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American Jewry's Challenge: Conversations Confronting the Twenty-first Century
American Jewry's Challenge Conversations Confronting the Twentyfirst Century Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld Watershed events_including the second Palestinian uprising in 2000, September 11, 2001 and the Iraq war_have created important new challenges for American Jewry. The introductory essay and interviews with 17 prominent American Jews explore these. Major elements of American Jewry's changing mind-set relate to Israel. Others concern attitudes towa... more »rd Evangelical Christians and Muslims as well as increased anxiety about anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. These, mainly political, challenges are superimposed on the structural problems of American Jewry.« less