Fear of a New Jewishness
…cially groups that mix Judaism with secularism, Christianity, Hinduism, or Buddhism—we might view the Pew Report with considerably less alarm. Instead of thinking of this American Jewish polyculturalism as something new or threatening, and vainly seeking to recreate the nostalgic communities and religious institutions made possible in part by the pressures of persecution, Jews might embrace the rainbow spectrum of Jewish practices and Jewish physi…
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