Amy Zitelman response to Julie Nemeth

The beginning of the lecture was really interesting.  I think it is important for people to understand the psychology behind what makes people or act the way they do.  College students are a crucial age to study.  The idea of attachment and separation in college students is significant and very interesting.

However, I do not understand why she thought that Jewish college students would be any different.  I once did a project for a Jewish History class in High School.  The project focused on immigrant generations and assimilation.  First generation Americans (most of our parents, for argument sake) are highly assimilated.  They assimilate as to escape the 'foreignness' of their parents who are immigrants.  Therefore, most of our parents raised us just as any American parents would.  Hence, there shouldn't be much difference between Jewish college students' relationships with their parents and other American college students.

I'm not really sure what else to say about this lecture due to the fact that there was not much talked about.  Everything she hypothesized turned out to be true.  And there was not much substance on the difference between Jews and non-Jews.  

I would have liked her to go into a bit more details about the fact that girls who are culturally Jewish have more self confidence and self esteem than Jews who are religiously Jewish.  This is an interesting and troubling statement.  I'm not really sure what I think about this subject other than believing that it is true.