TY - JOUR A1 - Voolen, Edward van T1 - Interfaith families BT - a Jewish perspective JF - European Judaism : a journal for the new Europe N2 - In an open, secular society, young people encounter one another outside the traditional framework of their respective religions. This article describes a Jewish approach to the issues and possibilities that arise when an interfaith marriage is contemplated. The perspective is that of a rabbi working from a progressive Jewish position, given the particular concerns of post-war European Jewish communities. What kind of ceremony might be appropriate? What thought should be given from the beginning to the religious education and identification of future children? KW - European Jewish communities KW - interfaith marriage KW - Jewish-Christian KW - relations KW - new religious rituals KW - post-war KW - religious conversion Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2020.530110 SN - 0014-3006 SN - 1752-2323 VL - 53 IS - 1 SP - 75 EP - 80 PB - Berghahn CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Does it pay to be one of the oldest in class? BT - Relative age effects on academic self-concept, peer relations, and teacher judgments in German primary schools JF - Learning and instruction : the journal of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction N2 - Several studies have revealed that older students in a year group reach higher achievement scores than younger students in that group. But less is known about how students' relative age in class relates to their self-perception of academic achievement, their social acceptance in class and to how teachers judge their abilities. Therefore, we examined relative age effects within class on students' academic self-concept, peer relations, grades, and teachers' secondary school recommendation. Analyses were based on a sample of N = 18,956 German fourth graders, who had never been retained or accelerated. We applied multilevel regression to control for covariates at the individual and classroom level. There were no substantial relative age effects within class across any of the outcomes, except for a small advantage for the youngest in their reading self-concept. Our findings therefore contradict the common assumption that younger students in class are disadvantaged compared to their older classmates. KW - Relative age effects KW - Month of birth KW - Academic self-concept KW - Peer KW - relations KW - Teacher judgments Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101463 SN - 0959-4752 SN - 1873-3263 VL - 74 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -