Income, Identity and Involvement in the Jewish Community: a Test of an Estimate of the Affordability of Living Jewishly


 

Publication Date: January 1989

Publisher: Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)

Author(s): J. Alan Winter

Research Area: Banking and finance; Social conditions

Keywords: Communal Organization; Jewish Identification; Allocations

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The relationship between family income and the affordability of living Jewishly is neither simple nor direct. Whether or not a given Jewish activity is regarded as affordable is dependent both on family income or amount of available discretionary funds and on the degree of Jewish identity or commitment.