Jews, Muslims, and MUlticultural Counseling

Jews and Muslims represent 2 unique cultural groups that have been rela tiveiy under-examined by multicuitural counseling scholars. In this article, the authors review the recent literature on Jews and Muslims, synthesize and discuss the commonalities across these 2 groups, provide some rec ommendations for counseling members of these populations, and offer suggestions for future research. Since Pedersen's (1991) articulation of multiculturalism as a generic form of counseling, there has been an explosion of research on cultural and diversity issues. During the same time period, however, there has been much less scholarship focused on religious diversity in general (Schlosser, Foley, Poltrock, & Holmwood, in press) and on Jews and Muslims in pa