Revisiting the Jewish Continuity -- Jewish Community Relations Dialectic

Publication Date: March 1996

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Raviv Schwartz

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Fundraising and Philanthropy; Employment

Type: Report

Abstract:

Interviews with directors of several community relations agencies indicate that a discrepancy exists between the rhetorical commitment of the community relations field to Jewish continuity and its translation into programmatic action. Yet, over the past fifteen years, the older generation of community relations directors has been replaced by a cohort of younger, more Jewishly knowledgeable and committed professionals who are more predisposed ideologically to a continuity agenda. Gauging the impact of this new cohort of directors on community relations programming will require more extensive data collection.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.72 no.3, Spring 1996.