“There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to be distancing themselves from Israel”
There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to...
Category Archives: Jews in America
“I’m tired of the reduction of Jewish journalism to a celebration of ethnic tics”
The most important subject facing the American Jewish community is the new financial and...
“Jewish security in America is strong, and is likely to remain so…”
America in 2016 is a country in which we make a distinction between whatever...
“The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too many Jews, support for Israel became a vicarious faith…”
The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too...
“Dangerous myths have grown up among the American Jewish community, myths that are totally detached from the reality in Israel…”
Dangerous myths have grown up among the American Jewish community, myths that are totally...
“Many American Jews have a strange relationship with Israel”
Many American Jews have a strange relationship with Israel. For years they created a...
“While the Internet has become a global phenomenon, the American Jewish community is specifically finding its own ways to interact with technology in order to gain access to people and ideas beyond a local region”
When one thinks about Judaism, the computer does not come to the forefront of...
“The history of the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ is, of course, much more complicated than the narrative evoked by the march in Selma, and its ambiguities provide some helpful context for the current controversy”
Tensions between Jewish liberals and black radicals are, of course, not new. It was...
“A new infusion of an invigorated Modern Orthodoxy that meets the best intellectual, moral and spiritual standards of postmodern culture is a critical ingredient for the strengthening of the center of affiliated Jewry”
Modern Orthodox professionals have played a key role in the revitalization of American Jewry...
“Far too many young Jews…are terribly ignorant of even the basics, with little to zero knowledge of Hebrew or of Jewish and Israeli history”
….young Americans need a Jewish education. And here, U.S. Jewish leaders and their organizations...