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The Slow Disappearance of Turkey’s Jewish Community

The Slow Disappearance of Turkey’s Jewish Community

January 6, 2011 | Rifat Bali
Turkey's Jewish community is one of the few remaining Diaspora communities in a country with a Muslim majority. Despite its apparent dynamism, its long-term viability is doubtful. The community does not have any influence or play any role worth mentioning in Turkey's cultural, political, or intellectual life. Furthermore, in recent years the entire community has become the target of much resentment and hostile rhetoric from the country's Islamist and ultranationalist sectors.
Elderly Jews: An Increasing Priority for the American Jewish Community?

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

July 14, 2010 | Prof. Ira M. Sheskin
The American Jewish community is rapidly aging. The absolute number of elderly Jews more than doubled from 1957 to 2000, reaching more than a million persons. Data are presented on Jewish elderly from both the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey and local Jewish community studies that are useful to Jewish community planners in prioritizing services for the Jewish elderly in an environment of both increasing numbers of elderly and increasing needs in other areas of Jewish communal concern.
Scotland’s Jews: Community and Political Challenges

Scotland’s Jews: Community and Political Challenges

March 14, 2010 | Ephraim Borowski, Prof. Kenneth Collins
The Jewish community in Scotland numbered eighteen thousand in the 1950s but has now shrunk to around ten thousand, largely through emigration. The community is overwhelmingly concentrated in the Greater Glasgow area with around a thousand Jews in Edinburgh and smaller numbers scattered around the country.
The Jews in Poland: Recent Developments

The Jews in Poland: Recent Developments

March 18, 2009 | Rabbi Michael Schudrich
Muslims and Jews in Switzerland

Muslims and Jews in Switzerland

September 21, 2008 | Dr. Simon Erlanger
The Jewish Community of Australia and Its Challenges

The Jewish Community of Australia and Its Challenges

October 15, 2006 | Jeremy Jones AM
The Future of the Jews in France

The Future of the Jews in France

August 15, 2006 | Prof. Shmuel Trigano
Stephen G. Donshik on American Jewry’s Challenge

Stephen G. Donshik on American Jewry’s Challenge

March 1, 2006 | Steven G. Donshik
The Jews, Israel, and India

The Jews, Israel, and India

November 15, 2005 | Dr. Nathan Katz
Cross-Cultural Issues in Community Mediation: Perspectives for Israel

Cross-Cultural Issues in Community Mediation: Perspectives for Israel

October 30, 2000 | Allan Edward Barsky
The Ultra-Orthodox Community and Environmental Issues

The Ultra-Orthodox Community and Environmental Issues

October 1, 1999 | Prof. Avraham Wyler, Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
The Jewish Polity on Long Island – In Search of Continuity

The Jewish Polity on Long Island – In Search of Continuity

October 20, 1996
The New Geo-Demographics of American Jewry

The New Geo-Demographics of American Jewry

July 15, 1993 | Daniel J. Elazar
Communal Democracy and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish Political Tradition

Communal Democracy and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish Political Tradition

April 27, 1993
Communal Democracy, Modernity, and the Jewish Political Tradition

Communal Democracy, Modernity, and the Jewish Political Tradition

April 27, 1993