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THE DETROIT JEWISH, NEWS
Friday, August 3, 1984 85
NEWS
Study examines problems
of Israelis living in U.S.
New York — Few Israelis
now living in the United
States feel, accepted by the
American Jewish commu-
nity. This is one finding of a
research study, Israelis in
America„ by Dr. Neal S.
Fish.
- Dr. Fish's work was based
on in-depth interviews with
35 Israeli couples who had
lived in the Philadelphia
area for at least one year.
In the course of his re-
search, Dr. Fish discovered
that Israelis often have
serious marital conflict
created by questions con-
cerning remaining in the
United States. Marriage
counselors should try to
calm this conflict, he said.
In working with Israelis
.in the United States,
American Jews should re-
member that most of these
Israelis are "sojourners,"
Dr. Fish explained.
"Psychologically, they don't
unpack their bags. They
don't invest energy to re-
establish roots. They want
to eventually return to Is-
rael, but they have no defi-
nite plan of action."
"Many sojourners experi-
ence tension between what
they believe in and what
they actually are doing," he
said. "They think they
should be raising their chil-
dren in Israel, but instead
they are living here."
"They want to be in
America but not become
Americans," Dr. Fish
added.
Israelis are fiercely proud
of being citizens of the
Jewish state, he said, yet
life in the U.S. is more pros-
perous, comfortable, and se-
cure.
Israelis also have a dif-
ficult time adapting to the
minority Jewish culture of
the U.S., Dr. Fish said.
Services they take for
granted in Israel — such as
traditional Jewish educa-
tion in public schools, public
observance of holidays, and
free synagogue membership
— are lacking or costly in
America.
"Living in Israel, serving
in the army, being part of a
whole process has the sense
of a vital mitzvah, and, in
fact, it is," Dr. Fish said. "Is-
raelis know they are part of
something special. It is
their link, their special
bond of belonging, and they
can't achieve it here."
YU law school gets grant
for health care study_ ,
New York — The Benja-
min N. Cardozo School of
Law of Yeshiva Univrsity
has received a research
grant from the Office of
Technoloy Assessment
(OTA) of the U.S. Congress.
The grant has been
awarded for a project which
will examine the relation-
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