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In their thought-provoking commentary, Cardenas-Comfort and Majumder (p. 1687) have argued for the merits entailed in state laws that are designed to increase the adherence to vaccination policy through transparent reporting of vaccination rates per school. The authors essentially claim that such laws are particularly valuable against the backdrop of an increasing parental exemption rate from vaccination, while being perfectly aligned with key principles ofmedical ethics such as autonomy and social justice.1,2 However, it seems that although mandatory school reporting of vaccination rates may offer a good solution to this concern, such measures might also involve less desirable ramifications from an ethical perspective. I seek to illuminate these less desirable ramifications, namely, to stress that along the \"good\" entailed in these laws, they also may result in \"bad\" and even \"ugly\" ramifications.

Background/Objectives: Despite growing interest in giftedness, the differences in daily participation between gifted and typically developing children remain understudied and insufficiently understood. Exploring these differences may provide valuable insights into the unique needs and support required for gifted children compared to their typically developing peers. This comparative exploratory study aims to examine the differences between gifted and typically developing children’s daily participation patterns in home, school, and community environments and their parents’ perspectives and explore underlying developmental characteristics that may predict their participation. Methods: Parents of 215 children (8–18 years; 53% boys) in a gifted group (n = 136) and a matched typically developing children group (n = 79) completed the Five-to-Fifteen-revised questionnaire and the Child and Adolescent Scale of Participation. Results: We found no significant between-group differences in daily participation. However, we noted significant correlations in each group between the questionnaires’ participation domains (r = −0.243 to −0.460 in the gifted group, and r = −0.57 to −0.78 in the typically developing children group). Social and memory skills predicted 24% of the gifted children’s participation, and social and mental skills predicted 65% of the typically developing children’s participation. Conclusions: The results indicate similar participation patterns of gifted children and typically developing children. Social skills are a key element enabling daily participation among children in both groups.

Hannah Helena Thon (1886–1954) was born in Germany and settled in Palestine in the early 1920s. She was a pioneer social worker, an activist in women's organizations, a journalist, commentator, and lecturer. Thon's widely disseminated lectures and writings in the Hebrew press won her esteem and influence as an authority on the economic, social, and cultural characteristics of Mizrahi Jews. My analysis of her views is based on her archived articles and private papers, and sheds light on the perception of Mizrahi Jews among Ashkenazi Jews in the Yishuv and its effect the socialethnic gap.

Ida Wissotzky is among the nurses who made important but often overlooked contributions to the development of Israel's healthcare sector in the pre-state and early state years. Apart from her leadership roles in the young country's emergent hospital system, her career including working with Jewish refugees in British internment camps in Cyprus after the Holocaust, caring for wounded soldiers during and after the 1948 war, and supervising the care of new immigrants in Israel's absorption camps. This article describes some of the most important junctures in Israel's nursing history, from the last decade of the British Mandate in Palestine through the early decades of the State of Israel, as they were experienced by one determined and compassionate woman who aspired to combine pioneering nursing work with involvement in the political and ideological struggles of the nation-building years. It thereby contributes to a better understanding of women's impact on the development of nursing in Israel.

Dreams of good food, writes Aaron Bobrow-Strain, are powerful social forces, which \"arise out of particular constellations of power and interests that can be analyzed and understood.\" This article focuses on a specific food item--Vitamin Bread (lehem hai), developed by Moshe Wilbushewich in 1920s Palestine--as embodying notions of \"good food\" premised on the tenets of rational nutrition. I show how the development of the bread was informed not only by a nutritional discourse, which counted energy units and analyzed nutrients, but also by a colonial discourse about Jewish and Arab physical and mental difference, about the role of science in colonization, and by the interests of Jewish settlement. For its inventor, Vitamin Bread embodied the attempt to compensate for the physical inferiority of civilized Jewish settlers compared to indigenous Arabs by means of their intellectual advantage, namely, by recruiting science in the service of improving Jewish nutrition.

The inauguration of the Hadassah University Medical Center in 1939 was a milestone in the activities of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America in Eretz Israel. Until that point, the organization had focused on developing and providing curative and preventative health and social care in Palestine. The establishment of a modern medical center, incorporating nursing and medical schools, changed the organization's objectives to include medical and scientific research. The building was designed by renowned architect Erich Mendelsohn and became not only one of his most celebrated successes but also an outstanding example of pre-state Israeli architecture. This article examines the influence of Hadassah's mission and vision on the outcome of the building. What cultural and ideological values were manifested in the architecture of this hospital, built in pre-state Israel by a group of American Jewish Zionist women?

Despite some phenomenal material from the most important collections that deal with the themes covered by the exhibition -- including Case Western Reserve University, the American Jewish Archives, the Leon Simon Archive, and the Wende Museum -- weaving it into a comprehensive, cohesive narrative was a challenge. Under the leadership of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who declared “there is no inconsistency between loyalty to America and loyalty to Jewry[;] [t]he Jewish spirit, the product of our religion and experiences, is essentially modern and essentially American,” the Zionist Organization of America grew in strength and numbers, as did Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, led by Henrietta Szold. [...]two keys to a successful history exhibit are consensus and support. 1917:

In February 1943, several hundred Polish Jewish refugee children who had escaped the Holocaust in Europe and sojourned for several months in Tehran arrived in Palestine. The arrival of these “Tehran children” triggered bitter debates in the Yishuv, causing particularly caustic political fights between the two major Orthodox political movements, Agudat Yisrael and Mizrahi. These clashes provide a valuable lens onto the transition of the center of traditionalist Jewry from prewar east-central Europe to pre-state Palestine and the transformation of Orthodox politics in accordance with radically changed postwar realities and the establishment of a Jewish state. Against this backdrop, this article uses the episode to trace some of the broader developments in Orthodox politics during the first half of the twentieth century and their impact on the emergence of two distinct Israeli milieus: ultra-Orthodoxy and national-religious Judaism.