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The Jewish Comeback Kid?

Posted by Noam Marans  Published in Jewish Identity, Judaism

Everyone wants to be called a “Comeback Kid.” John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and now, secular Judaism! The favorably reviewed PBS three-part documentary, The Jewish Americans, is characterized by the dean of American Jewish historians, Jonathan Sarna, as more evidence that, “now, like the proverbial phoenix, Jewish secularism is making a comeback.” What is Jewish secularism? [...]

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28

Jun

The Jewish Birth Dearth

Posted by Noam Marans  Published in Jewish Identity, Judaism

In Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006 (Brandeis University Press, 2007), Marianne Sanua describes a telling moment in AJC history. It was John Slawson’s “Aha!” moment in the early 1960’s. Slawson, AJC’s executive vice president, was reading the latest American Jewish Year Book study by Erich Rosenthal (“Jewish Fertility in [...]

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