Steven M. Cohen

Intermarriage In The Motor Suburbs

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 10:59

 For two years in the late 1990s, Detroit’s northwest suburbs — where most of its Jews live — were my stomping (or, more accurately, driving) grounds.

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Pro-Israel, With Questions: Beinart Pins his Thesis to the Synagogue Door

05/26/2010
Ron Kampeas
JTA

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Peter Beinart attends an Orthodox synagogue, once edited The New Republic (the closest thing to a smicha for Jewish policy wonks) and backed Sen. Joe Lieberman’s quixotic 2004 bid to become the first Jewish president.

Which is why he’s always been counted among the Washington pundits who defend Israel, Zionism and the right of American Jews to lobby for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.

Beinart also frets about how Jewish his kids will be.

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What Passover Tells Us About Peoplehood

Gary Rosenblatt
03/24/2010
Gary Rosenblatt

 For the longest time, Jewish peoplehood was lived rather than discussed. But no longer.

Ever since the Israelites fled Egypt and crossed the Red Sea in miraculous fashion — a seminal act in Jewish history commemorated and celebrated in the upcoming Passover seders — the Jews have been a nation and a people.

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Birthright Study Offers Mixed Bag Of Results on Jewish Connections

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Birthrighters are far more likely to marry within the fold than those who didn’t go on the free Israel trip, a new study revealed.
 

10/29/2009
Gary Rosenblatt
Editor and Publisher

Ten years ago, a survey asked American Jewish college students to name the top 20 countries they would like to visit. Israel didn’t make the list.

Today, nearly 225,000 Jews between the ages of 18 and 26, mostly from the U.S., have visited Israel, courtesy of Birthright Israel, a program whose free 10-day trips are designed to deepen Jewish identity.

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JCCs And The Gender Pay Gap

04/26/2002
by Steve Lipman
Staff Writer

If you go to your local Jewish community center, the employees you meet there are more involved in Jewish life and more likely to stay at their job than their counterparts in recent decades.
But if the employee you meet is a woman, she probably earns a smaller salary than a man in a comparable position.
Those are among the findings of “Centering on Professionals: The 2001 Study of JCC Personnel in North America,” a study of some 1,800 JCC staffers released this week by the Florence G. Heller-JCC Association Research Center.

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