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Item Metadata only Abraham Maslow: The Last Weekend(Sage, 2021-02-22) Hoffman, Edward; Morrell, Marylyn; 0000-0001-9789-5039Abraham Maslow died suddenly of a heart attack in June 1970 at the peak of his intellectual renown and influence. This is an account of his final weekend as described in hand-written notes by the first author, who was a frequent visitor to the Maslow home in the San Francisco Bay area at the time. This account, which sheds new light on Maslow’s personal life, interests, and plans, has been edited for readability with contextual notes provided by the second author.Item Open Access After Pittsburgh.(First Things., 2019-02) Carmy, Shalom; 0000-0003-1515-4216Item Metadata only Alfred Adler: The man who understood superheroes.(2020) Hoffman, Edward; 0000-0001-9789-5039provides the best means to understand this. Ironically, Alfred Adler died less than a year before the most famous and long-enduring superhero was created: Superman. Nevertheless, the founder of Individual Psychology well understood the human need to feel powerful and help others through kindness and compassion and would not have been surprised to see the potent emergence of this genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Individual Psychology is the property of University of Texas Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)Item Open Access Ancient Hebrew מעצד and עצד in the Gezer Calendar.(The University of Chicago, 2013) Koller, Aaron(From conclusion): To summarize, therefore, it has been seen that the Hebrew noun מעצד refers to the “adze” throughout the history of ancient Hebrew: it is found twice in the Hebrew Bible, in relatively unrevealing contexts, and often in rabbinic literature, in contexts that make the identification clear. Hebrew is unique among the Semitic languages in having a noun from the root עצד which refers to a carpentry tool; in other languages, cognates refer to agricultural tools and other cutting tools, but not to the tools of the carpenter. Although the literary corpus of Hebrew (Biblical through Mishnaic) does not contain any attestations of the verbal root עצד , this root is attested in the Gezer calendar. Since flax ( פשת ) is “uprooted” rather than “cut,” however, the use of עצד in the Gezer calendar does not match the data regarding the semantics of the root within Hebrew. Instead, I have suggested the connection of Gezer’s עצד with Aramaic חצד , and posit that in the dialect of the scribe, the ע and the ח were indistinguishable, at least in some contexts.Item Open Access Angels.(Oxford University Press, 2014-08) Angel, Joseph; Walsh, MatthewAngels are supernatural beings who serve a variety of functions in biblical literature. The term most often used to denote angels in the Hebrew Bible, mal’ak, means “messenger.” The Septuagint frequently translates mal’ak with the Greek angelos, from which the English word “angel” derives. While angels are mentioned several times in the earlier writings of the Hebrew Bible, in the literature of the Second Temple period a veritable explosion of interest in them is found. Jewish writings of this era exhibit a sustained interest in identifying the various ranks and orders of the angels as well as in naming individual angels and delineating their specific functions. The extensive angelological speculation of this period deeply influenced later forms of Judaism and as well as constituting an important element of the Jewish heritage of early Christianity.Item Open Access Aramaic.(Oxford University Press, 2017-04-27) Koller, AaronItem Open Access Associations of number of daily eating occasions with type 2 diabetes risk in the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial(Elsevier Inc., 2020-08) Schnall, Eliezer; Neuhouser, Marian L.; Wertheim, Betsy C.; Hingle, Melanie; Tinker, Lesley F.; Shikany, James M.; Johnson, Karen C; Waring, Molly E.; Seguin-Fowler, Rebecca A; Vitolins, Mara Z.; Snetselaar, Linda; Thomson, Cynthia•Background• Over 23 million Americans have type 2 diabetes (T2D). Eating habits such as breakfast consumption, time-restricted eating, and limiting daily eating occasions have been explored as behaviors for reducing T2D risk, but prior evidence is inconclusive. ••Objectives Our objectives were to examine associations between number of daily eating occasions and T2D risk in the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial (WHI-DM) and whether associations vary by BMI, age, or race/ethnicity. ••Methods Participants were postmenopausal women in the WHI-DM who comprised a 4.6% subsample completing 24-h dietary recalls (24HRs) at years 3 and 6 as part of trial adherence activities (n = 2159). Numbers of eating occasions per day were obtained from the year 3 24HRs, and participants were grouped into approximate tertiles as 1–3 (n = 795), 4 (n = 713), and ≥5 (n = 651) daily eating occasions as the exposure. Incident diabetes was self-reported on semiannual questionnaires as the outcome. ••Results Approximately 15% (15.4%, n = 332) of the WHI-DM 24HR cohort reported incident diabetes at follow-up. Cox proportional hazards regression tested associations of eating occasions with T2D adjusted for neighborhood socioeconomic status, BMI, waist circumference, race/ethnicity, family history of T2D, recreational physical activity, Healthy Eating Index-2005, 24HR energy intake, and WHI-DM arm. Compared with women reporting 1–3 meals/d, those consuming 4 meals/d had a T2D HR = 1.38 (95% CI: 1.03, 1.84) without further increases in risk for ≥5 meals/d. In stratified analyses, associations for 4 meals/d compared with 1–3 meals/d were stronger in women with BMI <30.0 kg/m2 (HR = 1.55; 95% CI: 1.00, 2.39) and women aged ≥60 (HR = 1.61; 95% CI: 1.11, 2.33). ••Conclusions Four meals per day compared with 1–3 meals/d was associated with increased risk of T2D in postmenopausal women, but no dose–response effect was observed for additional eating occasions. Further studies are needed to understand eating occasions in relation to T2D risk.Item Open Access Bibliography of works pertaining to the study of Targum.(https://www.scribd.com/document/218594955/Bib-Bibliography-of-Works-Pertaining-to-the-Study-of-Targumliography-of-Works-Pertaining-to-the-Study-of-Targum, 2001) Jassen, Alex; Angel, JosephItem Open Access Book endorsement of Menahem Y. Kahana’s Mipnei Tikkun HaOlam: Talmud Bavli Massekhet Gittin Perek Revi’i (Magnes Press).(Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), 2023-06-29) Carmy, ShalomBook endorsement of Rabbi Menahem Y. Kahan's 'Mipnei Tikkun Ha-Olam: Talmud Bavli Massekht Gittin Perek Revi'i.Item Open Access Boy on the Temple Roof.(Religion and Public Life, 2019-03) Carmy, ShalomItem Open Access Can we talk about Israel?(2024-05-06) Freedman, Jeffrey; Shaykevich, AaronProfessor Jeffrey Freedman discusses the need for reflection concerning the future of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and some humanitarian considerations to be made.Item Open Access Carmy, Shalom. Review of Leon Wiener Dow. The Going: A meditation on Jewish law. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, November 2017.(American Academy of Religion, 2018-05-18) Carmy, ShalomItem Metadata only A Carousel of Color: Polychromy and Jewish Visual culture in Roman Antiquity.(W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research ; YouTube) Fine, StevenFine's workshop at the Albright will focus on the Arch of Titus Project: "In recent years, polychromy has developed as a fruitful area of research in the study of classical art. This seminar explores the significance of color research for the interpretation of Jewish visual culture during Roman antiquity, through the focal lens of the Arch of Titus Project. In July 2012 our team discovered the original yellow ochre paint of the Arch menorah, and in 2017 we suggested a tentative color reconstruction of the entire spoils of Jerusalem relief panel. I will begin by discussing our coloration process and decisions, before widening the discussion to historiographic issues specific to the Jewish case. I will then turn to the next phase of this project, in which I focus on polychromy in late antique Jewish literature and art. I tentatively call this phase 'Colorful Rabbis: Polychromy and Judaism in Roman Antiquity.'"Item Metadata only Charge calibration standard for atomic force microscope tips in liquids(2020-11-17) Zypman, Fredy; Li, Li; Steinmetz, Nicole F.; Eppell, Steven J.; 0000-0002-2033-3772An electric charge standard with nanoscale resolution is created using the known charge distribution of a single tobacco mosaic virus coat protein combined with the known packing of these proteins in the virus capsid. This advances the ability to measure charge on nanometric samples. Experimental atomic force microscope (AFM) force-distance curves are collected under aqueous conditions with controlled pH and ion concentration. A mathematical model that considers a polarizable dielectric tip immersed in an electrolyte is used to obtain charge density from the AFM measurements. Interactions between the tip and the sample are modeled using theory that includes monopolar electrostatic interactions, dipolar interactions, screening from both the dielectric nature of ambient water and solvated ions as described by the linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, and hard-core repulsion. It is found that the tip charge density changes on a timescale of hours requiring recalibration of the tip for experiments lasting more than an hour. As an example of how a charge-calibrated tip may be used, the surface charge densities on 20 individual carboxylate-modified polystyrene (PS) beads are measured. The average of these AFM-measured bead charge densities is compared with the value obtained from conventional titration combined with electron microscopy. The two values are found to agree within 20%. While the comparison demonstrates similarity of the two charge measurements, hypotheses are put forward as to why the two techniques might be expected not to provide identical mean charge densities. The considerations used to build these hypotheses thus underscore the relevance of the method performed here if charge information is required on individual nanoparticles.Item Open Access Co-culture Activation of MAP Kinase in Drosophila S2 Cells.(Elsevier, 2017) Steinhauer, Josefa; 0000-0002-0960-5271Intercellular communication often involves phosphorylation of signal transduction proteins, including mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs). Immunological detection of phosphorylated MAPK can be used to monitor signaling in vivo, identify novel pathway components, and assess ligand activity. In this chapter, I describe a cell co-culture method to assess activity of cell-bound extracellular ligands that result in phosphorylation of the ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) MAPK in Drosophila. This protocol may be adaptable to other pathways and/or model systems.Item Open Access Combover interacts with the axonemal component Rsp3 and is required for Drosophila sperm individualization(Cambridge Eng : Company Of Biologists Limited, 2019) Steinhauer, Josefa; Statman, Benjamin; Fagan, Jeremy K.; Borck, Jacob; Surabhi, Satya; Yarikipati, Prathibha; Edelman, Daniel; Jenny, Andreas; 0000-0002-0960-5271Gamete formation is key to survival of higher organisms. In male animals, spermatogenesis gives rise to interconnected spermatids that differentiate and individualize into mature sperm, each tightly enclosed by a plasma membrane. In Drosophila melanogaster , individualization of sister spermatids requires the formation of specialized actin cones that synchronously move along the sperm tails, removing inter-spermatid bridges and most of the cytoplasm. Here, we show that Combover (Cmb), originally identified as an effector of planar cell polarity (PCP) under control of Rho kinase, is essential for sperm individualization. cmb mutants are male sterile, with actin cones that fail to move in a synchronized manner along the flagella, despite being correctly formed and polarized initially. These defects are germline autonomous, independent of PCP genes, and can be rescued by wild-type Cmb, but not by a version of Cmb in which known Rho kinase phosphorylation sites are mutated. Furthermore, Cmb binds to the axonemal component Radial spoke protein 3, knockdown of which causes similar individualization defects, suggesting that Cmb coordinates the individualization machinery with the microtubular axonemes.Item Open Access Constructing Fear and Pride in the Book of Daniel: The Profile of a Second Temple Emotional Community(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015) Mermelstein, Ari; 0000-0002-3572-9518This paper examines the seminal role that emotions, particularly fear and pride, play in the book of Daniel. Drawing upon the idea of "emotional communities," I view the book's final redactor as engaged with the views of one such community during the period of the Antiochan persecutions. The redactor's emotional community responded to the persecutions with fear, an emotion that he simultaneously validated and challenged. The emotions of pride and fear both reflect beliefs about one's power relative to others. The prideful kings portrayed in the book and the redactor's fearful emotional community shared what the redactor claimed were unwarranted beliefs about the relative power of each group. In order to jettison the fear of his community, the redactor first had to address the beliefs that supported that emotion. The book constitutes a sustained effort to construct an alternative emotional norm for members of the redactor's community by providing them with a new way of evaluating their situation: even if redemption has been delayed, faithful Jews who resist Antiochus to the point of martyrdom are in fact the powerful ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Item Open Access The dangers within: Fears of imprisonment in enlightenment France(Yeshiva University, 2021) Freedman, JeffreyThe histonan Jean Defumeau begins his classic study or fear in late-medieval and early modem Europe by citing Montaigne's description of arriving after nightfall in the town of Augsburg in 1580. To enter the town, Montaigne wrote, the traveler had to pass through a daunting series of protective barriers - hidden doors and iron gates that slammed shut behind him as he advanced; a drawbridge suspended above a moat; and several dark or dimly lit rooms. In the last of those rooms, a bronze vase hung from a chain. Into that vase the traveler deposited his travel money, which the town guard reeled in by pulling on the chain. If the amount was enough to satisfy the required entrance fee, the guard would activate one final door allowing the traveler to pass into the town; if it was not enough, the traveler would be condemned to spend the rest of the night confined in the room. That the citizens of Augsburg would erect so formidable a wall against the threat of external dangers testifies to the general atmosphere of insecurity prevailing at that time. It also provides Delumeau with the framing synecdoche for his study, that of the West as a "besieged fortress" (cité assiégée), a fear-ridden civilization struggling to defend itself against the multiple dangers that assailed it during the roughly three hundred years from the advent of the Black Death to the end of the age of religious wars.Item Open Access David's ancestry and the meaning of Ruth(Yeshiva University P ; Maggid, 2019) Carmy, Shalom; Halpern, Stuart W.This chapter explores King David's ancestry and the meaning of the Book of Ruth.====A wide-ranging collection of essays inspired by the Book of Ruth. In this volume, contemporary scholars, educators, and community leaders offer their readings of Ruth and insights into its themes, through the prisms of their respective academic interests and professional fields. The topics of these essays range from poetry to populism, social work to American history, elder care to conversion to contemporary immigration. -- Publisher's website.Item Open Access Diachronic change and synchronic readings: Midrashim on stative verbs and participles.(Oxford University Press, 2012-10) Koller, AaronBecause of the different verbal systems in the Hebrew of the Bible and the Hebrew of the Mishnah, reading the Bible as if written in Mishnaic Hebrew can produce interesting results. This paper analyses rabbinic comments on stative verbs and participles. The uses of both differ significantly in the Mishnah from the uses in the Bible. In the Mishnah, but not in the Bible, the participle participates in a full-blown tense system. Numerous midrashim rely on reading biblical participles as they would have been used in later Hebrew, as a present or future tense verb. Many verbs which were morphologically and syntactically stative in Biblical Hebrew have been ‘normalized’ by Mishnaic Hebrew, and this, too, created opportunities for midrash. In conclusion, the paper offers some thoughts on the rabbinic conceptions of language that allowed for such midrashim, suggesting that although the Rabbis were aware of diachronic linguistic change, they believed that multiple readings were simultaneously possible for the biblical text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]