In summary, the inspection team praised the pastoral care system, the high academic achievements of all its pupils — irrespective of their age, aptitude or ability-and the happiness of the pupils.

People with a high inductive reasoning aptitude may be better at solving these puzzles than others.

His youthful interest in witchcraft and sorcery has endured into his adult life ; though his natural aptitude for it is only moderate ( much less than that of Willow ), he does have a high amount of magical knowledge.

Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty that resulted in large part from Summers's conflict with Cornel West, financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with Andrei Shleifer, and a 2005 speech in which he suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to a " different availability of aptitude at the high end ," and less to patterns of discrimination and socialization.

# Different availability of aptitude at the high end

The second hypothesis, different availability of aptitude at the high end, caused the most controversy.

Summers then concluded his discussion of the three hypotheses by saying: So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers ' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.

In high school, he excelled at science, math and computer courses, and displayed an aptitude for English and History.

At all universities of the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the students need to have a high score on an aptitude test that comprises logical and spatial thinking and text understanding skills.

In the context of an aptitude test the " high " and " low " scores are usually not far apart, because all ability test scores tend to be correlated.

Honor has a mental block regarding mathematics, despite her high intelligence and kinesthetic aptitude.

The non-commissioned officer in charge and his staff had to have a high aptitude for understanding and working with mechanical devices.

For example, for many years the Indian Air Force operated without a suitable advanced training aircraft, leading to a high casualty rate as pilots moved to high performance MiG 21 aircraft without suitable assessment of their aptitude for supersonic flight.

Since the foci of Drill are presentation and spatial precision, drillers do not necessarily need attributes typically ascribed to dancers, such as a high level of flexibility ( although this is a large portion of what many teams exhibit in their rouitines and part of their score ) or an aptitude for expressing emotions with the body.

Because of high scores on aptitude tests and background checks, he was provided with high-security clearances.

High standards of behavior and performance, as well as high aptitude, are expected.

Students with exceptionally high academic aptitude scores and excellent high school records are eligible to participate in the University ’ s Robert C. Weber Honors Program.

Franco developed an aptitude for art — painting in particular — during his high school years while attending the California State Summer School for the Arts ( CSSSA ).

He has great learning abilities and a high aptitude in philosophy, and has been described as having an eidetic memory.

Since the aptitude tests involved, and the high school diploma requirement, were broad-based and not directly related to the jobs performed, Duke Power's employee transfer procedure was found by the Court to be in violation of the Act.

Studying The Merchant Of Venice in high school and college has given many young people their notions about Jews.

One of the reasons for the high percentage of Jewish teen-agers in college is that a great many urban Jews are enabled to attend local colleges at modest cost.

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

In earlier days, when Jews had a functioning court system ( the beth din and the Sanhedrin high court ), courts were empowered to administer physical punishments for various violations, upon conviction by far stricter standards of evidence than are acceptable in courts in modern democracies: execution, corporal punishment, incarceration, excommunication.

* Massive immigration wave of Jews from the Commonwealth of Independent States to Israel – With the end of the Soviet Union, Israel faced a mass influx of Russian Jews, many of whom had high expectations the country was unable to meet.

Josephus mentions Jews of high rank who were crucified, but this was to point out that their status had been taken away from them.

With these in place, the communities were able to grow and flourish, both because of an extremely high birthrate ( eight or more children is normal ), and because of outreach programs geared toward other Jews.

Tolerance was extended to non-Muslims such as Christians, and Jews, who occupied high levels in government based on ability, and tolerance was set into place to ensure the flow of money from all those who were non-Muslims too in order to finance the Fatimids Caliphs ' large army of Mamluks brought in from Circassia by Genoese merchants.

Ashkenazi Jews have a high incidence of Tay – Sachs and other lipid storage diseases.

Several Jews, including Theodore, a rich representative Jew who stood high in the estimation of his coreligionists and of Christians alike, underwent baptism.

At the age of 13, his mother tried to enroll him in a Russian high school, and he recalled, " But in that school, they don't take Jews.

His partiality for the latter rendered him unpopular amongst his own subjects, and the capricious manner in which he appointed and deposed the high priests made him disliked by the Jews.

It is much more likely that Saul had no official high priest after this incident until the end of his reign ( see Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, Book VI, Chapter XII, Paragraph 7.

The first surviving historical mention of the Pharisees is from the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus ( 37 – 100 CE ), in a description of the " four schools of thought ," or " four sects ," into which the Jews were divided in the 1st century CE ; the other schools were the Essenes, who were generally apolitical and who may have emerged as a sect of dissident priests who rejected either the Seleucid-appointed or the Hasmonean high priests as illegitimate ; the Sadducees, who were the main antagonists of the Pharisees ; and the " fourth philosophy " possibly associated with the anti-Roman revolutionary groups such as the Sicarii and the Zealots.

Conservative Judaism has issued an emergency takanah ( rabbinical edict ) temporarily suspending the application of the rules in their entirety, on the grounds that the high intermarriage rate threatens the survival of Judaism, and hence that any marriage between Jews is welcomed.

He appointed Jonathan Maccabaeus, the brother and successor of Judas Maccabaeus, as the high priest of Judea, in order to make the Jews his allies.

The fact that we found this marker in such high concentrations in one of the Lemba subclans, the Buba — much higher, incidentally, than the general Lemba population — seemed finally to provide a real, usable link between the Lemba and Jews.

* That Jewish Messianic expectation was extremely high in those times, matched to the despair caused by the Roman occupation of the land, and by their subjugation of the Jews.

When the high priest of Jerusalem murdered his brother Johannes in the temple, Bagoas ( who had supported Johannes ) put a new tax on the Jews and entered the temple, saying that he was purer than the murderer who performed the priestly office ( Joseph.

Teaneck, and the neighboring communities of Bergenfield and New Milford, has drawn a large number of Modern Orthodox Jews who have established at least fourteen synagogues and four yeshivas ( three high schools and one for young men ).

* " Analysis of genetic variation in Ashkenazi Jews by high density SNP genotyping "

Today there are around 12, 000 Jews in Spain and 2, 500 in Portugal ( although it must be taken into account that, when expelled from Portugal, Jews were allowed to stay if they converted to Christianity, resulting in a high percentage being assimilated in the Portuguese population.

Here two characteristics are manifest: in general, Modern Orthodoxy places a high national, as well as religious, significance on the State of Israel, and institutions and individuals are, typically, Zionist in orientation ; relatedly, involvement with non-orthodox Jews will extend beyond " outreach " to include institutional relations and cooperation ; see further under Torah Umadda.