 6,400,000
Jewish people live in America
 6,141,325 of these people go to church
regularly
 Orthodox Jews are about 7%
 Reform Jews are about 42%
 Conservative Jews are about 20%
 Hasidic Jews are about 1%
 Non-practicing Jews are about 25-30%
 Ethnic
Group verses Religious Group
 Religious Worship
 Jewish Tradition
 Orthodox
Jews
 Conservative
 Reform
Jews
Jews
 The
national average for college or
postgraduate education is 59 %for Jews.
 People of age 50 years and older are
about 51 %.
 Reform
Jews earning over $100,000 per
year are about 55 %.
 Ritual
Circumcision
 Nutrition
 Physician-Assisted
Suicide
 Possibility
of damage
in the form of death,
blood loss and
infection.
 In the United States
Death Rate is 9.01 per
.10 million.
 In New York 11 cases
of herpes due to
unsterile equipment.
 Jewish
physicians are
far most likely to be
willing to provide
help than the
Catholic physicians.
 High
Fat Foods
 Fasting
 High
Rituals
salt use, causes Hypertension
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Leininger’s Culture Care Theory
Culture is sum of learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs
,norms, and life ways of a specific individual or group that guide
their thinking, decisions, actions, and patterned ways of living.
Cultural Care: Different dimensions of culture which have an impact
and guide an individual or group in making their human condition
better or to tackle the situation of illness or death.
Cultural care diversity: The differences in meanings, values, or
acceptable modes of care within or between different groups of
people.
 Modesty
is a cultural concern
 Kosher
dietary customs
 Dignity
of the human body
 The
Jewish Sabbath
 Leininger’s
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Culture Care Theory as a tool
for Cultural Competence
The basics of families are same as of
religious family even if the Jews living in
America are not very much religious.
Jews believe in combine family system
and following the customs and traditions.
Some Jewish beliefs may be contrary to
the hospital policies.
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Ray Boyd. Circumcision Exposed: Rethinking a Medical and Cultural Tradition.
Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1998.
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Cassar, L. (2006). Cultural expectations of Muslim and Orthodox Jews in regards to
pregnancy and the postpartum period. International Journal of Childbirth Education
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Elliot Essman 2010 Life in the USA Religion in America The Jews
www.lifeintheusa.com/religion/jews.htm
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Hofman, Ethel “ Low-Fat & Kosher It's strictly buyer beware...” Baltimore Jewish
Times (1996) Dec 27
Most Jewish ethicists relieved by high court.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency (1997) Jun
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Larson, David ; Milano, Mary Greenwold and Constance Barry. “ Religion the
forgotten factor in health care.” Vol. 11, 02 Ed., The World & I (1996) Feb 1, pp. 292.
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L'Archevesque, Claire Irene; Goldstein-Lohman, Helene. “Ritual circumcision
educating parents.” Vol. 22, Pediatric Nursing (1996) May 15 , pp. 228(6).
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WALLENSTEIN, PH.D., TIMOTHY QUILL, M.D.,R. SEAN MORRISON,
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World Jewish Population, Fact Sheet, 2008
www.simpletoremember.com/.../world-jewish-population.htm