Posts Tagged: Jewish assimilation
Jewish Education Is Needed to Stop Assimilation
My oldest daughter recently enrolled in a major university on the East Coast. On day one, we went to a Hillel event with a few...
On the Crisis of Jewish Literacy, We Need Bold Solutions
In the third volume of the Sapir Journal [Autumn 2021], Daniel Gordis -- author and Senior Vice President at Shalem College in Jerusalem -- laments...
Billy Rose — and Why We Can’t Write Off ‘Secular’ and Non-Religious Jews
Who was Billy Rose? If you have visited the museum complex in Jerusalem, not far from the Knesset, you will be familiar with the Billy...
The Truth About the Drop in Israel Support Among US Jewish College Students
In the June 23 edition of The Algemeiner, Leonard Saxe disputed the results of Brand Israel Group’s (BIG) recent study, which showed a marked loss...
Assimilation Is Our Greatest Threat, But We Can Help Stop It
Assimilation is the great tragedy destroying the Jewish people -- and it gets worse and worse every day. A majority of the world’s Jews outside of...
Argentina’s Jewish Leaders Ask for Israel’s Help in Face of Accelerated Assimilation
JNS.org - Leaders of Argentina’s Jewish community have warned that accelerated assimilation by Jews in the South American nation and worldwide is “placing the Jewish...
Is There Such a Thing as a ‘Cultural’ Jew?
JNS.org - From time immemorial, Jews have been concerned with the question of Jewish survival. Much ink has been spilled about the demise of...
Sexual Choices Amid Evolving Standards
Sexual depravity, like violence, was the natural state of the pagan world, with temple prostitution and human sacrifice going hand-in-hand. Even in the Bible, some...
The Jewish-American Buzzword: Continuity
The American Jewish community buzzword is continuity. It's understandable in this great republic, where assimilation approaches 60 percent. Perhaps we can inspire continuity, in part,...
The Beauty of Jewish Baby Naming Ceremonies
I ended up attending a baby naming ceremony recently "by accident." I was there because I was meeting a friend for breakfast who...
Was the Holocaust Punishment for Sin?
For so many people religion is practiced out of a sense superstition. Like a furry rabbit's foot, it wards off evil spirits. Fulfilling...
Tell the Stories of Today’s Jewish Heroes
Every week I spend time in the library with my children, often reading the biographies of different heroes. It is easy to find...
Purim Guide for the Perplexed 2013
1. "Purimfest 1946" were the last words of Julius Streicher, the Nazi propaganda chief, as he approached the hanging gallows (Newsweek magazine,...
Saving and Educating Jews are Acts of Holiness
In the book 'Defiance' (which was later made into a Hollywood film staring Liev Schreiber), the wife of a partisan says following World War II:...
