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The Quad is a now a monthly publication of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR). It includes updates on research and publications; alerts about items in the news; original commentary by scholars; and news about our partners.
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Christian Academics Cite Hostility On Campus
Featuring Aryeh K. Weinberg
Aryeh K. Weinberg, prominent IJCR scholar, was featured on NPR, commenting on a recent study finding that more than half of the 1,200 academics who responded to an IJCR survey revealed that they have unfavorable feelings toward evangelical Christians. View the article and listen to the 5 minute radio program
Anti-Semitism Initiative Column
By Kenneth L. Marcus, Director
 What does it mean to be Jewish?
This ancient question has become a pressing civil rights controversy.
Despite a recent resurgence of anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses, the U.S. Department of Education's powerful Office for Civil Rights has been unable to protect Jewish students. This failure has been a problem not of execution but of conceptualization. The OCR has been unable to address anti-Jewish harassment because it lacks a coherent conception of either Jewish identity or anti-Jewish hatred.
Read the excerpt adapted from Jewish Identity and Civil Rights published by Cambridge University Press to be released
September 30, 2010
New Fox News Documentary
"Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children Are Really Reading?" featuring Trouble with Textbooks co-author Dennis Ybarra
Watch excerpts: 4 minutes
Watch excerpts: 14 minutes
Watch the full program: 44 minutes
We mourn the July 6 passing of Dr. Gary Tobin, innovative teacher, writer, community builder, and founder of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research.
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Affiliated Research Center
The Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
The Institute for Jewish and Community Research (IJCR) and The Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion are collaborating on research projects. Scholars from each institute now hold reciprocal appointments that create a top team to conduct research and produce joint publications in the study of religion. Among the projects will be studies of attitudes about religion among college faculty and an extensive survey about how college students experience religion on campus. They will also engage in a multi-year study of tolerance and intolerance of different religious groups in the United States.
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Upcoming Book
Jewish Identity
and Civil Rights in America
Kenneth L. Marcus
What does it mean to be Jewish?
This ancient question has become a pressing civil rights controversy.
"…a seminal work on Jews and racial identity, distilling the major arguments surrounding the federal government’s decision not to investigate allegations of anti-Semitism on American colleges and universities...” Marc Dollinger
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The UnCivil University: Intolerance on College Campuses, Revised Edition
Gary A. Tobin, Aryeh K. Weinberg, and Jenna Ferer.
Publishers Weekly says, “In this alarming, well-sourced analysis, researchers for the IJCR find anti-Israel propagandists using the banner of academic freedom to intimidate, marginalize and indoctrinate...”
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The Trouble with Textbooks:
Distorting History and Religion
Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008)
 The Trouble with Textbooks sounds the alarm about how textbooks disparage some groups and teach historical distortions. Our schools are supposed to instill young people with American values and provide students with the knowledge necessary for good citizenship. Instead, textbooks are filled with mistakes and misrepresentations.
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Is Your Child Reading a Problematic Textbook? (PDF)
Mega-Gifts in Jewish Philanthropy:
Giving Patterns 2001-2003
Gary A. Tobin and Aryeh K. Weinberg
Press Release
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List of Jewish Mega-Gifts 2001-2003
 Mega-Gifts in American Philanthropy: Giving Patterns 2001-2003
Gary A. Tobin and Aryeh K. Weinberg
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List of Mega-Gifts 2001-2003
Talking Truth about Jewish Federations
Gary A. Tobin
Press Release
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A Study of Jewish Foundations
Gary A. Tobin and Aryeh K. Weinberg.
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 Profiles of the American University / Volume II: Religious Beliefs & Behavior of College Faculty
Gary A. Tobin and Aryeh K. Weinberg.
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Profiles of the American University / Volume I: Political Beliefs & Behavior of College Faculty
Gary A. Tobin and Aryeh K. Weinberg.
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Go Global
with Be'chol Lashon!
 Click here to learn about the ways that Be'chol Lashon is working with partner organizations to increase participation in Jewish life.
Read the August Newsletter
New! Be'chol Lashon Video
Be'chol Lashon:
A Global Jewish Community
Click here to watch.
Tobin Health Center Opens in Mbale, Uganda
The director of Be'chol Lashon, Diane Tobin, and members of the Be'chol Lashon team traveled to Uganda in June 2010 for the dedication of the Tobin Health Center, named for Gary Tobin.
Don't miss the Video Podcast
2010 Be’chol Lashon Media Awards
The 2010 Be'chol Lashon Media Awards honor excellence in coverage of Jewish ethnic and racial diversity in print, broadcast/film, and new/emerging media.
Sing for Joy: Worship music of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda
 Music has long been a motivating force for religion in Africa and has been critical to the survival of the Abayudaya community.
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 In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People by Diane Tobin, Gary A. Tobin, and Scott Rubin.
(San Francisco: The Institute for Jewish & Community Research, 2005.)
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In Every Tongue documents the little known racial and ethnic diversity of the Jewish people, both in the United States and around the world. The impact of the book’s findings reach far beyond the Jewish community. The increasing diversity of the Jewish people is a microcosm of larger changes afoot in American society.
 2006 Independent Publisher
Book Award Finalist!
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