Jewish American Flashcards
Language
English
Expressive language
Very expressive
Uses:
Hand gestures
Facial expressions
Humor
Judaic laws can do what
Lead to misinterpretation
What should you not do during prayer
Interupt
Space
Dont:
Shake hands
Enter personal space of opposite sex
Space with family while ill
Prefer to be surrounded by them
PDA
Highly discouraged even with wife and husband
Father while mom is in labor
Wont touch her
Only gives verbal support
Gender of provider
Same sex providers unless its and emergency
Type of families
Nuclear dyad usually until late adulthood
What is priority
Education and career over marriahe and starting a family
Jewish community
Various religions
From conservative to not
Time
Past, present, and future
How do they do with appointments?
Their typically punctual
Usually 10-15mins late to activites and social activies though
Diet
KOSHER
Prepare meat in a merciful manner by draining blood
-NO pork
-NO meat and milk together
-NO fish with hard shell
treatments allowed
Organ donations
Transpants
Transfusions
Mental and physical health
Important to overall wellbeing
Death
Eldest son or nearest relative close mouth and eyes
Orthodox jews and death
Place body on floor on straw mat with feet toward door
-face covered with a sheet
Practices may not be seen in hospital
Brit
Circumcision occurs 8 days after burth at home
Done by mohel (rabbi)
American jews illnesses
Stomach cancer
Female jews: breast cancer
Lactose intolerance
Even though they consume alot of dairy products
How do they view
Tattoos
Peircings
Drug use
Suicide
Scarification
Arnt permitted
Religious book
Torah
Do jews fast?
Yes
