Newsletter July 2013 Volume 5 Number 1

Ira M. Sheskin Editor, University of Miami Department of Geography and Director, Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies

Berman Jewish DataBank Opens at JFNA T he Berman Jewish DataBank, the central online address for quantitative studies of North American Jewry, as well as information about world Jewish populations, has formally moved from the University of Connecticut to The Jewish Federations of North America.

The newly renamed Berman Jewish DataBank is the successor to the North American Jewish Data Bank, which was founded in 1986 and since 2004 was located at the University of Connecticut. The DataBank’s new name honors Mandell (Bill) Berman, whose Berman Foundation funded the North American Jewish Data Bank through the Federation system since its inception. Last year the Foundation established a generous endowment to provide a permanent home for the DataBank at The Jewish Federations of North America.

By offering open access to a growing collection of more than 375 national, local and topical studies, reports, and resources, the DataBank aims to serve and inform a wide range of stakeholders, including Jewish Federations and other communal organizations, researchers, educators and students, foundations and philanthropists, social change agents, the media and interested individuals. We encourage scholars to continue to enrich the DataBank’s holdings with their studies and to utilize the DataBank’s holdings in their research and teaching.

In our first step as manager of the DataBank, JFNA built a new DataBank website and established an online partnership with the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner, also a Berman Foundation-funded initiative. The DataBank and BJPA now share online search and other functionality which provide users simultaneous access to the DataBank and BJPA collections.

The DataBank is also maintaining its academic partnership with the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut, which managed the North American Jewish Data Bank for the past nine years under Director Arnold Dashefsky. Under Arnie’s leadership, the Data Bank’s holdings were greatly increased, important resources were developed, and academic connections were strengthened. JFNA is extremely thankful for all Arnie and his team at UConn did to build and strengthen the Data Bank during its tenure there, and we are very pleased to announce 2 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 that Arnie will be staying on as Director Emeritus of the Berman Jewish DataBank. We are also delighted that Ron Miller is continuing to work at the DataBank as Senior Research Consultant.

Prior to its tenure at UConn, the North American Jewish Data Bank was located at the City University of New York (1986-2003) and Brandeis University (2003-2004).

If you have questions, comments or suggestions about the Berman Jewish DataBank, please be in touch with us at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you.

Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Senior Director, Research and Analysis, Director, Berman Jewish DataBank, The Jewish Federations of North America. „ Table of Contents

Berman Jewish DataBank Opens at JFNA.1 Contemporary Jewry ...... 15 ASSJ President’s Column...... 2 The Jewish Journal of Sociology ...... 17 Welcome New Members...... 3 Berman Jewish DataBank...... 19 The American Jewish Year Book...... 4 Berman Jewish Policy Archive...... 20 News from Members...... 5 Members in the News...... 22 Session at the Association for the Job Announcements...... 23 Sociology of Religion...... 12 ASA Meeting...... 23 ASSJ Sklare Award...... 13 National Council on Family Relations. . . 24 ASSJ Berman Award...... 13 Funding Sources...... 25 The ASSJ...... 14 Feinstein Center...... 34 ASSJ Book Series at the University of Jewish Educational Tourism...... 35 Nebraska...... 15 ASSJ President’s Column I want to take the opportunity of my first column as ASSJ President to reflect on our mission and objectives. I do so to stimulate and invite discussion.

In my mind, our most over-arching objective is to build and strengthen the ties of collegial community among us, that is, among the central researchers and educators in our field. Toward that end, we need to encourage more frequent, extensive, and inclusive interaction among those actively engaged in producing and disseminating ideas.

Very concretely, this objective means expanding the number and location of conferences, both those that we sponsor and those in which we participate by organizing sessions. Examples include the Taglit-Birthright conference this past June in organized by Len Saxe; the conference on Jewish Educational Tourism at Oranim on July 25 organized by Lilach Lev-Ari; the upcoming session at the Association for the Sociology of Religion in August organized by Arnie Dashefsky and Harriet Hartman; and, of course, our program (14 sessions!) at the 2013 Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting organized by many of you and shepherded by Shelly Tenenbaum. Our journal, Contemporary 3 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

Jewry (edited by Sam Heilman), and our ASSJ Newsletter (edited by Ira Sheskin) are supremely vital to our effort to promote intellectual interchange and build collegial community. But, beyond the formal gatherings and publications, we also benefit by attending to our more informal interactions. I know that after becoming President, I've probably spent more time than last year meeting with people individually, and engaging in stimulating and fruitful conversations. Perhaps the one take-away is banal and obvious, but we all benefit from attending to inter-personal relationships in collegial contexts.

On a related matter, we need to develop and improve our culture of critical collegial discourse. Our field and the world of ideas are much enriched by our controversies and debates. At the same time, as I speak with non-academics with whom we interface, I know that our influence and potential have been diminished by a style of discourse that non-academics find difficult to appreciate. Somehow, we need to at least take a look at this issue, even if little may be resolved (which I suspect may be the case).

My nominee for our second objective: Enrich our contribution to public discourse beyond the strict confines of academia. Collectively, we have done a reasonably good job of contributing to public thought and policy discourse. We can do more and we can do it better. Rarely do we contribute to mainstream media. I am prompted to write these words, in part, because I so admired and appreciated the contribution of Sam Heilman's to this morning's Ha'aretz www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/samuel-heilman-1.533795. Sam's contribution offers a model to which we should all aspire: Building upon our research expertise and going beyond its strict confines to make insightful (and in Sam's case, morally compelling) points to a wider public.

Third, I want to stress an issue of which we're all aware, but need to focus upon repeatedly: Advance the careers of colleagues who are junior or under-employed. Here I am thinking about several actions we can (and do) take. Among them are mentorship, employment, scholarly collaboration, co-authorship, reputation-building, referrals, and more. In just the past few months, I have been impressed with the extraordinary minds and commitment of younger scholars with whom I have met and, as a result, feel more challenged to urge us to do what we can to advance their careers.

Upon reviewing the above, I ask you to consider: To what extent would you agree with prioritizing these objectives? Which other objectives merit attention? How should we go about doing our business? I invite your comments and feedback, and most of all, collaboration in improving the social scientific study of Jewry. „ Welcome New Members! Pierre Anctil Maya Balakirsky Katz Suzanne Rutland Jonathan Boyd Helen Kim Michelle Shain Matthew Brown Lilach Lev Ari Sara Smith Erik Cohen Jeff Levin Laura Staetsky Lars Dencik Adam Mirsky Shoshanah Feher Sternlieb Deborah Einhorn Vera B. Moreen Jennifer Thompson Robert Glazier Pamela Nadell Jacob Ukeles Peter Gluck Daniel Parmer Herbert Weisberg Deborah Grant 4 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 The American Jewish Year Book F rom 1899-2008, the American Jewish Year Book (AJYB), The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities” was published by the Jewish Publication Society and the American Jewish Committee (AJC). Starting in 2012, AJYB is published by Springer.

Publication is supported by the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut, the UM College of Arts and Sciences, UConn’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and the Berman Foundation. ASSJ has been supportive of this effort. AJYB is edited by Arnold Dashefsky of the University of Connecticut and Ira Sheskin of the University of Miami.

Previous editors include: Cyrus Adler, Maurice Basseches, Herman Bernstein, Morris Fine, Herbert Friedenwald, H.G. Friedman, Lawrence Grossman, Milton Himmelfarb, Joseph Jacobs, Martha Jelenko, Julius B. Maller, Samson D. Oppenheim, Harry Schneiderman, Ruth R. Selden, David Singer, Jacob Sloan, Maurice Spector, and Henrietta Szold.

For the 2013 volume due in December 2013, Part I consists of 6 major articles: “Jewish Education in a New Century: An Ecosystem in Transition” by Jonathan Woocher and Meredith Woocher; “New York Jewry” by Steven M. Cohen, Jacob B. Ukeles, and Ron Miller; “National Affairs,” by Ethan Felson; “Jewish Communal Affairs,” by Lawrence Grossman; “Jewish Population in the United States, 2013,” by Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky; and “World Jewish Population, 2013,” by Sergio DellaPergola.

Parts II-III contain a listing of resources in the Jewish community, including Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Family Services, national Jewish organizations, Jewish overnight camps, Jewish museums, Holocaust museums, memorials, and monuments, national Jewish periodicals and broadcast media, and local Jewish periodicals.

Part IV contains resources for academicians, including lists of Jewish Studies programs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies programs, Jewish Social Work programs, major books, academic journals, and scholarly articles on the North American Jewish Communities, websites and Jewish organizations for research on North American Jewish communities, and major Judaic and Holocaust research libraries.

Part V includes a list of major events in the North American Jewish Community in the past year, a list of persons honored by the Jewish and general communities in the past year, and a list of important North American who died in the past year. „ 5 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 News from Members

Sarah Benor Barry Chiswick Hebrew Union College, LA George Washington University

! Sarah recently spoke about her book ! A review 'The American Economy and (Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the : A Symbiotic Relationship' on Language and Culture of Orthodox , Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with Rutgers Press, 2012) and related topics in American Capitalism was published by H-Net several venues, including Oxford University, Reviews. University of Antwerp, the Library of www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=369 Congress, Princeton University, University of 68. Minnesota, and Cal State Long Beach. ! She founded, with Ofra Tirosh-Becker, the Arnold Dashefsky Journal of , published twice University of Connecticut a year by Brill. And she created the Jewish English Lexicon, an online collaborative Presentations database of Hebrew, , and other words ! “Outside the Mainstream of Judaism: An used within English. This website has Empirical Examination of American Jewish pedagogical applications in classes on Secularism,” Association for the Sociology of American Jews, and Sarah welcomes Religion, New York (2013) (with Ira Sheskin). inquiries about it and submissions of edits and ! Invited paper at University of Miami new entries. (February 2013): "The Legacy of the www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-english-le American Jewish Year Book." xicon/ Grant Received ! Berman Foundation, to support publication of the American Jewish Year Book.

Grants Completed (2004-2013) The Berman Institute-North American Jewish Data Bank transferred administration from the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, in cooperation with the Roper Center at the University of Connecticut, through the generous support of the Berman Foundation to The Jewish Federations of North America.

Publications ! Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin (co-editors). American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 113, Springer (forthcoming 2013).

! Jewish Population in the United States, 2013,” in Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. (Editors) The American Jewish Year 6 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

Book, 2013, Vol. 113 (2013) (Dordrecht: Journal Article Springer) (with Ira Sheskin). ! “Enhanced Agency for Recent Jewish Migrants to the US,? Contemporary Jewry Contemporary Jewry Vol 33, No 1-2, April -July 2013, pp. 145-167.

Presentation ! "Russian Speaking Jews in the US," Presentation at NEH Summer Institute, America's Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: 20th Century Migration and Memory, June 17, 2013, Columbia University.

Henry Green University if Miami

! Keynote speaker at the International Society of Biblical Literature Conference, St. Andrews Scotland on July 10, 2013. He spoke on his film, Sephardi Voices: Seven Stories, executive Director Henry Green; director, Bea Lewkowicz.

Sergio DellaPergola ! Led a session on his film Sephardi Voices The Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the World Jewish Congress in July 2013 in ! “World Jewish Population, 2013,” in Arnold Jerusalem with panelists, Beal Lewkowicz Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. (Editors) The (Sephardi Voices UK Director and Research American Jewish Year Book, 2013, Vol. 113 Fellow, University of London; Margalit (2013) (Dordrecht: Springer) in press. Bejarano, Sephardi Voices Israel Director, and Esther Schely-Newman). Steve Gold Michigan State University ! Articles on Sephardi Voices will appear in Hadassah magazine and Na'amat Woman, Edited Book Fall, 2013. ! The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies (with Stephanie Nawyn) For more on this movie, see: Routledge 2013. www.tabletmag.com/je wish-life-and-religion/1 Book Chapter 30482. ! “Israelis and Israeli Americans, 1940- Present” in Elliot Barkan (Editor) Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation and Integration, Vol. 3, pp. 1029-1039, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2013. 7 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

Harriet Hartman State in the United States, France & Israel, Rowan University Georgetown University, February 2013. ! "Religious Identity Development of Youth: Publication The Role of Socialization Agents," The ! “The(Dis)similarity of a Minority Religion to International Society for the Sociology of Its Broader Religious Context: The Case of Religion (ISSR) Conference, Turku, Finland, American Jews,” Review of Religious June 27-30, 2013. Research SpringerLink Online first (with Ira Sheskin) March, 2013. Barry Kosmin http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s136 Trinity University, Institute for the Study of 44-013-0112-7 Secularism in Society & Culture

Presentation Publications ! "Denominational Variations across Jewish ! (with Ariela Keysar) "American Jewish Communities in the United States" (with Ira Secularism: Jewish Life: Beyond the Sheskin) at the Association of Religion, ," In Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Economics, and Culture, Crystal City VA, Sheskin (Editors), American Jewish Year April, 2013. Book 2012, Springer Dordrecht, 2013, pp. 3-53. Ariela Keysar ! "Traditionalism, professional Trinity College, Public Policy and identity and the attitudes of Law academics and physicians in India toward alternative medicine," Publications Asian Journal of Science and ! (with Juhem Navarro-Rivera) Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2013 “A World of Atheism: Global (with Ariella Keysar and Umesh Demographics,” in The Oxford Gidwani). Handbook of Atheism, Stephen ! "Preaching to the Reform Choir: Bullivant and Michael Ruse, editors (Oxford Obama's Progressive Discourse," Jewish University Press, 2013). Quarterly, 222, Summer 2012, pp.18-19. ! " Editorial Essay: Changing Agendas in the ! (with Barry A. Kosmin and Umesh Sociological and Demographic Study of Gidwani) "Traditionalism, professional Diaspora Jews," The Jewish Journal of identity, and the attitudes of academics and Sociology, Vol. 54, nos, 1 and 2, 2012, pp. physicians in India toward alternative 1-26. medicine." Asian Journal of Science and ! "The empiricist's tale: Academic wanderlust Technology, June 2013. and the comparative imperative," in Titus www. jo u rn a lajs t . c o m / co n t en t / t ra d it i Hjelm and Philadelphia Zuckerman, Editors, onalism-professional-identity-and-attitudes-a Studies in Religion and Society: Sociological cademics-and-physicians-india-toward-alt self-portraits, Routledge, London & New York, ! Review of Atheism and Secularity, Journal 2013, pp.139-150. of Contemporary Religion, 27:1, 2012. ! "The Unexpected Rise of Secularity in the United States 1990-2008," Ethique, Politique, Presentation Religions, Garnier, Paris, 2013, 1, No.2, ! "Freedom of Choice: Women and 143-162. Demography in Israel, France and the U.S." at ! "Cheating or Leveling the Playing Field? Secularism on the Edge: The Church & The Rethinking How We Ask Questions About 8 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

Religion in the U. S," Free Inquiry, Vol. 33, No. 4, June/July 2013. www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?sectio n=fi&page=cragun_kosmin_33_4

Research Project Worldviews and Opinions of American College Students: An On-line National Survey.

This survey deals with contemporary public policy and public values issues of particular relevance to young people covering 90 political, economic, social, scientific, and religious-secular questions. It was administered on-line in April-May 2013 to a sample of 1,710 undergraduate students from 38 Universities and colleges with public access email lists.

This is a collaborative project of ISSSC with the Center for Inquiry Transnational, Amherst, NY and is supported by external research grants and Trinity summer student research grants for 2012 and 2013. !"Ciencias Sociales y Políticas de Estado en A module specifically aimed at a Jewish México” (Social Sciences and Scientific student sample is planned for Winter 2014. Policies), Las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales. México, Coordinación de Judit Bokser-Liwerant Humanidades, 2012. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, ! "Being National/Being Transnational: on Sabbatical. Research Stay in Paris, invited Snapshots of Belonging and Citizenship,” in by la Maison Des Sciences de L'Homme, Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: the Latin November-December 2012, Distinguished America experience, Leiden y London, Brill, Visiting Professor at The Hebrew University of 2013, pp. 343-365. Jerusalem, appointed January 2013. ! "Discriminación y minorías religiosa,” Director-Editor of the Mexican Journal of (Discrimination and Religious Minorities) Political and Social Sciences, New Epoch, Mexico, Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la appointed July 2012. Discriminación, 2012 (electronic). !"Latin American Jews in the United States. Publications Community and Belonging in Times of ! "Identidad, cultura y diversidad como Transnationalism" in Contemporary Jewry, parámetros reflexivos” (Identity, Culture and Len Saxe and Sergio DellaPergola (Editors), Diversity as Analytical Parameters) in 2013. pp. 121-143. Rosalba Casas Guerrero y Hubert Carton !"Latin American Jewish Social Studies: the de Grammont (Editors), Democracia, Evolution of a Cross-Disciplinary Field" in Conocimiento y Cultura, Bonilla Artigas Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 27. Editores-IISUNAM, 2012, pp. 389-406. 9 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

! Science and Ideology in Contemporary ! 30th International Congress of the Latin Jewish Research, Uzi Rebhun (Editor) (The American Studies Association. Toward a Third Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Century of Independence in Latin America, Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, San Francisco, May 2012. Paper: A Binomial Oxford University Press), (forthcoming, 2013. and its Challenges: Shifting Social Dynamics !"Diásporas y transnacionalismo: nuevas and Conceptual Approaches to Diaspora and i n d a g a c i o n e s s o b r e l o s j u d í o s Transnationalism. latinoamericanos hoy,” (Diasporas and ! Colloquium on Religious Diversity and Non Transnationalism: New Approaches to Latin Discrimination, The National Council to American Jews Today) (with Leonardo Prevent Discrimination, May 2012. Paper: Senkman), Judaica Latinoamericana, Discriminación y minorías religiosas: un Magness Press, Vol. 8 (forthcoming July análisis de la Encuesta Nacional para 2013). Prevenir la Discriminación ENADIS 2010 !"Latin American Jewish Life in the 21st (Discrimination and Religious Minorities: An Century: The paradox of shrinking Analysis of the National Survey on communities, and expanded-revitalized Discrimination 2010). Jewish life,” Annual Assessment, The Jewish ! International Colloquium Israel-Latin People Policy Institute, 2013. America, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ! "Thinking "Multiple Modernities" from Latin September 2012. Paper: América Latina y sus America's Perspectives: complexity, periphery comunidades judías: diásporas, procesos de and diversity, in Multiple Modernities in the globalización y transnacionalismo (Latin Contemporary Scene. A continuation of the America and its Jewish Communities). Multiple Modernities Research Program, ! International Conference: The Jewish Michael Sussman and Gerhard Preyer Communities of Latin America, University of (Editors), (in edition), 2013. Sao Paulo, Bar Ilan University, Brasil, September 2012. Paper: Relocation, Books Redefinition and Interconnectedness of Working on the book Community, Society and Jewish Life in Times (and Spaces) of Politics. Past and Present Paths of Latin Transnationalism: New Realities, New American Jews. Analytical Perspectives. !International Congress 100 Years of Symposia and Congresses Institutional Jewish Life in Mexico, UNAM- ! Symposia of the Mexican Academy of COLMEX, Kehila Ashkenazi, México, October Science on the Humanities and Social 2012. Key Note Speaker: The State of Israel Sciences, January 2012. Paper: Ser otro en la and its Impact on Institutional Jewish Life in historia y la memoria (Being Other in History Mexico. and Memory). ! 44th Annual Conference of the Association ! 40 World Congress of International Institute for Jewish Studies, Chicago, December 2012. of Sociology, New Delhi, February 2012. Round Table: Jewish Cultures in the Paper: Thinking Multiple Modernities from Americas. Latin America's Perspective: complexity, ! Seventh International Symposium: The Klal periphery and diversity. Yisrael Project: Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora ! International Colloquium on Jewish Relations, Tel-Aviv University, Hebrew Education, Mexico, Vaad Hajinuj and University of Jerusalem, Ben Gurion Universidad Hebraica, May 2012. Paper: University, Israel, January 2013. Paper: Research for Education. and Transnationalism: Award Partners? 10 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

! International Spring Colloquium on the Randal F. Schnoor Study of International Relations: UNAM, April York University 2013. Paper: Crossing National frontiers: New analytical angles? Publication ! International Conference: Penser Global, ! "The Jews of Canada: A Demographic Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris, Profile" in Jews in Time and Space Series: May 2013. Paper: To Think Global: facing new The Jews of Canada. Edited by Ira Robinson realities, narratives and conceptual (Boston: Academic Press), 2013. challenges. ! XXXI International Congress of Latin Presentations American Studies Association (LASA), ! "New Approaches to the Study of Growth Washington, May 2012. Paper: Widening the and Change in Jewish Families," (with Alex public sphere: new actors for a new social Pomson) Presented at Association for Jewish contract. Studies Conference, Chicago, December 18, ! Taglit-Birthright Israel. An Academic 2012. Symposium, Brandeis University and The ! "Jews Outside the Conventional Narrative." Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Session Respondent at Association for Jewish July 2013. Discussant of session: Taglit's Studies Conference. Impact on Jewish Communities Worldwide. ! Attended the two last Israeli Presidential Conferences Facing Tomorrow: "To Be Jewish": The Challenge of Being Jewish in the Diaspora, June 2012 and "The Tomorrow of the 20%: Jewish Communities Outside Israel and the United States,” June 2013.

International Editorial Committees ! Hagira-Israel Journal of Migration, 2012. ! Socio-Maison Des Sciences de l´Homme, 2012.

Deborah Dash Moore University of Michigan Ira M. Sheskin ! The Foundation for held its University of Miami, Geography and Director annual Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue gala on Monday, June 10, 2013, at The and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary TimesCenter, honoring the award-winning Judaic Studies historian Deborah Dash Moore. The Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards honor Books: luminaries who keep contemporary Jewish ! (with Arnold Dashefsky) (Editors) The culture rich, vibrant, and relevant. American Jewish Year Book (2013) (Dordrecht: Springer).

Publications ! (with Harriet Hartman) "The (Dis)similarity of a Minority Religion to its Broader Religious 11 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

Context: The Case of American Jews,” Chaim I. Waxman Review of Religious Research (2013). Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University ! “Uses of Local Jewish Community Study Data for Addressing National Concerns,” ! Chaim I. Waxman was Dorset Fellow at the Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 33, Nos. 1-2 (2013) Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish pp. 83-101. Studies, Yarnton Manor, Yarnton, Oxford, ! (with Arnold Dashefsky) "Jewish from January-March 2013, where he Population in the United States, 2012," in participated in the Oxford Seminar in Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. Advanced Jewish Studies on the theme, (Editors) American Jewish Year Book, 2012) "Orthodoxy, Theological Debate, and (Dordrecht: Springer) pp. 143-208. Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration ! (with Micah Liben) “The People of of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis the Nook: Jewish Use of the Internet” in The Jacobs." During his time there, he gave a Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, number of seminar talks and lectures, among Identities, Practices and Politics (Stanley D. them: "Adapting While Decrying Change: The Brunn, editor) (Dordrecht: Springer, Case of American ," Oxford forthcoming 2014). Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Presentations Oriental Institute, Feb. 13, 2013; "The ! (with Arnold Dashefsky) “Outside the Religious Factor in American Jewish Identity," Mainstream of Judaism: An Empirical David Patterson Seminar, Oxford Seminar in Examination of American Jewish Secularism,” Advanced Jewish Studies, Oxford Centre for Association for the Sociology of Religion, New Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor, York (2013). Feb. 13, 2013; "Is Religion Necessary for ! “The Future of the Jewish Population of the Jewish Ethnicity? An American Case Study," United States,” The Sue and Leonard Miller Oxford Seminar in Jewish Studies, Oxford Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University Chabad Society, Feb. 17, 2012; Miami (2013). "Orthodox Judaism in Transition: An ! “The Changing Intraurban Spatial Oxymoron?" Oxford Seminar in Advanced Distribution of American Jews,” Association Jewish Studies, Oxford Centre for Hebrew for Jewish Studies, Boston (2013). and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor, Feb. 21, 2013; and, "Conversion - Conflict & Context." Paper presented in the series, "Arguments for Heaven's Sake!" ORT Conference Centre, London, March 10, 2013. He also served as Chair/Respondent in the session on "Orthodoxy, Gender, and Social Issues," at the Symposium on "Orthodox Judaism and Theology in the 21st Century," Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Yarnton Manor, Yarnton, Oxford, Jan. 24, 2013.

Publications ! "Multiculturalism, Conversion, and the Future of Israel as a Modern State," Israel Studies Review, Vol. 28, Issue 1, Summer 2013: 33-53. 12 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 ! He has also edited a volume of his father's Session at essays, Shvilei Nissan by Rabbi Nissan the Association for the Sociology Waxman, which is published by Mossad of Religion (ASR) Harav Kook (5773/2013). T he session is co-sponsored by the Presentations Association for the Social Scientific Study ! "The Americanization of Orthodoxy." at the of Jewry and the Berman Jewish DataBank. "International Conference on Ultra-Orthodoxy Between Modernity and Post-Modernity," Van Title: Jewish Experiences outside the Leer Jerusalem Institute, December 31, 2012. Mainstream ! Chaired the session on "The Role of Religiosity and Ethnicity in Israel-Diaspora Organizers: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Relations," at the Seventh International Connecticut) and Harriet Hartman (Rowan Symposium of the Klal Yisrael Symposium, University and the Association for the Social "Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations," Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ)) Tel-Aviv University, January 7, 2013. ! Chaired the session on "Taglit's Impact on Convener: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Jewish Communities Worldwide," at Connecticut) "Taglit-Birthright Israel: An Academic Symposium," The Hebrew University, June Strong Currents in the Mainstream: Ascribed 12, 2013. and Achieved Concepts of Jewish Identity, ! "The Conversion Quagmire: Religious, Shirah Hecht (Gratz College) Political, and Bureaucratic Elements," Annual Seminar for Young Russian Diplomats, Harry Identity Formation in Emerging Adulthood: S. Truman Research Institute for the Religious and Professional Selves Compared, Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Bethamie Horowitz (NYU Steinhardt) July 1, 2013. Claiming Conscience: The Military Chaplaincy, Morton Weinfeld the American Rabbinate and the Vietnam McGill University War, Ronit Stahl (University of Michigan)

Publication Outside the Mainstream of Judaism: An ! "Canadian Jews, Dual/Divided Loyalties, Empirical Examination of American Jewish and the Tebbit "Cricket" Test, in Canadian Secularism, Arnold Dashefsky (University of Ethnic Studies, vols 43-44, nos. 3-1, Connecticut) and Ira Sheskin (University of 2011-2012, pp. 59-80. Miami)

Presentation Discussant: Harriet Hartman (Rowan He will be presenting a paper (with Randal University) Schnoor) at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem at the end of July, 2013, Date and Time: Sunday, August 11, 2013, dealing with the strengths and weaknesses -- 12:30-2:20 p.m. mainly the latter - of the Canadian census as an instrument for counting Jews.„ Place: Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel, New York City „ 13 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 ASSJ Sklare Award T he Marshall Sklare Award is an annual honor of the Association for the Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ). The ASSJ seeks to recognize "a senior scholar who has made a significant scholarly contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry." In most cases, the recipient has given a scholarly address. In recent years, the honored scholar has presented the address at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies. The award is named in memory of the "founding father of American Jewish sociology" Marshall Sklare (1912-1992), who had been Klutznick Family Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology at Brandeis University. „

Sklare Award Winners 1992 Sidney Goldstein (Brown, demography) 1993 Seymour Martin Lipset (Hoover Institute and George Mason University, sociology) 1994 Celia Heller (NYU, history) 1995 Daniel Elazar (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Temple University, and Bar Ilan University, political science) 1996 Samuel Klausner (University of Pennsylvania, sociology) 1997 Walter Zenner (SUNY at Albany, anthropology) 1998 Bernard Reisman (Brandeis, communal service) 1999 Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University, demography) 2000 Charles Liebman (Bar Ilan, political science) 2001 Calvin Goldscheider (Brown, sociology and demography) 2002 Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis, history) 2003 Samuel Heilman (CUNY, sociology) 2004 Egon Mayer (Brooklyn College, sociology) 2005 Elihu Katz (University of Pennsylvania and Hebrew University, communications) 2006 Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan, history) 2007 Barry Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago, economics) 2008 Paul Ritterband (Haifa University, sociology) 2009 Charles Kadushin (Brandeis, sociology) 2010 Steven M. Cohen (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) 2011 Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota, anthropology) 2012 Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University, social psychology) 2013 Morton Weinfeld (McGill University, Sociology) „ ASSJ Berman Award T he Mandell L. Berman Service Award is given periodically to a civic or business leader or an academic for a career of distinguished commitment to the social scientific study of Jews either through service or financial support of such research. Named for a great philanthropist and supporter of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry and various other research entities, the Berman Service Award recognizes the work of leaders in many sectors of the Jewish community whose efforts have advanced the social science of Jewry. „

Berman Award Winners 2010 Mandell “Bill” Berman Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 Irene and Eddie Kaplan (Washington, DC) 2012 Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut, Storrs, Sociology) 2013 Rela Mintz Geffen, Gratz College „

More information on the 2013 awardees to follow in the December 2013 Newsletter. 14 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 The ASSJ T he Association for the Social Scientific Vice-president Study of Jewry is a cross-disciplinary Sergio DellaPergola, The Hebrew University organization whose research concerns the of Jerusalem Jewish people throughout the world. Treasurer The ASSJ encourages and facilitates Bruce Phillips, HUC-JIR, University of contact among researchers, supports the Southern California dissemination of research, and assists in the cultivation of younger scholars. Secretary The organization's journal, Contemporary Matthew Boxer, Brandeis University Jewry, is issued three times per year. All social science disciplines are represented, Board members including anthropology, demography, Barry Chiswick, George Washington economics, geography, history, Jewish University education, political science, social Lila Berman Corwin, Temple University psychology, social work, and sociology. Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota Our members are primarily academics, but Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University also policy analysts, communal professionals Randal Schnoor, York University and activists, and are engaged in a wide range of scholarly activity, applied research, Contemporary Jewry editor and the links between them. www.assj.org „ Samuel Heilman, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

Newsletter editor Ira Sheskin, University of Miami

Immediate Past-President Harriet Hartman, Rowan University

ASSJ Institutional Members Israeli representative ! Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies Lilach Lev-Ari, Oranim Academic College (Brandeis University) ! Frankel Center for Advanced Jewish European representative Studies (University of Michigan) Jonathan Boyd, Institute for Jewish Policy ! Center for Judaic Studies and Research Contemporary Jewish Life and the North American Jewish Data Bank (University of Latin American representative Connecticut) (now the Berman Jewish Judit Liwerant, National Autonomous DataBank University of Mexico ASSJ Executive Board Australia-New Zealand representative President David Graham, University of Sydney, Australia Steven M. Cohen, HUC-JIR Student representative Moshe Kornfeld, University of Michigan „ 15 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 ASSJ Book Series at the U of Nebraska T he first book of the series will appear within the year, and several others are currently in preparation. Send all proposals to Harriet Hartman, Series editor.

The editorial board includes:

Regine Azria, L'Ecole des Haute Etudes en Science Sociales, France Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University, USA Judith Bokser Liwerant, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Samuel Heilman, Queens College NY, USA Debra Kaufman, Northeastern University, USA Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College, USA Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University, USA Diane Wolf, University of California at Davis „

Contemporary Jewry C ontemporary Jewry, the journal of the ASSJ, serves as the single source for the social scientific consideration of world Jewry, its institutions, trends, character, and concerns. In its pages can be found work by leading scholars and important new researchers from around the world. While much relevant scholarship about Jewry is published in general social science journals, as well as more narrowly focused periodicals, no other single scholarly journal focuses primarily on the social scientific study of Jewry.

Over 450 articles have been published in the 33 volumes (50 issues) of Contemporary Jewry since its inception in 1975. The distinguished editorial board reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of the journal. www.springer.com/humanities/religious+studies/journal/12397

Table of Contents for Contemporary Jewry, Volume 33, Numbers 1-2 (April-July 2013).

Special Issue: Jewish Demography in the United States

! Editor's Introduction for the Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States, Samuel Heilman ! Editorial Notes, Introduction: Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States, Leonard Saxe, Sergio DellaPergola ! Shaping Demographic Research on American Jewry, Sidney Goldstein ! How Many Jews in the United States? The Demographic Perspective, Sergio DellaPergola ! Estimating and Understanding the Jewish Population in the United States: A Program of Research, Leonard Saxe, Elizabeth Tighe ! Using Consumer Panels to Understand the Characteristics of US Jewry, Matthew Boxer, Janet Krasner Aronson, Leonard Saxe ! Uses of Local Jewish Community Study Data for Addressing National Concerns, Ira M. Sheskin 16 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 ! New Demographic Perspectives on Studying Intermarriage in the United States, Bruce A. Phillips ! Latin American Jews in the United States: Community and Belonging in Times of Transnationalism, Judit Bokser Liwerant ! Enhanced Agency for Recent Jewish Migrants to the United States, Steven J. Gold

On-line First ! Innocuous Ignorance?: Perceptions of the American Jewish Population Size, Daniel Herda

Editor-in-Chief: Samuel Heilman, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York Managing Editor: Deborah Grant, Brandeis University

Editorial Board: Harriet Hartman, Rowan University Richard Alba, CUNY Graduate Center William Helmreich, CUNY City College David Assaf, Tel Aviv University Charles Kadushin, Brandeis University Joelle Bahloul, Indiana University Debra Kaufman, Northeastern University Sara Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College, LA Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University Yoram Bilu, Hebrew University Ariela Keysar, Trinity College Paul Burstein, University of Washington Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, NYU Barry R. Chiswick, George Washington Barry Kosmin, Trinity College University Deborah Dash Moore, University of Carmel Chiswick, George Washington Michigan University Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College, LA Steven M. Cohen, Hebrew Union College, NY Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew University Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut, Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University Storrs Theodore Sasson, Middlebury College Sergio DellaPergola, Hebrew University Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University Adam Ferziger, Bar-Ilan University William Shaffir, McMaster University Menachem Friedman, Bar-Ilan University Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Rela Mintz Geffen, Gratz College Ira Sheskin, University of Miami Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan Chaim I. Waxman, Professor Emeritus Allen Avi Glicksman, Philadelphia from Rutgers University Corporation for Aging Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University Yaacov Yadgar, Bar-Ilan University „ Deborah Grant, Brandeis University 17 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 The Jewish Journal of Sociology

n November 2012 Keith Kahn-Harris was appointed as the new editor of the Jewish Journal I of Sociology, taking over from Stanley Waterman.

Kahn-Harris is a London-based sociologist. He teaches social research methods at Birkbeck College, University of London and the Open University. He is an honorary fellow of the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and an associate fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

Kahn-Harris has been conducting research on contemporary Jewry since the mid-1990s. He is co-author (with Ben Gidley) of Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today (Continuum 2010) and Judaism: All That Matters (Hodder Education 2012). He is currently working on a book on divisions over the issue of Israel in the Jewish community. He has also authored numerous reports for Jewish communal institutions. A full list of publications can be found at his website and blog www.kahn-harris.org.

Under Keith Kahn-Harris's editorship, The Jewish Journal of Sociology will stay faithful to its missions, as stated in its first issue in 1959: “This Journal has been brought into being in order to provide an international vehicle for serious writing on Jewish social affairs. Academically we address ourselves not only to sociologists, but to social scientists in general, to historians, to philosophers, and to students of comparative religion.' All articles and research notes are peer-reviewed and of the highest quality. The journal welcomes submissions in the broad area of the social scientific study of contemporary Jewry, as well as related fields.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Jewish Journal of Sociology: The Relevance of the Jewish Question in the 21st Century. Editors: Ilan Zvi Baron (Durham University) and Keith Kahn-Harris (Editor, Jewish Journal of Sociology)

In post-enlightenment Europe, both Jewish and non-Jewish political thought was preoccupied by what came to be called the Jewish Question. The Jewish Question asked what the appropriate status of Jews should be within the nation state and in particular whether Jewish 'separateness' could be maintained. There were a variety of answers given to this question, including: the creation of a nation state for the Jews, forms of autonomy within multi-ethnic states, radical assimilation, the relegation of Jewish difference to the private sphere, and the anti-Semitic removal of all Jewish difference from the body politic of the nation state.

By the middle of the 20th Century, the Question appeared to have been resolved. Two particular moments were key: the declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 and its recognition by the United Nations; and the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10th of the same year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The first moment created a Jewish nation state where Jews could achieve sovereignty as Jews. The second officially recognized the rights of minorities such as Jews within nation states. 1948 embedded both national and Diaspora-based answers to the Jewish Question within international law and the nation state system.

Today, in the 65th year of the State of Israel, the Zionist answer to the Jewish Question has demonstrated its success. Israel is now the country with the largest Jewish population in the world and has become a pillar in the construction of modern Jewish identity. The Diaspora-focused answer to the Jewish Question has also been successful in at least some countries, especially 18 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 in North America and Western Europe, where Jews have become a prosperous minority without being threatened by officially-sanctioned anti-Semitism.

However, both of these answers have led to unforeseen complications. Being Jewish can mean different things to Israelis than to Diaspora Jews. Moreover, the security issues in the Jewish State remain intensely controversial. Nor have fears about anti-Semitism, assimilation, and Jewish disappearance receded, particularly in the Diaspora.

It is worth asking therefore, how far the underlying assumptions that framed the Jewish Question remain valid. The debates that frame Diaspora/Israel relations are often predicated on an assumption that it is only within the nation state system that Jews can find a political space. Does the answer to the Jewish Question still lie within the nation state system? Have the Jewish Question's core spatial assumptions led to the creation of questions that cannot be answered on their own terms? Indeed, have the Jews always been politically a spatial people? What kinds of alternative political spaces exist and have existed for the Jews? Are there temporal themes that the spatially-focused Jewish Question has ignored? Indeed, is the Jewish Question even still relevant in the age of Israel? What unforeseen challenges have the assimilationist and Zionist answers created? How did a stateless people end up framing a question so tied to state-based political futures and what does the Question have to say about the Diaspora?

The Jewish Journal of Sociology invites papers to explore the relevancy and/or meaning(s) of the Jewish Question today, from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Articles should be between 6-8,000 words and will be subject to peer review.

The Special Issue will be published in the second half of 2014. Expressions of interest and completed articles should be sent to Ilan Zvi Baron ([email protected]) or Keith Kahn-Harris ([email protected]).

Announcing the early publication of the Jewish Journal of Sociology Chronicle section: '2012: The Year in Social Research on Jews and Jewish Life'

It has been a longstanding practice of The Jewish Journal of Sociology to produce a regular 'Chronicle' section featuring news about Jewish social research. In this year's volume of the journal, the Chronicle section has been published on-line in advance of the print edition.

This year's Chronicle is entitled '2012: The Year in Social Research on Jews and Jewish Life'. It has been produced by the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner (BJPA). Included are summaries of 68 pieces of empirical research (both quantitative and qualitative) that appeared in 2012. While most of these pieces of research derive from the United States, it also includes research conducted in the UK, Israel, the Former Soviet Union, Sweden, and elsewhere. The wide breadth of research embraces public opinion research, evaluation research, basic research, policy analyses, institutional reports, Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses, and Jewish population studies.

BJPA is publishing the Chronicle simultaneously with the Jewish Journal of Sociology. www.bjpa.org and www.jewishjournalofsociology.org/index.php/jjs/index „ 19 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

he Berman Jewish DataBank (BJDB), formerly the North American Jewish Data Bank is the T central repository of social scientific studies of North American Jewry. See the front page article for more information on this change. www.jewsishdatabank.org

New and Notable ! 2013 Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts, Ira M. Sheskin, Sponsor(s): Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundation, The Jewish Federations of North America. Note: This is a new version that includes the latest results from New York and Cleveland. ! Jewish Population in the United States, 2012, Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, Sponsor(s): American Jewish Year Book, Berman Jewish DataBank. ! World Jewish Population, 2012, Sergio DellaPergola, Sponsor(s): American Jewish Year Book, Berman Jewish DataBank. ! Jewish Community Study of New York 2011, Steven M. Cohen, Jacob B. Ukeles, Ron Miller, Pearl Beck, Svetlana Shmulyian, David Dutwin, Sponsor: UJA-Federation of New York. ! East Bay Jewish Community Study 2011, Anna Greenberg, Sponsor(s): Jewish Federation & Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay ! Jewish Community Study of Greater Milwaukee 2011, Stephen L. Percy, Sponsor(s): Milwaukee Jewish Federation, The Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust, The Helen Bader Foundation.

Featured Publication A Tale of Four Cities: Learning About Jewish Community, Jacob B. Ukeles, Sponsor(s): Ukeles Associates, Inc. „

Visitor Downloads Most Downloaded Files (July - June 2013) US Jewish Population 2010 and 2011 and 2012 (Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky) 36,159 World Jewish Population 2010 and 2012 (Sergio DellaPergola) 22,606 FAQ on Jewish Population Size (Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin, and Ron Miller) 3,638 Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts (Ira Sheskin) 3,179 Jewish Maps of the United States (Joshua Comenetz) 2,097 FAQ on Intermarriage (Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin, and Ron Miller) 1,861 Young Adults in the US Today (Jacob B. Ukeles, Ron Miller, and Pearl Beck) 1,636 Recent Trends in Jewish Demographics and Their Impact on the Jewish Media (Ira Sheskin) 1,558 20 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

he Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner (bjpa.org) offers a vast digital collection of T policy-relevant research and analysis on Jewish life to the public, free of charge, with holdings of over 16,500 publications spanning from 1900 until today. BJPA’s powerful search functionality allows students, researchers, educators, professionals, and others to access the most relevant content with ease. Prominent within the archive is the entire collection of two journals: The Journal of Jewish Communal Service and Sh’ma: a Journal of Jewish Ideas. Many documents from the American Jewish Committee (AJC) are also archived, including materials from the American Jewish Year Book. BJPA hosts large collections of material by Charles Liebman z"l, Daniel Elazar z"l, and Leonard Fein (shlita).

Recent notable publications include "Toward Transparency: An Analysis of the 2012 Jewish Communal Professional Compensation Survey"; "Breaking for Change: How Jewish Service- learning Influences the Alternative Break Experience"; "Big Tent Judaism Professional Affiliates Evaluation of the Pilot Cohort"; "Effective Strategies for Educating and Engaging Jewish Teens: What Jewish Communities Can Learn from Programs That Work"; "2011 Census Results (England and Wales): Initial Insights into Jewish Neighbourhoods"; and "Teaching and Learning about Israel: Assessing the Impact of Israeli Faculty on American Students."

BJPA produces monthly Reader’s Guides on topics such as & Kehillot; Secular Jews & Secular Judaism; Jewish Politics; Jewish Languages; Jewish Philanthropy; and more. Sign up for our mailing list at bjpa.org, and register for a free user account. Registration is not required to use the archive, but registered users can create a “Bookshelf” of BJPA materials to be saved and shared, or to gather bibliographical information easily, as well as save customized user preferences and upload documents for submission to the archive. We further invite you to submit materials for inclusion on BJPA to [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/bjparchive and on Facebook at facebook.com/bjparchive.

Top 20 Downloads

1. Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy (Haym Soloveitchik)

2. The Limmud International Study: Jewish Learning Communities on a Global Scale (Steven M. Cohen, Ezra Kopelowitz)

3. Profiling the Professionals: Who's Serving Our Communities? (Steven M. Cohen)

4. Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation from Israel (Steven M. Cohen, Ari Y. Kelman)

5. Camp Works: The Long-Term Impact of Jewish Overnight Camp (Steven M. Cohen, Ron Miller, Ira M. Sheskin, Berna Torr) 21 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 6. Jewish Population in the United States, 2011 (Ira Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky)

7. Generation of Change: How Leaders in their Twenties and Thirties are Reshaping American Jewish Life (Jack Wertheimer)

8. Moving Beyond the Limited Reach of Current "Social Media" Approaches: Why Jewish Digital Communities Require Rich and Remixable Narrative Content (Owen Gottlieb)

9. Language Syncretism and the Hybridization of Religious Jewish Identity in Postmodern America (Chaya Nove)

10.Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Descent: The Gender Imbalance in American Jewish Life (Sylvia Barack Fishman, Daniel Parmer)

11. Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenges to Its Establishment: An Interview with Marc B. Shapiro (Manfred Gerstenfeld, Marc B. Shapiro)

12. The Jewish Demography of Florida (Ira M. Sheskin)

13. Workmen's Circle / Arbeter Ring 2012 American Jews' Political Values Survey (Steven M. Cohen, Samuel Abrams)

14. Defining Israel Education (Bethamie Horowitz)

15. Building a Base of Reform : An Impact Study of Three Youth Programs (Samantha M. Pohl)

16. Three Questions: Orthodoxy's Power, and After (Yehudah Mirsky)

17. Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora (Mark Tolts)

18. Sh'ma January 2012: The Jewish Electorate 2012--Complete Issue

19. Creating an Open Orthodox Rabbinate (Dov Linzer, Avi Weiss)

20. The Future of Reform Jewry: An Interview with Rabbi David Ellenson (David Ellenson, Manfred Gerstenfeld) „ 22 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 Members in the News

Sarah Benor www.jidaily.com/ae7f1?utm_source=Jewish+Ideas+Daily+Insider&utm_campaign=53fe6b30a2-I nsider&utm_medium Sarah Benor on Orthodox Culture & Linguistics, Posted on February 18, 2013 by Alan Brill.

Sergio DellaPergola The Atlantic - March 8, 2013 Soon, Israel Will No Longer Be a Majority Jewish State http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/soon-israel-will-no-longer-be-a-majority -jewish-state/273830/ Israel Has Three Choices: Being a Jewish state, a democracy, or possessing all of its historical territory. It can't have all three By S. Daniel Abraham

Yoel Finkelman Orthodox Schooling: What Do We Know? by Yoel Finkelman 80 percent of American Jewish day school students are Orthodox, but there is little research on the state of Orthodox education-because the Orthodox community has never funded it. Read "Orthodox Schooling: What Do We Know?" online at: http://www.jidaily.com/orthodoxschoolingwhatdoweknow

Samuel Heilman Sam appeared on: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly: Cutting-edge news coverage and analysis in the context of religion and ethics. http://video.pbs.org/video/2365009132

He was also interviewed on 30 Rock with Brian Williams just before the show was cancelled.

Bruce Phillips http://theautry.org/exhibitions/jews-in-the-los-angeles-mosaic

Jonathan Sarna Was quoted in “Rabbi David Hartman, Champion of an Adaptive Judaism, Dies at 81. Jonathan D. Sarna, a professor of American at Brandeis University, described the Hartman Institute as “a little island of pluralism amidst a sea of what was often religious fanaticism,” but noted that “he had to establish his own institutions precisely because, unlike Soloveitchik, he was not really welcomed” by Israel’s religious establishment.

Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky Articles featuring both Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky about the revival of the American Jewish Year Book appeared in The Forward, the Sun Sentinel, and the Jewish Journal. 23 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 Job Announcements B randeis University. Brandeis University seeks a Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, commencing summer 2014. The Director is expected to be a distinguished scholar of international stature whose work has advanced the study of Israel and who has the capacity to provide visionary leadership to an interdisciplinary academic center that is engaged with other centers and departments. The Director will be appointed to the Brandeis faculty with the academic unit, rank and tenure status appropriate to the appointee's scholarly and professional accomplishments. The Schusterman Center has a significant annual operating budget that is supported by a dedicated endowment, ongoing grants, and additional funds raised annually. The Center is an international leader in the developing field of Israel studies. Its participants include departmental faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, economics, fine arts, history, Israel studies, Judaica, literature, political science, and sociology. The Center Director reports directly to the Provost. For more information on the Center, and to view a detailed Job Description for the Director, please visit: http://www.brandeis.edu/provost/adhoc/schusterman.html.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to Schusterman Director Search, Office of the Provost, Mailstop 134, P.O. Box 549110, Waltham, MA. 02454-9110, or via email to [email protected] with subject line "Schusterman Center Search." Initial consideration of applicants will begin on March 15, 2013, and continue until the position is filled. Brandeis University is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. „ ASA Meeting

At the Annual Meeting of the ASA in New York on "Sociology of Anti-semitism"

Convener: Arnold Dashefsky, Professor of Sociology and Konover Chair of Judaic Studies Emeritus, University of Connecticut; Director Emeritus and Senior Academic Consultant, Berman Jewish DataBank, [email protected]

Purpose: To examine emerging research and instructional opportunities in this area with other colleagues. I am currently engaged in research on this topic (with David Kremelberg) and also have developed a new course that I am teaching in this subject area at UConn (with the support of an award from the Provost).

Date and Time: Monday, August 12, 2013, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Place: Sheraton New York Hotels and Towers, Meeting Room: Conference Room B. „ 24 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 National Council on Family Relations Religion and Family Life Section Call for Proposals

Meeting is November 6-9, 2013 in San Antonio, TX. Proposals were due March 1, 2013

The RFL Section seeks to explore the connections between religion and the family and solicits diverse proposals for all formats that examine how religion is related to individual and family well-being. The conference theme certainly is relevant for religion and family scholars, and we also welcome all submissions addressing any of the broad topics associated with religion and the family. 2013 is the 75th anniversary of NCFR so we are hoping to have a record numbers of submissions for the conference and our section.

Research on how religion affects individuals and families has been increasing in recent years, but the links between religion and family relationships remain vastly under investigated. Thus we encourage a wide range of innovative proposals that provide empirical data describing religion-family associations in diverse family structures, from varied religious traditions, at multiple points through the lifespan, among different levels of family systems, and with different methodological strategies or theoretical perspectives. We also welcome conceptual and theoretical papers that offer explanations of how religion influences relationship formation, stability, and functioning, for better or worse. In addition, we will accept practice-oriented presentations that address relevant policy issues or that help educators and therapists utilize integrative interventions that are both efficacious and ethical.

Students, new professionals, and established scholars are encouraged to submit proposals. Cash awards are presented for the Outstanding Paper and the Student/New Professional Outstanding Paper.

Contact: Joanne Roberts Professor and Chair Department of Sociology Hardin Simmons University P.O. Box 16216 Abilene, TX 79698 Phone: 325-670-5863 Fax: 325-670-5865 Email: [email protected] „ 25 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1 Funding Sources

Fulbright Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowships for American Researchers in All Academic Disciplines

The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright commission for Israel, offers 8 fellowships to American post-doctoral researchers in support of work to be carried out at Israeli universities during the course of the 2014/2015-2015/2016 academic years.

The US Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program is open to candidates in all academic disciplines.

Program grants total $40,000, $20,000 per academic year.

Program fellows must be accepted as post-doctoral researchers by Israeli host institutions, which agree to provide them with a standard post-doctoral grant, which they will receive in addition to their Fulbright Fellowship.

Thus, the total financial support received by Program Fellows is likely to be in the range of at least $35,000-$40,000 per year. Applications for 2014/2015-2015/2016 Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowships must be submitted to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars by August 1, 2013.

Further details on the program and on application procedures may be found at: http://fulbright.org.il/en/?page_id=1024; http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward.aspx?n=4397&dc=IS; http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/Application.htm.

Potential candidates should contact Ms. Judy Stavsky, Deputy Director, USIEF ([email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]); +972-3-517-2392) for advice and assistance. „ 26 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Volume 5 Number 1

The Feinstein Center is pleased to announce a new collection of oral histories entitled "Jews and Leftist Politics in Philadelphia." The collection of twenty-seven interviews is housed at the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, Special Collections Research Center, Paley Library, Temple University. For more information on the collection including an online guide, please visit the Feinstein Center website, www.temple.edu/feinsteinctr.

Fellowships

The Feinstein Center at Temple University announces its annual summer fellowship to support research in the American Jewish experience.

The grant of up to $3,000 is available to predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars.

The Feinstein Center welcomes applicants researching any area of American Jewish life. Applications should include a proposal of no more than five pages, a letter of recommendation on university letterhead, and a CV. Materials are due by March 14, 2014 to:

Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Temple University, 916 Gladfelter Hall (025-24) 1115 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6089

Announcement of awards will be made in June. Email submissions requested. Send questions and submissions to [email protected].

Congratulations to the 2013 Feinstein Center Summer Fellows: Zalman Newfield (New York University) Kevy Kaiserman Memorial Summer Fellow. Between the Sacred and the Secular: Communal Continuity and Change in Contemporary Lubavitch Society.

Feinstein Fellows: Zev Eleff (Brandeis University) Joshua Furman (University of Maryland) Britt P. Tevis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) „ הרשות למחקר ולהערכה Jewish Educational Tourism: Multiple Origins, Paths and Destinations

Thursday July 25, 2013

Oranim Academic College of Education, co-sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ)

תיירות חינוכית-יהודית: Jewish EducationalPre-conference Tourism: Study Day Program ריבוי ארצות מוצא, מעברים ויעדים Multiple10:00-10 :Origins,15 Registration Paths and Destinations 10:15-10:30 Greetings Prof. Lilach Lev Ari - Head of Research and Evaluation Department 25 ביולי, יום חמישי Thursday July and25, S2013tudy Day Convenor 2013 אורנים, המכללה האקדמית לחינוך, Oranim Academic College of Education, co-sponsored by בשיתוף עם האגודה למחקר סוציולוגי-מדעי של העם היהודי (the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ Prof. Yaara Bar-On - President of Oranim College

תכנית יום העיון Pre-conference10:30–12: 00Study Opening Day Program Session: Educational tourism between Israel and the Jewish World 10:00-10:15 התכנסות והרשמה Registration 10:00-10:15

10:15-10:30 ברכות GreetingsProf Steven Cohen, President ASSJ, moderating 10:15-10:30 פרופ׳ לילך לב ארי – ראשת הרשות למחקר ולהערכה ומארגנת יום העיון Prof. Lilach Lev Ari - Head of Research and Evaluation Department and Study פרופ׳ יערה בר-און – נשיאת מכללת אורנים Day Convenor Prof. YaarahProf. Bar-On David - President Mittelberg of Oranim: Urgent College questions, pressing problems and 10:30-12:00 מושב פתיחה emerging paradigms 10:30-12:00 תיירות חינוכית בישראל ובעולם היהודי OpeningDiscussant: Session: Ayelet Shiloh Tamir פרופ׳ סטיבן כהן, נשיא ה - ASSJ, מנחה המושב 12:00-Educational12:15 Coffee tourism Break between Israel and the Jewish World פרופ׳ דוד מיטלברג: שאלות מרכזיות, בעיות בוערות וצמיחתן של פרדיגמות Prof. Steven Cohen, President ASSJ, moderating מגיבה: גברת אילת שילה-תמיר Prof.– 13: David45 Second Mittelberg: Session Urgent: Vision questions,, Innovation pressing and problems Implementation and emerging 12:15 paradigms Prof. Yoel Mansfeld, moderating 12:00-12:15 הפסקת קפה Discussant: Ayelet Shiloh Tamir 12:15-13:45 מושב שני Coffee BreakDr. Yossi Beilin: Taglit-Birthright: Vision and implementation 12:00-12:15 חזון, חדשנות ויישום פרופ׳ יואל מנספלד, מנחה המושב :Second DSession:r. Raviv: Taglit-Birthright Israel's educational platform 12:15-13:45 ד״ר יוסי ביילין: תגלית - היזמה, היישום והלקחים Vision, Innovationfrom theory and to implementation Implementation ד״ר זהר רביב: המצע החינוכי של פרוייקט תגלית: בין תאוריה והחלה Prof. Yoel Mansfeld, moderating מר גדעון שביט: מעשרת אלפים תלמידי/ות תיכון מחו״ל בישראל - לעשרים Dr. Yossi Beilin: Taglit-Birthright: Vision and implementation אלף: תכנית ריאלית לעתיד : s Dr. e d uAriela c a t i o n aKe l pi lsar a t f o r m׳Dr. ZoharDiscussant Raviv: s Taglit-Birthright: Dr. Elan Ezrahi, Israel and מגיבים: ד״ר אילן אזרחי וד״ר אריאלה קיסר from theory to implementation 13:45-14:30 הפסקת צהריים 13:45-Mr.14: Gideon30 Lunch Shavit: Break How we can increase the number of high school age teens coming on Israel programs from abroad from 12,000 to 20,000 every year? 14:30-16:00 מושב שלישי - 14:30-Discussants:16:00 Third Dr. ElanSession Ezrahi,: The and scope Dr. Arielaand depth Keisar of Jewish educational tourism היקפה והשפעתה של תיירות חינוכית-יהודית: The state of research מצב המחקר :Lunch BreakProf. Sergio DellaPergola, moderating: Thoughts on core country 13:45-14:30 פרופ׳ סרג׳ו דלה-פרגולה, מנחה המושב Process, context, returns 14:30-16:00 Third Session: פרופ׳ אריק כהן: מה ״יהודי״ במחקר על אודות תיירות חינוכית-יהודית? The scope and depth of Jewish educational tourism - The state פרופ׳ לן סאקס: הערכה קפדנית ותפקידה בחינוך יהודי פרופ׳ יהודית בוקסר-ליברנט: מבט מאמריקה הלטינית of research מגיב: פרופ׳ בארי קוסמין ,Prof. Sergio DellaPergola, moderating: Thoughts on core country: Process context, returns 16:00-16:15 הפסקת קפה Prof. Eric H. Cohen: What is Jewish in Jewish educational tourism research? 16:15-17:30 מושב רביעי )שולחנות עגולים מקבילים( Prof. Len Saxe: Rigorous evaluation and its role in Jewish education א. חינוך באמצעות החוויה הישראלית: Prof. Judit Bokser-Liwerant: A view from Latin America גיוס משתתפים, תוכן, פוליטיקה Discussant: Prof. Barry Kosmin ד״ר עזרא קופלביץ׳, מנחה הדיון ד״ר דינה לרון: ממפגש לעמיות יהודית: פדגוגיה של נסיעה ומפגש במסגרת Coffee Break 16:00-16:15 פרוייקט תאומות בית ספרית )ישראלית-אמריקנית( (Fourth Session (Parallel Round Table Discussions 16:15-17:30 ד״ר שלומי רביד: כיצד יוצרים השפעות לטווח ארוך בטיול הקצר? a. Israel experience education: Recruitment, content, politics מר מאיר קראוס: תיירות חינוכית-יהודית: אתגרים וחשיבה אחרת Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz, moderating מגיב: מר אילן וגנר Dr. Dinah Laron: From mifgash to peoplehood: The pedagogy of travel and ב. מסעות ישראלים לעולם היהודי encounter within an Israeli-American school twinning initiative ד״ר משה שנר, מנחה המושב Dr. Shlomi Ravid: How do we ensure the long term impact of the short term ד״ר יעל גוטר: ״לימוד״ – צעד בכיוון של זהות יהודית ?experiential tourism מר אלי שיש: חיזוק התודעה היהודית ציונית באמצעות המסעות לפולין format and content: Some critical remarks ׳Mr. Meir Kraus: Educational trips מר רון כהן: משלחות יהודיות לפולין – גבולות השיח Discussant: Mr. Ilan Wagner ד״ר רוברטה בל-קליגלר: מישראל לגרמניה ובחזרה: מנהיגים יהודים לעתיד בדיאלוג, מפגש ועמיות b. Israeli journeys to the Jewish world Dr. Moshe Shner, moderating 17:30-18:00 מושב נעילה Dr. Yael Guter: Limmud - A step on the journey towards a Jewish identity פרופ׳ סטיבן כהן: תיירות חינוכית-יהודית - אתגרים וביקורת Mr. Eli Shaish: Non-formal education for Jewish identity through youth trips to Poland Mr. Ron Cohen: Israeli delegations to Poland: The boundaries of discourse Dr. Roberta Bell-Kligler: F r o m I s r a e l t o G e r m a n y a n d b a c k a g a i n : Future Jewish leaders in dialogue, mifgash and peoplehood 17:30-18:00 Concluding Session: Jewish educational tourism - Challenges and critique Prof. Steven Cohen: Jewish Educational Tourism יום העיון יתקיים במכללת אורנים, בית הדומי, קומה ד׳ )בית The conference will take place at Oranim College, in the HaDomi Building (Bldg. # 46), )46 בין השעות fourth floor, Between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM 18:00-10:00