Sherry Israel

Sherry Israel is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Associate Professor in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University.

Publications by Sherry Israel

AMERICAN JEWISH PUBLIC ACTIVITY — IDENTITY, DEMOGRAPHY, AND THE INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE

, September 16, 2001

Jews in America have been known to be, in Earl Raab’s felicitous phrase, “politically hyperactive.” Yet today, the most fundamental indicators of Jewish support — membership, participation, and contributions — are on the wane for most of the organizations which have been in the forefront of Jewish activity in the public square in recent decades. Read More »

Filed under: World Jewry

American Jewish Public Activity: Identity, Demography, and the Institutional Challenge

, September 16, 2001

Jews in America have been known to be, in Earl Raab’s felicitous phrase, "politically hyperactive." Yet today, the most fundamental indicators of Jewish support — membership, participation, and contributions — are on the wane for most of the organizations which have been in the forefront of Jewish activity in the public square in recent decades. Read More »

Filed under: World Jewry