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Doctors Say `Shuckling'
May Harm Eyesight

Tel Aviv (JTA) —
"Shuckling," the time-
honored practice of religious
Jews, may be bad for your
eyes, ophthalmologists at
Shaare Zedek Hospital in
Jerusalem, an Orthodox es-
tablishment, have warned.
But they add that addi-
tional research is required
before they will advise the
Orthodox community what
to do about it.
"Shuckling" is the Yiddish
term for the back and forth
motion adopted by the Or-
thodox when praying or stu-
dying while poring closely
over religious texts.
(The Shakers, a fundamen-
talist Christian sect in the
United States, get their
name from similar
movements used in prayer.)
Professor David Berson,
head of Shaare Zedek's oph-
thalmology department, and
several colleagues began
studying the eyekght of the
ultra-Orthodox after noting
that an inordinate number
of those frequenting its out-
patient clinic were yeshiva
students needing or wearing
glasses.
Eight years ago, they
began examining their
yeshiva patients and com-
paring them with a control
group of students from a
secular high school in
Jerusalem,' where pupils
were known to study hard.
They found that the
yeshiva students were twice
as likely as ordinary high-
school pupils to suffer from
nearsightedness, and eight
times as likely to be severely
myopic.
Their data showed that

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boys were nearsighted, 13.1
percent severely so, corn-
pared to 24.6 percent and 1.6
percent respectively at the
secular high school.
They recently returned to
the high school and recheck-
ed their findings, which re-
mained constant. They also
discovered that the in-
cidence of myopia among
yeshiva girls was no higher
than among the secular
high-school students, thus
ruling out a genetic or
familial cause.
Religious girls do not
shake like their brothers.
The researchers point out
that "shuckling" changes
the distance between the
eyes and the book being
studied, forcing the eye to
continuously refocus.
Myopia is caused by the
lengthening of the eyeball or
an error in deflecting light
rays so that parallel rays of
light are focused in front of,
instead of on, the retina.
The greatly varied sizes of
print in the holy books is
also a contributing factor to
the yeshiva students' bad
eyesight. The Shaare Zedek
researchers are continuing
their investigations into
young children in an effort
to find out when myopia
begins.
Asked whether long hours
of watching television — not
a practice of yeshiva
students or the ultra-
Orthodox — hurt eyesight,
Berson noted that while it
may "harm the mind," TV
viewing does not seem to
damage sight, as it is viewed
from afar.

Stateless Black Hebrews
To Get Return Option?

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46.7 percent of the yeshiva

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sraeli and U.S. au-
thorities reportedly have
reached an "interim solu-
tion" to the problem of some
3,000 stateless Black Heb-
rews, which will give them
the option of returning to the
United States or accepting
temporary Israeli visas.
The community has been
living illegally under suf-
ferance and in squalor near
the Negev development
town of Dimona for more
than 20 years.
The group of black Ameri-
cans, originally from the
Chicago area, came to Israel

in the 1960s, claiming
residence rights as Jews.
Their numbers increased as
other sect members arrived
in the country as tourists
and stayed on illegally.
They refused to convert to
Judaism, asserting they
were the "true Hebrews"
and that Israelis were not, in
fact, authentic Jews.
The Black Hebrews re-
nounced their U.S. citizen-
ship and demonstratively
turned in their American
passports to the U.S. Em-
bassy.
They could not therefore
be returned to the United
States, though about 100
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