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Answer One (1) of the following in a well written and organized essay.   A. Discuss the reasons why the Jews of the Ship Ste. Catherine asked to settle in New Amsterdam in 1654. What wwere the Governor of New Amsterdam’s arguments for trying to refuse their request? Why was he overruled bt the Directors of the Dutch West India Company?                                                             OR B. Assimilation Versus Self Identity has been a problem for the Jews in America particularly in the Early period of American History. Discuss two cases where Jews had to lose or gave up their identities as Jews in order to advance themselves in America and Discuss two cases where Jews refused to give up their Jewishness even if it meant material economic or social loss.

Two early settlers in New Amsterdam ( New York ) who demanded their right to defend their colony as other citizens did were

Answer One (1) of the following in a well written and organized essay.   A. Discuss the reasons why the Jews of the Ship Ste. Catherine asked to settle in New Amsterdam in 1654. What wwere the Governor of New Amsterdam’s arguments for trying to refuse their request? Why was he overruled bt the Directors of the Dutch West India Company?                                                             OR B. Assimilation Versus Self Identity has been a problem for the Jews in America particularly in the Early period of American History. Discuss two cases where Jews had to lose or gave up their identities as Jews in order to advance themselves in America and Discuss two cases where Jews refused to give up their Jewishness even if it meant material economic or social loss.

The American Jewess Poetess who wrote the lines“Give me your tired, your poor” was

The Pittsburgh Platform was the

  The State Department official  mostly responsible for delaying and denying Jewish immigration to the United States during World War II was

The editor of the Yiddish daily “The Forward” was

A 25 year-old male is 20 weeks after ACL reconstruction. He initially injured his knee landing from a jump while playing basketball. During hop testing for clearance to return to sports, he states that he is hesitant to do a maximal jump because he is afraid he might re-injure his knee. What questionnaire would best quantify the psychosocial construct associated with this behavior?

The oldest existing Synagogue building in the Western Hemisphere is found in

 President Truman’s friend and former business partner who convinced him to help the establishment of  the State of Israel in 1947-48 was