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." --Back Stage / Shoot"Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work. . . . High Anxietyis an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate . . . " --Art + TextWritten with wit and flair, High Anxietyis a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, a narrative journey between Freud's texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture. Operation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, and Oprah are a few of the subjects which form this "anxious" mosaic of popular culture.

TELEVISION BROADCASTING --- POPULAR CULTURE --- WOMEN IN TELEVISION --- PERFORMING ARTS --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Television Broadcasting --- Popular Culture --- Women In Television --- Performing Arts --- Social Science --- Television broadcasting --- Popular culture --- Women in television --- Performing arts --- Social science

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This book is an ethnographic study of an old age home in Israel that sheds light on the existential experience of elderly retirees. Hazan looks carefully at the universal concerns of old age, specifically examining the nature of everyday life in the institutional setting. He shows the workings of the micropolitics of control in an old age home and the tension between controlling dwindling resources and sustaining life-long meaning for residents. He also effectively brings out distinctive features of the Israeli situation, its cultural and bureaucratic codes. Hazan's study of the life cycle, based in the anthropology of process, is a senstive portrayal of the dynamics of institutionalized elderly in a complex society.

OLDER PEOPLE --- OLD AGE HOMES --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS --- MEDICAL --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Older People --- Old Age Homes --- Family & Relationships --- Medical --- Social Science --- Older people --- Old age homes --- Family & relationships --- Social science

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The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs, they focus on the way litigators propel certain issues onto the Court's agenda and seek to persuade the justices to affect legal change.

United States --- Abortion --- Capital Punishment --- Political Questions And Judicial Power --- Political Science --- Law --- Social Science

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Social sciences --- -Policy sciences --- Policy-making --- Policymaking --- Public policy management --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Research --- Policy sciences. --- Research. --- Policy sciences --- Social science research