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Please join us for our Annual Meeting
with Guest Speaker
Professor Bethamie Horowitz
A Portrait of Jewish Americans:
What did the Pew Study Really Say?
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM
Kurt & Tessye Simon Community Building
3202 Shalom Way * South Bend, IN
RSVP Requested. Please call 574-233-1164
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Professor Bethamie Horowitz, a socio-psychologist, joined the faculty of NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development in 2007 to work with the doctoral program in Education and Jewish Studies. Bethamie came to NYU after two decades of directing research in a variety of applied contexts in the USA and in Israel. She served as Research Director at UJA-Federation of NY in the 1990s where she designed and conducted the 1991 NY Jewish Population Study, and subsequently developed the groundbreaking Connections and Journeys Study documenting patterns of Jewish engagement among baby boomer and younger American Jews. From 2000-2007 she directed research at the Mandel Foundation Israel, where she studied the careers of graduates of the school.
The theme of lives over time continues to fascinate her. She has been tracking a cohort of post-college "emerging adults" over the past eight years to see the interaction between professional choices and their connections to their religious traditions. From 2004-2007 she wrote the monthly "Trend Spotting" column in The Forward about emerging sociological developments relevant to the Jewish community. She began her research career more than 30 years ago focusing on conflict resolution and images of war and peace in the Middle East, and in 1988 she conducted nightly polling of the Israeli electorate as part of the Labour Party's research team.
She received her A.B. from Harvard University in anthropology and her Ph.D. from The CUNY Graduate Center in socio-psychology.
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