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The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing
Choice in a Changing World
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b Who should count as Jewish in America? What should be
the relationship of American Jews to Israel? b b Can the
American Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on
to the next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity? b
The situation of American Jews today is deeply paradoxical.
Jews have achieved unprecedented integration, influence, and
esteem in virtually every facet of American life. But this
extraordinarily diverse community now also faces four critical
and often divisive challenges: rampant intermarriage, weak
religious observance, diminished cohesion in the face of
waning anti-Semitism, and deeply conflicting views about
Israel. Can the American Jewish community collectively
sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense
of Jewish identity in light of these challenges? Who should
count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship
of American Jews to Israel? In this thoughtful and perceptive
book, Robert H. Mnookin argues that the answers of the past
no longer serve American Jews today. The book boldly
promotes a radically inclusive American-Jewish community --
one where being Jewish can depend on personal choice and
public self-identification, not simply birth or formal religious
conversion. Instead of preventing intermarriage or ostracizing
those critical of Israel, he envisions a community that
embraces diversity and debate, and in so doing, preserves and
strengthens the Jewish identity into the next generation and

beyond. em em
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should count as Jewish in America? What should be the
relationship of American Jews to Israel? b b Can the American
Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on to the next
generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity? b The
situation of American Jews today is deeply paradoxical. Jews
have achieved unprecedented integration, influence, and
esteem in virtually every facet of American life. But this
extraordinarily diverse community now also faces four critical
and often divisive challenges: rampant intermarriage, weak
religious observance, diminished cohesion in the face of
waning anti-Semitism, and deeply conflicting views about
Israel. Can the American Jewish community collectively
sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense
of Jewish identity in light of these challenges? Who should
count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship
of American Jews to Israel? In this thoughtful and perceptive
book, Robert H. Mnookin argues that the answers of the past
no longer serve American Jews today. The book boldly
promotes a radically inclusive American-Jewish community --
one where being Jewish can depend on personal choice and
public self-identification, not simply birth or formal religious
conversion. Instead of preventing intermarriage or ostracizing
those critical of Israel, he envisions a community that
embraces diversity and debate, and in so doing, preserves and
strengthens the Jewish identity into the next generation and
beyond. em em