Changing American Jewish Attitudes Toward Israel

Publication Date: December 1998

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Earl Raab

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Diaspora Relations; Jewish Identification; Israel Attachment

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

There is less of an emotional affinity and sense of shared identity with Israel among younger than among older American Jews. Efforts to increase the proprietary feeling among young people—that Israel is theirs—may be helpful, although a more substantive connection between American Jews and Israel will be built only by strengthening American Jewish identity itself.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.75 no.2, Winter 1998.