The Challenge of Outreach: Turning On Turned Off Jews


 

Publication Date: June 1980

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America)

Author(s): Richard J. Israel

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Jewish identification; Jewish Organizations; Jewish Outreach

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author argues that effective outreach is not a matter of technical prowess or organizational structure, but rather of creating a warm, lively, engaged Jewish community that is passionate about Judaism. He reviews the unique roots of the American Jewish community and discusses the problems of Jewish identity faced consequently by the community's modern branches.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.56 no.4, Summer 1980.