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Changing Jewish Communities

Investigating recent developments in Jewish communities worldwide.

Jewish Identities in Postmodern Societies

July 11, 2016 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Is being Jewish a matter of culture, religion, belonging to a nation or to a community? Or is it also something else?

Transformations in the Composition of American Jewish Households

November 23, 2011 | Sylvia Barack Fishman

Delayed marriage and nonmarriage contribute to a low American Jewish fertility rate, well under replacement level. The high school years are very important for later patterns of behavior, including Jewish family formation. Community leaders, policy planners, and parents can enhance the likelihood that children will grow up to want to create their own Jewish households. Educational programs for teens are a top priority.

Post-Soviet Jewry on the Cusp of Its Third Decade – Part 2

May 25, 2011 | Dr. Betsy Gidwitz

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee continues to do essential work in the post-Soviet states, but financial distress has caused the organization to sharply curtail its welfare services to vulnerable Jewish population groups. The cutbacks are due as much to decisions by North American Jewish federations to reduce subventions to international programs before the onset of the current financial crisis as to the crisis itself.

Jews as Symbols and Reality in Multicultural Canada

April 15, 2011 | Prof. Julien Bauer

The Paradox of the Italian Jewish Experience in 1990-2010

February 24, 2011 | Dr. Ephraim Nissan

The Challenges Facing British Jewry

February 6, 2011 | Prof. Leslie Wagner

American Muslims: The Community and Their Relations with Jews

January 18, 2011 | Noam Ivri

The Slow Disappearance of Turkey’s Jewish Community

January 6, 2011 | Rifat Bali

The Expulsion of the Jews from Muslim Countries, 1920-1970: A History of Ongoing Cruelty and Discrimination

November 4, 2010 | Prof. Shmuel Trigano

JCall Discourse: A Semantic Analysis

October 18, 2010 | Georges-Elia Sarfati

Highly Engaged Young American Jews: Contrasts in Generational Ethos

September 15, 2010 | Steven M. Cohen

Environmental Activism in the Canadian Jewish Community

August 15, 2010 | Yosef Dov Robinson

Elderly Jews: An Increasing Priority for the American Jewish Community?

July 14, 2010 | Prof. Ira M. Sheskin

Jewish-Muslim Interaction in Canada

June 15, 2010 | David Goldberg

American Jewry’s Comfort Level: Present and Future

May 2, 2010 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld