From the Editor's Desk

This, the latest issue of Kaveret, the journal of the Department of Behavioral Sciences, The College of Management, discusses Parenting. It continues our tradition of dedicating each of the journal's issues to one in a chain of concepts, as explored in previous issues: Love (No. 1, January 2000), Leadership (No. 2, March 2001), Freedom (No. 3, June 2001), Justice (No. 4, January 2002), Happiness (No. 5, June 2002), Beauty (No. 6, January 2003), Desire (No 7, June 2003), Truth (No. 8, January 2004), Self-Sacrifice (No. 9, July 2004), Peace (No. 10, February 2005), Identity (No. 11, August 2005), Evil (No. 12, February 2006), Revolution (No. 13, July 2006), Hypocrisy (No. 14, March 2007), Sexuality (No. 15, Duly 2007) and Disappointment (No. 16, July 2008). Parenting is a role that parents fulfiLl for most of their lives. It embraces a wide range of phenomena open to analysis: style-from liberal to authoritarian, quality-from nurturing to inhibiting, character-from supportive to alienating. Considering its complexity and duration, how do parents construct their parenting style, its character and quality? This is a question for which psychological, sociological, pedagogical and philosophical theories have yet to find an answer that can withstand the test of practice. As a rule, we learn and internalize what we believe to be parenting from the parenting we received as children, which we then adapt to our own individual styles and personalities. Because parenting has such a substantial effect on the next generation's development, it is definitely a topic worthy of greater guidance and study in individual and group contexts. Like the other multidimensional concepts we have discussed, Kaveret approaches parenting from numerous perspectives. The first four articles (1-4) provide philosophical, sociological and pedagogic views. The next two (6-7) explore parenting as it appears in Judaism. Parenting from artistic and literary perspectives is then treated in four articles (8-11) whereas parenting under unusual circumstances is treated in the following four (13-16). Creative works on parenting are found in two poems (5,12) and three short stories (17-19). This edition closes with the publication of three reader responses to the article by Mordechai Rimor published in Kaveret Ho. 16, as well as his rejoinder. A reader response to the article by David Hashavit in that same issue also appears, together with the author's rejoinder. Each article on parenting follows the four principles of the Kaveret credo: Consideration of the concept (one per issue) is to be as comprehensive as feasible, touching on diverse points of view: philosophical, psychological, sociological, economic, religious, literary and artistic (short stories, verse and drawing). The discussion is to range from the general to the particular, from macro-level issues focused on society to micro-level issues focused on individuals, their thoughts, feelings, disappointments and hopes. Contributors can be students, graduates, teaching assistance and lecturers from the Academic Studies Division as well as other institutions. The format is to be compact, focused and aimed at as broad an audience as possible. The next edition (no. 18) of Kaveret, to be published n February 2010, will deal with the subject of Humor. We will accept (following review) manuscripts and original works not exceeding 2000 words in length, accompanied by a 30-word abstract and up to 6 complete bibliographical references (author, title, year of publication, city and publisher or journal volume and issue numbers), written in the spirit of the Kaveret credo. We will also be happy to accept responses to earlier issues. All manuscripts are to be submitted no Later than 15 December 2009.

Apology

Subsequent to our publication of an article written by Rahamim Avraham ("Sexual Deviance in Jewish Thought", Kaveret No. 15), Mr. Uri Paz turned to the Academic Studies Division while arguing that he has a copyright on one of the paragraphs/citations found in the said article, and that the reference provided was incorrect. Even though the Academic Studies Division is responsible neither for the references nor the content of the articles and other materials published in this journal, we wish to apologize if, as Mr. Paz claims, we caused an infringement of his copyright. We also greatly regret if an error was made in the reference. We would like to turn our reader's attention to Mr. Paz's article, "Homosexuality in Ultra-Orthodox Judaism," which appears on his website "Puzzle", http://www.notes.co.il/uripaz/.

Dr. Rachel Pasternak

Editor-in-Chief Department of Behavioral Sciences

Academic Studies Division

The College of Management