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

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

September 16, 2001 | Sherry Israel
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.
American Jewish Public Activity: Identity, Demography, and the Institutional Challenge

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

September 16, 2001 | Sherry Israel
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.