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The Future of Conservative Jewry

March 15, 2010 | Arnold M. Eisen

■Conservative Jewry faces three major challenges. These concern its message, its quality control, and its structure. The definition of the message has become a priority in part because of the blurring of the boundaries with other movements.

The Future of Jewish Education

December 15, 2009 | Prof. Jack Wertheimer

Important new trends and major challenges have reshaped the field of Jewish education over the past two decades. An overarching development has been families' insistence on choice as they try to find the schools and programs offering the best fit for each of their children. These expressions of consumerism have required Jewish educational institutions to tailor their programs to the needs of individual students and their parents.

The Birthright Israel Program: Present and Possible Future Impacts

January 19, 2009 | Prof. Leonard Saxe

By autumn 2008, nearly two hundred thousand young Jewish adults aged eighteen to twenty-six from around the world had participated in Taglit-Birthright Israel, which consists of ten-day educational experiences in Israel. The aim of Birthright Israel is to make the participants' Jewish identity more relevant to them, to enhance ahavat Yisrael (love of Israel), and to promote a sense of Jewish peoplehood. Research shows a great uniformity of impact on each of these measures, regardless of the par

Ireland’s Jews: Past, Present, Future

July 28, 2008 | Dr. Rory Miller

The Future of Reform Jewry

June 15, 2007 | David Ellenson

The Future of the Jews in France

August 15, 2006 | Prof. Shmuel Trigano

A Jewish “March of Dimes”? Organization Theory and the Future of Jewish Community Relations Councils

April 30, 2000 | Mordecai Lee

Russia’s Jews: Extinction or Renaissance?

November 15, 1993

Post Soviet Jewry: An Uncertain Future

September 1, 1993