Every year, diverse Jewish communities around the world observe Tashlich (casting off), a customary atonement ritual performed day after Rosh Hashanah. This performative is conducted next to body of water symbolize and purification one’s sins. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in two egalitarian congregations Tel Aviv New York City, I show how performance constructed as political act ...

a bstract    background: one of the acutely fatal and prevalent crises in all societies is acute spinal cord injury. individuals with a spinal cord injury are prone to numerous challenges, perturbation, and acute mental distresses. one of their concerns, often expressed generally and in the form of a complaint, is how people deal with them.  the present study aims to analyze the experiences and...

The article explores the roles of historical gardens in Western cinema. A garden can make a location (Versailles), mimic another (Vaux-le-Vicomte as Chantilly Vatel), embody national way life (gardens National Trust 1995 TV series Pride and Prejudice), or be an abstract, to greater lesser extent, setting. In Atonement, becomes symbol, films about space (Silent Running) inner world metaphysics (...

background: confrontation with the consequences of diabetes causes a crisis in physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions. sometimes the spiritual crisis can be tremendous. since spiritual health coordinates different aspects of human life, this study aimed to identify the spiritual health of patients with defects caused by diabetes. materials and methods: this was a qualitative-phenomenologica...