LINKS TO PEW SURVEY ON AMERICAN JEWS

LINKS TO PEW SURVEY ON AMERICAN JEWS

The following resources are available for the interested reader to study the Pew Survey on American Jews and the discussion of it in the contemporary media.

Online view of the Pew Survey on American Jews is available at:

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey/

A download of the full report (214 pages) is available at:

http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/10/jewish-american-full-report-for-web.pdf

An overview of the report (20 pages) is available at:

http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/10/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey-overview.pdf

New York Times coverage is available at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/us/poll-shows-major-shift-in-identity-of-us-jews.html

See also Ross Douthat’s comparison with Pope Francis at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-promise-and-peril-of-pope-francis.html?ref=rossdouthat

Jerusalem Post coverage is available at:

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Survey-1-in-5-US-Jews-say-they-have-no-religion-Orthodox-share-of-population-grows-327545

Analysis by The Jewish Forward is available at:

http://forward.com/articles/184795/jews-bound-by-shared-beliefs-even-as-markers-of-fa/?p=all

See comments by Steven M. Cohen at: http://forward.com/articles/184986/american-jewry-loses-middle-as-orthodox-and-unaffi/

and (by J. J. Goldberg) at:

http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/184982/-proudly-jewish-so-why-dismiss-them/?utm_campaign=&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=jd.fo-other&utm_content=general-general#.Uk2m3XrXvJw.facebook

Read the analysis by Chancellor Arnold Eisen of the Jewish Theological Seminary at:

http://blog.jtsa.edu/chancellor-eisen/2013/10/08/chancellor-eisen-in-haaretz-new-pew-report-reengaging-american-jews-before-they-drift-away/

Rabbi Rabbi Joshua Hammerman’s reflections and analysis at:

 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-and-pewish-the-good-news/

and:

http://www.tbe.org/uploadedFiles/site/Rabbis_Corner/Rabbi_Study_Materials/pewcommentary.pdf

Rabbi Benjamin Blech’s take is found at:

http://www.aish.com/jw/s/The-Vanishing-American-Jew.html

Religion Dispatches roundtable discussion at:

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/7344/pew_and_the_jews___so_what_/

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/7345/good_news_for_bad_news_addicts

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/7335/good_news_for_jewish_justice

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/7336/and_what_of_the_non_jewish_jews

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/7337/opportunity_knocks_in_pew_results

A take by “Jews and Social Justice” can be found at:

http://www.justice-in-the-city.com/?p=590

Rabbi Alan Silverstein's positive spin in the New Jersey Jewish News can be found at:
http://www.njjewishnews.com/article/18696/a-healthier-scenario-than-pew-suggests#.UoDJiZTXT6k