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Israel is integrated into Diaspora life as never before, but for some Jews the distance is growing.
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June 2009 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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"Big-tent" inclusiveness has brought success to the largest denomination of American Jews; the future looks less certain.
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June 2008 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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As the movement’s tent grows ever more accommodating, fewer seem interested in filling it.
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September 2007 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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The sense of collective identity is fast fading; without it, the center cannot hold.
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June 2006 |
Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer |
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Can a demographic disaster be halted and, if so, how?
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October 2005 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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Communal defense organizations are fighting the wrong battles at the wrong time in the wrong way.
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October 2004 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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Supply is down, demand is up, discontent affects both clergy and laity; in short, this is a good moment for reform.
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May 2003 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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Once taboo among American Jews, exogamy is now not only commonplace but widely--and self-destructively--accommodated.
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March 2001 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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At stake is the survival of a beneficent revolution that has transformed religious education.
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December 1999 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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An increasingly vital religious force, America's most observant Jews are also increasingly divided, among themselves and from their fellow Jews.
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February 1999 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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When it comes to the subject of Israel, the community exudes an unseemly sourness--testimony to the return of "indifferentism," and worse.
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May 1998 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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Once praised as a model for all Americans, a community's philanthropic structure is under threat of dissolution.
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December 1997 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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Anarchy is increasingly the condition of a community unable to say who belongs to it or what its faith minimally consists of.
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July 1997 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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Whatever else American Jews may believe in, it is doubtful the majority of them believe in Judaism.
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August 1996 |
David Berger, Saul J. Berman, David R. Blumenthal, Marshall J. Breger and Nina Beth Cardin |
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Over the past ten years, the American Jewish community has undergone a radical inner shift in mood, from buoyant optimism to deep anxiety about its future. Indeed, it is now startling to recall that the most commented-upon Jewish book of 1985 was Charles Silberman's A Certain People, an upbeat account of “American Jews and their lives today” which found widespread evidence of “Jewish renewal” and security.
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January 1996 |
Jack Wertheimer, Charles S. Liebman and Steven M. Cohen |
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Normally, when the representative organizations of a small minority emphatically back public policies that are just as emphatically rejected by the majority of American voters, one might expect at least a modicum of internal soul-searching about the wisdom of the minority's positions—particularly when those positions are only tangentially related to the group's actual interests.
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May 1995 |
Jack Wertheimer |
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Not since the period between the two world wars, generally regarded as the heyday of anti-Semitism in the U.S., have demagogues manipulated the rhetoric of hatred so shamelessly and publicly as in our own day.
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September 1994 |
Reviewed by Jack Wertheimer |
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Ever since the release of the finding (from the 1990 Jewish Population Study) that rates of intermarriage have surged in recent decades, leaders of the major American Jewish organizations have agonized over a crisis of “Jewish continuity” in this country.
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January 1994 |
Jack Wertheimer |
