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Global Anti-Semitism?
Last May, the Anti-Defamation League made the startling pronouncement that one-quarter of the world’s population is anti-Semitic. The source for that charge was the ADL Global 100: An Index...
The Decline and Rise
of Secular Judaism
In his 1782 book Letters from an American Farmer, John de Crèvecœur asked the most famous and important question in Americanhistory: “What then is the American, this new man?”...
The Crisis of Conservative Judaism
The institutions of Conservative Judaism—its synagogues, its summer camps, its youth organizations, its sisterhoods and men’s organizations, its seminaries, its rabbinate—will live on. Conservative Judaism as a movement, defined...
New York Kippah Count
Jews have been counting themselves since the time of Moses. The Bible provided an exact figure of the number of adult male Jews who left Egypt, and while traveling...
Is the Left Good for Jews?
Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Libertiesby stuart svonkincolumbia university press, 364 pages, $32.50 The political behavior of American Jews has long been puzzling to...
Blacks and Jews Entangled
In her 1991 autobiography, Deborah, Golda, and Me , Letty Cottin Pogrebin argued that black-Jewish relationships rested on a common history of oppression. “Both blacks and Jews have known...
We Are Many
A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America by jack wertheimer basic books, 267 pages, $25 The slogan of the United Jewish Appeal, the most successful of all of America’s...
The 1960s Revisited
The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon Free Press, 370 pages, $24.95 In November 1969, Hillel Levine, a...
