The New Jews
A Critique of the Transition: Youth’s Alienation
The American Jewish community is only beginning to come to terms with the meaning of this prostitution of Judaism to the status quo, and it is doing so because of the alienation of the majority of its young people. We have already suggested that their rejection of the Jewish community is less a…
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