Future of Judaism in America

Jerome A. Chanes is an adjunct professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He was national affairs director of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (now the Jewish Council for Public Affairs) and was associate executive director of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. He has taught at Barnard College, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Tel Aviv University School of Law, Yeshiva University, and the Academy of Jewish Religion. His books include Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook, Antisemitism in America Today: Exploding the Myths, and A Primer on the American Jewish Community, and he is author of more than 100 articles, book chapters, reviews, and encyclopedia entries on Jewish issues and arts and letters. Mark Silk (Ph.D. Harvard University), co-editor of the Future of American Religion series, is director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religionin Public Life and Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His books include Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II, Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America, and, co-authored with Andrew Walsh, One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics. He is a columnist and contributing editor at the Religion News Service.

• Acknowledgements.- Series Editors’ Introduction: The Future of Religion in America (Mark Silk and Andrew H. Walsh).- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Future of Judaism in America: Judaism Is Now Choice (Jerome A. Chanes).- Chapter 2. The Future of American Jewish Denominations (Lawrence Grossman).- Chapter 3. Perspectives from Demography and Geography (Ira M. Sheskin).- Chapter 4. Renewal (Shaul Magid and Jerome A. Chanes).- Chapter 5. Women’s Active Partnership in Revitalizing American Judaism (Sylvia Barack Fishman).- Chapter 6. Jewish Political Involvement (Marc D. Stern).- Chapter 7. American Jews, Judaism and Other Faith Communities (Eugene Korn).- Chapter 8. Conclusion (Jerome A. Chanes and Mark Silk).- Index.

“The Future of Judaism in America, announces an ambitious effort to address an important subject. Indeed, there is much to admire about the book’s chapters, which comprehensively cover a variety of topics … both broad context and fine detail. … The six chapters that comprise the heart of the book are written by wellknown scholars and keen observers of American Judaism, Jews, and Jewish communal dynamics. Overall, these chapters are extremely informative, exquisitely detailed, and well worth reading … .” (Laurence Kotler‑Berkowitz, Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 44 (3), 2024)