The One in 2000 Controversy


 

Publication Date: March 1987

Publisher: Moment Magazine

Author(s): Steven M. Cohen

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: American Jews

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Few issues have so captured Jewish attention in recent years as the matter of internal division within the Jewish community. And no one has been more responsible for putting that issue on our agenda than Rabbi Irvin Greenberg, whose essay "Will There Be One Jewish People by the Year 2000?" published in 1985, was widely noted. Here, a leading social scientist challenges the Greenberg thesis, and Greenberg responds.