Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Culture Day Schools Learn New Math During Economic Downturn
Throughout the prosperous 1990s, the Agnon School, a non-denominational Jewish day school in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood, experienced steady growth in student enrollment. In the last few years, however, with the national economic downturn, the student population has fallen by more than a quarter — from a high of 410 students enrolled in its…
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News House Takes Aim at Judiciary on Church-State Cases
In what critics are describing as an unprecedented challenge to judicial power, the House of Representatives last week overwhelmingly approved two legislative amendments aimed at short-circuiting a pair of high-profile court rulings regarding church-state issues. In a 260-161 vote, the House approved an amendment to an appropriations bill July 23 that would prohibit the use…
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News Creating Common Cultural Identity in a Diverse Israel
Benjamin Ish-Shalom and Elazar Stern are the quintessential odd couple. Professor Ish-Shalom, dressed formally in a suit and tie with wire-rim glasses, sideburns and slightly disheveled hair, looks every bit the academic. The founder and rector of Beit Morasha of Jerusalem: The Academic Center for Jewish Studies and Leadership, Ish-Shalom speaks with the precision of…
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News ADL, Bush Hail Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action
Outspoken foes of affirmative action were bitterly disappointed Monday, as a majority of the high court’s justices for the first time upheld the use of racial preferences to promote student body diversity. In a twist, however, two guarded critics of affirmative action — the Bush administration and the Anti-Defamation League — joined supporters of racial…
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News Survey Finds Poverty Rate Among Jews Soars in N.Y.
The number of poor Jews in New York City has skyrocketed over the past decade, coinciding with significant shifts in the demographic makeup of the nation’s largest Jewish community, according to a major survey released Monday by UJA-Federation of New York. The survey, the 2002 Jewish Community Study of New York, found that the proportion…
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News N.Y. Reform, Conservative Numbers Down
Headline coverage of the new demographic study released this week by UJA-Federation of New York trumpeted its findings on poverty and migration, including the fact that the Jewish population within New York City had dropped below 1 million for the first time in a century, which The New York Times called a “city milestone.” Some…
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News Former Foe of Affirmative Action Backs Policy in Michigan Case
During the 1970s, the neoconservative sociologist Nathan Glazer was one of affirmative action’s leading critics. Now, with the U.S. Supreme Court expected to hand down a decision this month determining the future of affirmative action in university admissions, Glazer has signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief along with six other social scientists defending the University of…
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News Seeds of Jewish Revival Sprout on City College Campus
City College of New York, the near-mythic temple of working-class Jewish advancement, is on the rebound. Known to generations as a bridge between a working-class, immigrant past and a middle-class, professional future, the college has been for the most part forsaken in recent years by the children and grandchildren of its upwardly mobile Jewish alumni….
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