External Pressures Facing American Jewry: Case Study
Issues
The great Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote over a century ago: “Spiritual rootlessness is no less horrendous than physical insecurity.” He added: “The dangers of spiritual impoverishment were greatest exactly where external pressures were weakest or non-existent.”
Today, this quote speaks much more than in the past to the American Jews. While there are isolated cases of anti-Semitism there aren’t real physical problems or many external pressures facing American Jewry.
The biggest problem is one of Jewish continuity. There are only some programs succeeding in educating or exciting the next generation of American Jews.
Judaism suffers an integration and demographic problem.
Many Jews marry non-Jewish partners. This
The great Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote over a century ago: “Spiritual rootlessness is no less horrendous than physical insecurity.” He added: “The dangers of spiritual impoverishment were greatest exactly where external pressures were weakest or non-existent.”
Today, this quote speaks much more than in the past to the American Jews. While there are isolated cases of anti-Semitism there aren’t real physical problems or many external pressures facing American Jewry.
The biggest problem is one of Jewish continuity. There are only some programs succeeding in educating or exciting the next generation of American Jews.
Judaism suffers an integration and demographic problem.
Many Jews marry non-Jewish partners. This