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The Road to Decision Making: An Analysis of Jewish Community Relations Public Policy
Publication Date: July 1996
Publisher(s): Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Author(s): Steven F. Windmueller
Series: Jerusalem Letter / Viewpoints, no.337, July 1 1996.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Keywords: Jewish organizations; Leadership; Community Development; Community Relations
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author explores in detail the American Jewish community relations establishment's history, decision processes, and methods of categorization for problems, goals, tactics an issues, basing his conclusions on a survey of local Jewish community relations councils from all over the United States. The author asserts that the contemporary field of community relations faces a number of challenges that may impede its continued effectiveness, including changing windows of consensus, external shifts in political attitudes, and generational transitions of leadership.