American Jewry S Comfort Level Present and Future, 2010

Reconstruction, 2003

“Painting a New Picture of American Jewry.” A Portrait of the American Jewish Community. (Norman Linzer, et al.) Reconstruction (Fall 2003): Vol. 3, No. 4. http://reconstruction.eserver.org/BReviews/revPortaitAm.html. [site no longer functional]

Modern Judaism, 2000

The American Jewish community is frequently portrayed as a consensus community, in which virtually no serious conflict exists. There is much truth to this characterization. As Daniel J. Elazar suggests with reference to the oligarchical but, nevertheless, representative character of the leadership of American Jewry: "They are representative because there is a certain sameness in American Jewry." ^ Some of the reasons for this characteristic may be rooted in the minority experience of American Jewry; others may be traced to what Peter Y. Medding refers to as the "decline in authentic Jewish values";^ and still others to American society and culture themselves, which as early an observer as Alexis de Tocqueville considered to be essentially homogeneous.® Be that as it may, this characterization is somewhat misleading in that it tends to minimize the multitude of sources of serious conflict within the American Jewish community in recent years. This article will explore what appear to have been the most significant issues of conflict which have challenged the organized American Jewish community since the beginning of the 1970s, and the ways in which the community has dealt with them. Nevertheless, as will be indicated, the strategies adopted for dealing with these challenges have enabled the American Jewish community to retain its essentially consensual character, even in the face of conflict. During the second half of the 1970s there were a number of disparate groups, ranging from Jewish student activists to Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, who decried the nature of American Jewish

This article addresses the issue of how the "Jewishness" of Jewish communal social service institutions such as hospitals and senior citizen centers can be gauged in a time of social and cultural transition for the North American Jewish community. In previous generations, such organizations were served and staffed almost exclusively by Jews. However, today such institutions frequently serve significant numbers of gentiles. This article argues that such service is in accord with the highest standards of Jewish religious tradition and represents the fulfillment of the Jewish obligation to engage in the act of Kiddush Hashem, the sanctification of the Divine Name in the world.

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American Jewish History, 2004

Choice Reviews Online, 2009

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Springer eBooks, 2022

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