Building an Inclusive and Caring Jewish Community

Publication Date: January 2001

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Norman Linzer

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Continuity; Jewish Organizations; Jewish Identification

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Efforts to build an inclusive and caring Jewish community are threatened by three societal forces: the shift from an ethnic to a religious/spiritual identity, the lowering of boundaries and the decline of dissonance, and the ubiquity of choice. Implications are drawn for outreach to the Jewish community, intermarriage, and the larger community.