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On Israel-Palestine, Biden Is Not Just Another Version of Obama
Published in Haaretz Many in Israel are expressing concern that the administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be a repeat of the Obama administration. But Biden is not Barack Obama and 2021 is not 2009. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are traditional Democrats, with a fundamental commitment to Israel whose roots are in part emotional in nature (in contrast…
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Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Israel-Diaspora Relations and the Pew Report
The depth and quality of relations between Israeli and Diaspora Jews are perennially on the public agenda. The new Pew report, Jewish Americans in 2020, provides insight into our current point in time. It allows us to examine whether and how relations between the two largest Jewish communities – in Israel and the United States – are in a state…
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
One, Two, or Three Jewish Identities among Jewish Americans?
[caption id="attachment_4303" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Credit: pio3/Shutterstock.com[/caption] The recently published Pew report, Jewish Americans in 2020, points to a somewhat disturbing reality within US Jewry: two polar opposite forms of being Jewish and of Jewish identity are growing on the margins of the Jewish community. These forms are especially growing in the younger age cohorts, and they are becoming increasingly significant.…
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The Jewish Camp of the Nine Percent
The Pew Research Center's new study of American Jews offers a wealth of data. Some of its findings are headline-making and can be expected to dominate the news, while others are more obscure. It is often the more obscure information that is truly important and interesting. Here I suggest examining one particular finding. The researchers examined the degree of connection…
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Raising Jewish Children: Research and Indications for Intervention
Family, Engagement, and Jewish Continuity among American Jews Sylvia Barack Fishman and Steven M. Cohen Learning Jewishness, Jewish Education, and Jewish Identity Sylvia Barack Fishman and Shlomo Fischer Contributors: Rachel S. Bernstein, Dov Maimon and Shmuel Rosner
In the Media
In the Media
Global Jewish Population Almost as Big as Before the Holocaust
By Lucy Draper, Newsweek The global Jewish population has grown to almost the same size as before the Holocaust according to a new report which was presented to the Israeli cabinet yesterday. Independent think tank the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) has published new figures revealing that the world's Jewish population now stands at 14.2 million. However, when it factored…
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Implications of the Pew Report
The October 2013 Pew report and other studies raise major questions as to whether this pattern of activity can continue, at least in its current form. These questions are less concerned with the concrete attitudes and positions the Jewish leadership and the Jewish community are currently advocating, and more concerned with the type of Jewish identity that underpins such advocacy…
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‘Jews Not by Religion’
- Jews "not by religion" are much less likely to pass on Jewishness to the next generation - Jews "not by religion" are not "cultural" Jews, they are disconnected Jews - The Jewish community must decide how much to invest in them vs. other priorities - The alternatives for action are basically three: 1. Write them off (but this means…
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Who are the “Jews by Religion” in the Pew Report?
Originally posted in The Times of Israel, by Dr. Shlomo Fischer, November 18 Since its publication on October 1, 2013, the Pew report, A Portrait of Jewish Americans, has generated copious commentary and debate, mainly around its findings concerning the more than one million “Jews of no religion.” I suggest that much of the commentary reflects a misunderstanding about the meaning of…
