,What We Know About American Jewish Youth and Young Adults: Some Implications for Birthright Israel

What We Know About American Jewish Youth and Young Adults: Some Implications for Birthright Israel


 

Publication Date: January 2000

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Barry Chazan; Steven M. Cohen

Research Area: Culture and religion; Education

Keywords: Diaspora Relations; Jewish Identification; Israel Experience

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The effort to bring many more American Jewish young people to Israel demands sensitivity to the new realities of contemporary American Jewish youth. Visiting Israel is the exception and not the rule for the majority of American Jewry, and it is not reinforced by adolescent peer or adult Jewish society.