at the
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, featuring a presentation by
two leading intellectuals on one of the most contentious and
perplexing issues in contemporary culture: Faith , Politics, and the
Jews: An Exchange Between Hillel Halkin and Anne Roiphe.

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----Press credentials are now available for the
Koret Jewish Book Awards ceremony Monday, April 11, 7 p.edu) or Vince McGourty , M+M Communications, Inc. For additional
information on HCD Research, access the company's web site at
www.

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The margin of error for the study was plus or minus 3% at a
95% level of confidence.
The responses were analyzed based on the religious affiliation."

The majority of all doctors (78 %) accept evolution rather than
reject it and, of those, Jews are most positive (94%),
Catholics are next (86%) followed by Protestants (59%). Founded in 1886 as a
rabbinical school , The Jewish Theological Seminary today is the
academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism worldwide,
encompassing a world-class library and five schools.jtsa. The company's services include
traditional and web-based marketing and communications research.

If your institution qualifies, please submit your institution for this category.

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Half of the doctors (50%) believe that schools should be
allowed (but not required) to teach intelligent design.net

The Finkelstein Institute provides a venue to advance dialogue at
the intersection of religion and public affairs .

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ADVISORY/Press Credentials Available for Koret Jewish Book Awards Ceremony

Halkin, an Israeli , is a distinguished translator and a frequent
contributor to Commentary and The New Republic.hcdi .

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Presentation of the awards will follow the program, with
presenters and recipients offering brief remarks. Not for publication.

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For credentials, please contact Susan Wolfe, Director of
Communications at Koret Foundation Funds, 415-882-7740 or
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Daniel E. JTS trains
tomorrow 's religious, educational, academic and lay leaders for the
Jewish community and beyond.

Yeshivas and Midrashot are not to be included here.

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More than half of Catholic doctors (62%) feel that schools
should be allowed (not required) to teach intelligent design,
conversely , more than half of Jewish doctors (59%) believe
that schools should be prohibited from teaching intelligent
design.net

Covers Colleges, Universities, and other centers of learning that provide an intensive, Jewish oriented course of learning.

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Roiphe, a well-known American novelist , wrote Secrets of the City and
the widely discussed, fictional exploration of American Jewish
Orthodoxy , Lovingkindness.

KORET JEWISH BOOK AWARDS -- PROGRAM SCHEDULE
APRIL 11, 2005, 7 P. Norton + Company) Novelist and essayist

History

Mothers and Children: Jewish Family
Life in Medieval Europe, Elisheva Carlebach , jury chair
Elisheva Baumgarten (Princeton Professor of History, Queens College
University Press) and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Philosophy and Thought

Wrestling with God and Men: Ellen M.
Among the findings:

When asked whether they agree more with intelligent design or
evolution, an overwhelming majority of Jewish doctors (88 %)
and more than half of Catholic doctors (60%) said they agree
more with evolution , while slightly more than half of
Protestants (54%) agree more with intelligent design.

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Umansky, jury chair
Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, Carl and Dorothy Bennett
Rabbi Steven Greenberg (University Professor of Judaic Studies,
of Wisconsin Press) Fairfield University

Translation

The Five Books of Moses, Robert Alter Steven J.
"As our earlier physician studies indicated, religion, culture and
ethnic heritage have an impact on their views of science, even from
this relatively homogenous group of physicians who share similar
education, income and social status," noted Glenn Kessler, co-founder
and managing partner, HCD Research.hcdi. HCD
Research is also the developer of readmylipz.

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Editors note: Credentialing information only. Koshland Professor of
Jewish Culture and History
Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish
Studies , Stanford University

Young Writer on Jewish Themes

Tim Bradford Alana Newhouse, jury chair
Arts + Culture Editor , Forward

CLOSING REMARKS

Tad Taube, President
Koret Foundation Funds

health care
system. Mittleman or Glenn Kessler, please contact Sherry
Kirschenbaum, JTS Director of Media Relations, at (212) 678-8953
(kirschenbaum@jtsa.

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Publishing Writers/Religion Writers/Assignment Desks/News Editors
ADVISORY.

Business Editors

NEW YORK----Results of a national
survey of 1,472 physicians revealed that more than half of physicians
(63%) agree that the theory of evolution is more correct than
intelligent design.

This may include Jewish studies programs at universities worldwide.

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The
majority of Jewish doctors (65%) agree more with the statement
that "humans evolved naturally with no supernatural
involvement."

"Sympathy for the idea of intelligent design comes primarily from
Protestant members of the medical community, although openness to
consideration of intelligent design as a legitimate speculation is
strong among Catholics but completely lacking among Jews," said Alan
Mittleman, director of the Finkelstein Institute.edu

HCD Research is a marketing and communications research company
headquartered in Flemington , NJ.

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He is the author of
Letters to an American Jewish Friend, and Across the Sabbath River.) Professor of Jewish History
University of California , Davis
Children's Literature

The Cats in Krasinski Square, Karen Hesse Roni Schotter, jury chair
Illustrated by Wendy Watson (Scholastic) Author, children's books

Fiction

The Persistence of Memory, Tony Eprile Daphne Merkin, judge
(W. The study was
conducted as part of a continuing investigation of the social,
political, and economic issues confronting the U.,
at (908) 638-5555 or (vinmcg@earthlink.

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Majority of Physicians Give the Nod to Evolution Over Intelligent Design

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than half of Protestant doctors (46%) believe that God
initiated and guided an evolutionary process, while 35%
believe that God created humans as they appear now.com, a political ad
testing web site for the 2004 Presidential campaign.

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The study was conducted by the Louis Finkelstein Institute for
Social and Religious Research at The Jewish Theological Seminary and
HCD Research in Flemington, New Jersey , from May 13-15.S.
To view detailed results for this poll, please go to:
http://www.

Your institution need not be accredited.

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A majority of Catholic doctors (67%) agree with the statement
that God initiated and guided an evolutionary process that has
led to current human beings , while 11% believe that "God
created humans exactly as they appear now.net/polls/J5776

Editors/Reporters: For more information on the poll, or to speak
with Dr.

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KANBAR HALL, JCCSF

PROGRAM

Faith, Politics, and the Jews: An Exchange Between Hillel Halkin and
Anne Roiphe

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS

Biography, Autobiography, and Literary Studies

A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz David Biale, jury chair
Translated from the Hebrew by Nicolas Emmanuel Ringelblum
de Lange (Harcourt, Inc.

When asked whether intelligent design has legitimacy as
science, an overwhelming majority of Jewish doctors (83%) and
half of Catholic doctors (51%) believe that intelligent design
is simply "a religiously inspired pseudo-science rather than
a legitimate scientific speculation ," while more than half of
Protestant doctors (63%) believe that intelligent design is a
"legitimate scientific speculation.

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