The Jewish Family and Jewish Communal Service: A Crisis of Values

Publication Date: September 1979

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America)

Author(s): Bernard Reisman

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Social patterns; Continuity; Family

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author examines changes that have occurred with the Jewish family over the past several generations. He argues that the family is the most effective vehicle for ensuring religious and cultural Jewish continuity, and argues that the Jewish communal field should forthrightly affirm confidence in the family, while helping families to adapt to new social realities.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.56 no.1, Fall 1979.