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Title: | What do American Jews believe? |
Authors: | Berger, David |
Keywords: | American Jews American Judaism Religious beliefs assimilation |
Issue Date: | Aug-1996 |
Publisher: | AJC: American Jewish Committee |
Citation: | Berger, D. 1996, (August). What do American Jews believe? Commentary Magazine, 102(2),19-21 |
Series/Report no.: | Commentary Magazine;102(2) |
Abstract: | AMERICAN JEWS and American Judaism have lately come under increasing pressure from a variety of sources, ranging from secularism and movements of personal and sexual liberation to multiculturalism, religious syncretism, and, on the other side, a newly assertive Christian conservatism. To the challenge of contemporary American culture, ever larger numbers of Jews appear to be responding by assimilating, marrying out, or otherwise falling away-although among some there has also been an intense and perhaps surprising movement in the opposite direction, toward a return to religious practice. ¶ In the face of these realities, we would like you to address the following two groups of questions concerning your own personal beliefs and your view of the religious scene: (from Introduction) |
Description: | Magazine article |
URI: | https://www.academia.edu/44322803/David_Berger_What_Do_American_Jews_Believe_Commentary_Magazine_vol_102_no_2_August_1996_19_21 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9289 |
ISSN: | 0010-2601 |
Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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