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Appendix A: Jewish Education Influence Degree
The index is based on the quantification of the following items:
I. Jewish grammar school attendance:
Yes I
No 0
2. Jewish youth-group membership:
Less than one year o
One to two years 0.5
Three or more years I
3. Barmat Mitzvah:
Yes I
No 0
4. Jewish holiday observances in parental home (Shabbat, Yom Kippur, Rosh
Hashana, Passover, Hanuka):
One festival o
Two to three 0.5
Four or more I
5. Kashrut observance in parental home:
Yes 2
Partially I
No 0
The Jewish Education Influence Degree results from adding together the weights assigned each
item, with a range of o to 6.
Notes
The research project described in this article was conducted on a grant from the Memorial Foun-
dation for Jewish Culture.
I. The intermarriage categories outlined here are broadly the same as those used by E. Mayer
and C. Sheingold, Intermarriage and thelewish Future (New York: American Jewish Commit-
tee, 1979).
2. Simon N. Herman, ]ewish Identity (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1977). p. 39.