Newsletter December 2015 Volume 7, Number 2 Ira M. Sheskin Editor, University of Miami

Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Director, Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies

Message from Steven M. Cohen, President

O ver the past several months, a number of developments of interest to ASSJ members have occurred. We undertook a shift in leadership and management of Contemporary Jewry. After years at the helm of CJ, Samuel Heilman of CUNY transferred the editorship to Harriet Hartman of Rowan University. We also engaged Helen Kim of Whitman College in Washington State as Research Editor, and Daniel Parmer of Brandeis University as Book Review Editor. After many years at the Cohen Center of Brandeis University where CJ benefitted enormously from the fine hand of Deborah Grant as managing editor, we transferred supervision of such activities to people working under Harriet - primarily as a cost-saving measure, but one that so far seems to be working. For proof-positive, please see the first issue of CJ that just appeared under Harriet's editorship. The ASSJ book series, which Harriet had been editing, is now in the hands of Rela Mintz Geffen of Gratz College, Philadelphia, and we look forward to new monographs in the series. And, as we see here in this issue of the ASSJ Newsletter, Ira Sheskin of the University of Miami continues his service on our behalf. Shelly Tenenbaum of Clark University completed her 3-year stint as head of the Association for Jewish Studies Social Science Division, whose responsibilities include helping select and organize papers for presentation at the AJS annual meetings. Bruce Phillips of HUC-JIR, LA has succeeded her. Bruce in turn, resigned as ASSJ treasurer and has been succeeded by Len Saxe of Brandeis. Meanwhile, Sergio DellaPergola resigned as vice president effective January 1, 2016, and the Board will select a successor, to be named.

Sklare Award Winner - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, p. 18 Berman Award Winner - Barry Shrage, p. 22 2 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Other ASSJ Board transitions took place. We elected new Board members: Helen Kim, Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz of JFNA, and Jennifer Thompson of California State University at Northridge. And we thank Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota), Shawn Landres, and Moshe Kornfeld for their years of exemplary service on the ASSJ Board. We also are very proud and honored to make this year's Marshall Sklare Award to Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett of NYU and the Polin Museum of Warsaw. Riv-Ellen Prell took the lead in advancing the nomination, and Randal Schnoor of York University, Toronto very ably has handled the Award logistics. We are also proud and honored to be making a Mandell L. Berman Service Award this year to Barry Shrage of Boston's Combined Jewish Philanthropy. Len Saxe advanced the nomination and raised a major gift (major for us!) to support the reception from the Adelson Foundation. This past June we conducted our first joint conference with the Network for Research in Jewish Education (NRJE). The event was so well-received that we have decided to undertake another one this June at Towson. Ari Kelman of Stanford University chaired last year's conference, and Sylvia Barack Fishman of Brandeis has agreed to chair the NRJE/ASSJ conference in 2016. For those of us who will be in Jerusalem on Monday, February 1, 2016, we are holding a small gathering of researchers for a day-long consultation on the "partially Jewish." Uzi Rebhun of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem is hosting the meeting. On behalf of the ASSJ, I extend our heartfelt thanks to all those named above. And I also apologize to several people who I overlooked who have contributed in so many other ways over the past several months.

And, certainly more important than all the work of the ASSJ per se is our teaching, our scholarship, our consulting, and our contributions to public discourse. While we have no reliable measures of our collective activity, my sense is that we constitute an unusually productive and constructive scholarly community. Moreover, we are a community of discourse that has been managing our healthy differences over findings, methods, and policy implications in a constructive fashion. (Although why some very smart and decent people don't automatically agree with my own interpretations of the evidence and policy positions continues to baffle me.) With all this said, we do face some critical challenges to our association, our profession, and our scholarship. In brief, perhaps the major challenge to our association is - banal as it may seem - to increase our membership. As should be readily apparent from the report above, we have done a more-than-decent job of expanding conversation and recruiting new talent to fill the various positions that needed filling. However, we have done little to replenish our membership. In the coming weeks and months, we are going to need to reach out to lapsed members, if not new members to expand our ranks. As for the profession, when I conducted the survey of Jewish studies scholars for the AJS, I learned that we in the social sciences exhibit the oldest age profile. Now, I really have nothing against scholars age 65 and older, but we need to be conscious of recruiting younger scholars both to our field and to the ASSJ. Last, I call our attention to numerous issues of communal and societal import that continue to merit our attention. We've provided a significant amount of research and other writing bearing upon various matters of Jewish continuity (intermarriage, educational impact, and related themes). But we have only begun to explore American Jews' changing and increasingly complex relationship with Israel. And we have hardly touched matters of poverty or, more broadly, social class, as well 3 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 as gender equity and a variety of critical social justice and social welfare concerns. These and other subject areas await our attention, as scholars and thought leaders. Obviously, I encourage all of us to contribute to this discussion, be it in the ASSJ Newsletter, CJ, at our scholarly meetings, public commentary, or informal channels. And I welcome your direct communication: [email protected]. „

Table of Contents

The American Jewish Year Book...... 4 ASSJ Book Series...... 24 New JPR Publications ...... 5 Contemporary Jewry ...... 27 Journal of Jewish Education ...... 6 Brandeis Publications...... 29 Upcoming Conferences...... 7 Berman Jewish Policy Archive...... 30 News from Members...... 8 Members in the News...... 31 ASSJ Sklare Award...... 17 News from U of Sydney ...... 34 ASSJ Berman Award...... 21 Book Flyer...... 23 The ASSJ...... 23 AJS Program 2015...... 23

New Judaic Studies Concentration at Rowan University

www.rowan.edu/colleges/chss/concentrations/jewishstudies/index.html

Harriet Hartman welcomes comments and suggestions

Along with the Rowan news about the Jewish Studies Concentration, there is also a newly established Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies as of November 2015. Dr. Stephen Hague is the coordinator, [email protected]. 4 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 American Jewish Year Book, 2015 T he American Jewish Year Book is published by Springer with the cooperation of The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. Edited by Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin. Part I of the 2015 volume to be published in December 2015 consists of seven chapters: ì Patterns of Adaptation Among Contemporary Jewish Immigrants to the US by Steven J. Gold, í Jewish Life on Campus: From Backwater to Battleground by Annette Koren, Leonard Saxe, and Eric Fleisch, î National Affairs: April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015 by Ethan Felson and Mark Silk,ï Jewish Communal Affairs: April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015 by Lawrence Grossman, ð Jewish Population in the United States, 2015 by Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky, ñ Jewish Population of Canada, 2015 by Charles Shahar, and ò World Jewish Population, 2015 by Sergio DellaPergola. In addition, the volume contains up-to-date listings of Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, Jewish social service agencies, national Jewish organizations, Jewish day schools, Jewish overnight camps, Jewish museums, Holocaust museums, Israeli consulates, national Jewish periodicals and broadcast media, local Jewish periodicals, Jewish studies, holocaust and genocide studies programs, Israel studies programs, as well as Jewish social work programs in institutions of higher education, major books, journals, and scholarly articles on the North American Jewish communities, websites and organizations for research on North American Jewry, and major Judaic research and holocaust research libraries. Finally, the volume contains a list of major events in the North American Jewish communities, a list of persons honored by the Jewish and general communities, and obituaries for the past year. „ 5 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 New Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) Publications S trictly Orthodox rising: What the demography of British Jews tells us about the future of the community

By Daniel Staetsky and Jonathan Boyd, Institute for Jewish Policy Research

In this report, we utilize the Census and Jewish communal data to explore how the numerical balance between the 'mainstream' and the strictly Orthodox (haredi) Jewish population is shifting over time, and what the age profiles and total fertility rates of both groups indicate about the future. In particular, we highlight how the haredi population is growing at an extraordinarily fast rate, due to its rare combination of high fertility and low mortality. By contrast, the non-haredi Jewish population is declining, not least due to its below replacement level fertility. We note how these measures, combined with an analysis of population momentum over time, help us to develop a probable picture of a future in which the haredi population will become an increasingly large part of the whole.

JPR's recent report "Britain's Israeli Diaspora: A demographic portrait" by David Graham, details for the first time, an analysis of data about the largest Jewish foreign-born group living in the UK. Using brand new data from the 2011 Census and other sources we demonstrate that for every two Jews leaving the UK for Israel, three Israelis move to the UK. This group is highly diverse and growing. It represents a potential boon to British Jewish society but also a challenge to Israel and its society.

Continuing JPR's effort to increase accessibility to Britain's 2011 Census data, David Graham has written a report entitled "Health and disability in Britain's Jewish population"the fifth in a census series. This edition provides accurate counts of the numbers of Jews in different age bands who suffer from a health condition or disability. Among the data, the report finds that approximately 2,000 Jewish children have some kind of limiting health condition, and that 5,600 Jews of working age are economically inactive due to long-term sickness or disability. „ 6 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 Journal of Jewish Education C all for Papers for Upcoming Themed Issue: Special Needs and Inclusion in Jewish Education

Intents to submit requested by January 1, 2016 Intents should be sent to [email protected] and should include the name of the author(s), author contact information, and a working title. Manuscripts due by June 1, 2016. Manuscripts should be submitted according to the instructions for Authors available at the Journal of Jewish Education website. Specific questions regarding submissions should be directed to [email protected].

The editors of the Journal of Jewish Education are interested in receiving papers that address and consider the phenomenon of Special Needs and Inclusion in Jewish Education. The field of Jewish special education is relatively new, and rapidly growing. Children have special educational needs if they have a learning challenge that calls for a special educational provision to be made for them.

We are interested in receiving thoughtful empirical investigations, whether in Special Needs and Inclusion in Jewish Education - that is, oriented to advancing the successful consideration of this subject-or research about this enterprise.

We are interested in papers from a range of disciplinary vantage points, including (but not limited to): the history and development of the field, the sociological consideration of the forces, factors, institutions and dynamics that come into play in advancing or impeding special needs and inclusion in a specific context or from a comparative perspective, investigations about the philosophical bases of the field, analyses of the pedagogical and curricular challenges that arise in the course of teaching and learning within Special Needs and Inclusion, empirical investigations of educational practices in Jewish education intended to engage learners with Special Needs. „ 7 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Upcoming Conferences

! ASSJ at the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 13-15, 2015 ! Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Brisbane, February 14-15, 2016 ! Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, Chapman University, March 18-19, 2016 ! Western Jewish Studies Association, Salem, OR, April 17-18, 2016 ! Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, Calgary, May 29-June 3, 2016 ! Network for Research in Jewish Education and ASSJ, Towson, MD, June 14, 2016 ! American Jewish Historical Society, New York, June 19-21. 2016 ! Institute for Israel Studies, Israel, June 20-22, 2016 ! Association for the Sociology of Religion, Seattle, August 19-21 ! American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 20-23, 2016

! Midwest Jewish Studies Association, TBA, 2016 ! Religious Research Association, TBA, 2016 ! Society for the Anthropology of Religion, No meeting in 2016 ! Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, TBA, 2016 ! ASSJ at the Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, December 18-20, 2016 ! World Union of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July or August 2017

Conference of the Network for Research in Jewish Education and ASSJ June 14-16, 2015, Towson University

The NRJE and the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry present The Joint Conference on Jewish Education. The conference will focus on presentations of basic and applied research, as well as practice-based research. To provide a variety of opportunities for engagement and conversation the conference will feature four formats for presentation: Paper, Spotlight Sessions, Roundtable, and Consultation. We invite proposals of individual papers or full panels, and we recognize that the most engaging panels are informed by both research and practice. For more on the submission process and application please click here. Proposals must be received by January 15, 2016. Link to Call for Papers 8 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 News from Members

Sarah Bunin Benor Reviews Hebrew Union College ! Benor, Sarah Bunin. 2015. Review of The Languages of the Jews, Bernard Spolsky, Sarah's primary research project is a Cambridge University Press, 2014. Language large-scale study of Hebrew at North in Society. American Jewish Summer Camps, with ! Benor, Sarah Bunin. 2015. Review of The Sharon Avni and Jonathan Krasner. They Languages of the Jews, Bernard Spolsky, recently completed their research, which Cambridge University Press, 2014. Marginalia included visits to 36 camps, interviews with Review of Books. 120 adults and 60 children, and a survey of 100 camp directors. Now they're in the Articles for Non-Academic Audiences process of analyzing data and writing. ! Benor, Sarah Bunin. 2015. "Wet, Hot, Hebrew-Infused American Summer." Learning Sarah continued to edit the Journal of Jewish About Learning: Brandeis Mandel Center Languages (with Ofra Tirosh-Becker), which Blog. just published a thematic double issue called "Language Contact and the Development of Refereed Conference Presentations Modern Hebrew," guest edited by Edit Doron. ! 12/15 "Hebrew at American Jewish The Jewish Language Research Website Summer Camps: The Role of Israel and continues to add content, including Swedish Israelis." Roundtable. Association for Jewish and Spanish versions of the Jewish English Studies 47, Boston. Lexicon (a French version is in the works), ! 3/15 "Postvernacular Ladino at Sephardic thanks to the collaboration of Joshua Adventure Camp." UC Ladino Symposium 4, Lebenswerd, Evelyn Dean-Olmsted, and UCLA. Cyril Aslanov. Invited Academic Conference / Colloquium Academic articles Presentations ! Benor, Sarah Bunin. In press. "Black and ! 9/15 "Ethnolinguistic Infusion: Hebrew at Jewish: Language and Multiple Strategies for American Jewish Summer Camps." Self-Presentation." American Jewish History, Colloquium, New York University, Linguistics likely 2016. Department. ! Benor, Sarah Bunin. 2015. "Jewish ! 3/15 "Mensch, Bentsh, and Balagan: English." In Handbook of Jewish Languages. American Jewish Language and Identity," Lily Kahn and Aaron Rubin, eds. Leiden: Brill. University of California, Berkeley. 130-137. ! 2/15 "Becoming Frum: How Newcomers ! Benor, Sarah Bunin. 2015. "How Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Synagogues Became Shuls: The Boomerang Judaism." Emory University, Tenenbaum Effect in Yiddish-Influenced English, Family Lecture in Judaic Studies. 1895-2010." In Germanic Heritage Languages in North America. Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joseph Salmons, eds. Series: Studies in Language Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 217-233. 9 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Alan and Gail Glicksman Steven Gold Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, Bryn Mawr Michigan State University College Paper Presentations ! 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the ! Transnational Families Session, Gerontological Society of America, November Discussant, Migration without Boundaries: An 2015 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Religious Affiliation and Older Adults: The Conference on Migration at Michigan State Changing Pattern of Jewish Americans University, October 10, 2015 Allen Glicksman [1],Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox ! Latin American Jewish Immigrants in the [2], Gail Glicksman [3] US, Jewish Studies Faculty and Student Re sea rc h Se m in a r, Co-S p o nso r, Older adults' identification with religious Chicano-Latino Studies, Michigan State communities has important consequences for University, September 18, 2015 health and service delivery. Many older adults ! Migration and Human Security in Global find support within their religious communities, Perspective, Discussant, International and many faith traditions maintain services for Migration Section Session, American older adults. Many faith groups rely on their Sociological Association Annual Meeting, members to contribute funds and volunteer Chicago, August 24, 2015 their time. However, research has shown a weakening of ties between individuals and formal faith communities. Among older Jewish Americans, increasing proportions do not identify with one of the denominations within American Judaism. We compared findings from the Pew 2013 Survey of American Jews with data from the 1990 and 2000/1 National Jewish Population Surveys. Comparisons and potential future trends are discussed, as well as the methodological challenges involved in comparing data from separate surveys. [1] Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, Harriet Hartman Philadelphia PA ! Ira M. Sheskin and Harriet Hartman. [2] University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida “Denominational Variations Across Jewish [3] Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. Communities,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 54, Number 2 (May 2015) p. 205-211. DOI:10.1111 /jssr ! Ira M. Sheskin and Harriet Hartman. "The Facts about Intermarriage," Journal of Jewish Identities, Volume 8, Number 1 (2015) pp. 51- 73.

Presentations ! Ira M. Sheskin and Harriet Hartman. "Community Context: Denominational Profiles of American Jewish Communities," AAG, San Francisco (2016). 10 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Bethamie Horowitz ! "What Being Religious in College Looks NYU Like in 2015," Noodle, July 30, 2015. ! Horowitz , Bethamie (2014). “Choosing to Teach: Identity and Agency among Beginning Presentations Teachers”. In Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Eran ! "Campus Anti-Semitism in the U.S. and the Tamir, and Karen Hammerness (Eds.). U.K.", Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Inspiring Teaching: Preparing Teachers to Massachusetts, December 13-15, 2015. Succeed in Mission-Driven Schools. . Harvard !"Combating Prejudice on Campus," Guest in Education Press. Residence, Cornell University, November 19, The book is based on a longitudinal 2015. study of three teacher preparation programs: ! "Bridging the Generation Gap: The Role of one focused on preparing teachers for Jewish Grandparents in Transmitting Jewish Identity," day schools, one focused on Catholic schools Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and one focused on urban public schools. We Annual Meeting, Newport Beach, California, followed 10 participants in each of these October 23-25, 2015. programs fro five years. My article addresses ! "Nominal Religion: On the Road to the limitations of "identity" in studying Secularization," Society for the Scientific teachers' lives over time. Instead I found Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Newport agency to be a more useful concept. Beach, California, October 23-25, 2015. ! "Israel Connections and the Jewish Family: Ariela Keysar A Case Study of American Jewish College Students in 2014," The Leffell Seminar on Trinity College The Impact of Israel on American Jewry, Westchester, New York, August 26-27, 2015. International Research ! "From Generation to Generation to ! U.S. Principal Investigator, Young adults Generation," organizer and panelist, and religion in a global perspective, YARG, Roundtable Session, Joint Conference on 2015-2018. Research in Jewish Education, New York, June 11, 2015. Expert Consultation ! The Future of World Religions: Population Webinar Growth Projections, 2010-2015, Pew ! "Jewish Identity Constructs," Gratz College, Research Center. October 18, 2015. Publications ! "Education, Gender, and Ethnicity in Religious and Non-religious Populations in the United States: A Response to James Lewis," (with Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi), in Journal of Contemporary Religion, 30(3), 497-503, 2015. ! "The International Demography of Atheists", in Yearbook of International Religious Demography, Brian J. Grim, Todd M. Johnson, Vegard Skirbekk and Gina A. Zurlo, Eds. UK: Brill, July 2015: 136-153. 11 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Barry Kosmin Research Project Trinity College ! JDC International Centre for Community Development, Paris, France, May - Publication November, 2015. Survey of European Jewish ! Barry A. Kosmin, Szarvas Leaders and Opinion Formers C a m p i n C o n t e x t : Understanding the Influence Laurence Kotler-Berkowtiz of Jewish Camping, JDC ! After Pew: Thinking about American Jewish International Centre for Community cohesion, assimilation and division. BJPA Development, Paris, France, May 2015. ! Phillips, Rick, Ryan T. Cragun and Barry A. Kosmin. 2015. "Increasing Sex Ratio Judit Bokser Misses- Liwerant Imbalance Among Utah Mormons: Sources Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Implications," Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 11 (article 12): 1-27. ! Member of the Mexican Academy of http://www.religjournal.com/ Science. ! Member of the National Research System. Expert Consultancy ! Distinguished Visiting Professor, The ! Pew Research Center Report, America's Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Changing Religious Landscape, May 2015 ! Director and Editor of the Mexican Journal of Political and Social Science, New Epoch. Conferences !"Views of Secularism," CFI Reason for Publications Change Conference Plenary, Amherst, NY, June 13, 2015 Books ! "Accounting for the Persistence of ! Bokser-Liwerant, J., DellaPergola, S., Anti-Semitism among the Intelligentsia," Senkman, L. and Y. Goldstein Latin ISGAP Summer Institute on Curriculum American Jewish Educator in a Transnational Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies, World. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, Hertford College, Oxford University, U.K., Mexico , Buenos Aires, 2015 (Spanish) August 4, 2015 ! "Resentment, Anxiety and Careerism: ! Community, Society and Politics. Past and Accounting for Antisemitism in the Academy Present Paths of Latin American Jews. and Among the Intelligentsia," Anti-Semitism Leiden-London, Brill, (work in process). in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series, Columbia Law School, November 11, 2015 Articles and Chapters of Books ! "Trajectories of America's Religious Future," ! “Globalization, Transnationalism, The Changing Religious Landscape Diasporas: facing new realities and Conference, Hartford Seminary, November conceptual challenges,” in Michel Wieviorka, 15, 2015 Lauren Lévi Strauss and Gwenaëlle Lieppe (Editors.), Penser global. Internationalization Oped et globalization des sciences humaines et !"Understanding and addre s sing sociales, Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Anti-Semitism on College Campuses," Francia, 2015, pp 309-336. Noodle.com, 3.25.15 12 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Israel: The Major Debates, 2 volumes, De Gruyter Editorial House (forthcoming). ! “Approaching Recurrences and Changes of Antisemitism in Latin America: the case of Mexico” (in collaboration with Yael Siman), in Tolerance or True Acceptance? North American Antisemitism, Steven K. Baum, Steven L. Jacobs and Florette Cohen (Editors), Boston and Leiden: Brill (forthcoming). ! “Modernity, Judaism and Multiple Modernities.: complexity, diversity and contradictions.” In Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, in Marla Planter et al, Modernity and Social Theory, Mexico, Universidad de Guadalajara, (Spanish, forthcoming)

Academic Editorial Articles ! "Power, Politics and Society. The Latin American Framework of Social Inequalities in a Global Context" (Sp), Revista Mexicana de ! “Transnational Expansions of Latin Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Facultad de American Jewish Life in Times of Migration: A Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, N. 223, mosaic of experiences in the United States,” January-April 2015, pp. 9-26. in Eli Lederhendler and Uzi Rebhun ! "Polychromy of disciplines: on Regions and (Editors.), Research in Jewish Demography Multiple Reconfigurations in a Global World" and Identity, Boston, Academic Studies Press, (Sp.) Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas 2015, pp 198-240. y Sociales, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y ! “Thinking "Múltiples Modernities" from Latin Sociales, UNAM, N. 224, May-August, 2015, America's Perspectives: complexity, periphery pp. 9-24. and diversity,” in Multiple Modernities in the ! "Today's Social Sciences: Between sinopias Contemporary Scene. A continuation of the and pentimenti" Revista Mexicana de Multiple Modernities Research Program, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Facultad de Michael Sussman and Gerhard Preyer Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, N. (Eds.), Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2015. 225m September- December 2015, pp. 9-20. ! “Expansion and interconnectedness of Jewish life in times (and spaces) of International Congresses Transnationalism. New realities, new ! Regional Congress of the Latin American analytical perspectives,” in Marta Topel and Jewish Studies Association, Jerusalem, Margalit Bejarano, The Jewish Communities (March 2015). Paper: Judeophobia and of Latin America, Bar Ilan University Press Terrorism: regional- global. (forthcoming) ! International research Conference: ! “The Changing status of Zionism and Israel Emergent Forms of Religious Life in in Latin American Jewry,” in Eliezer Ben Contemporary Mexico, Columbia University, Rafael, Julius Schoeps. Yotzhak Srenberg New York, (April 2015). Paper: "Changing and Olaf Glokner (Editors), Handbook of Profiles of Judaism in Mexico: Ethno-cultural Diaspora and Religious Revival". 13 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

! International Congress Metropolis, Migrants perspective' in a panel entitled: 'Jewish key Players in the 21st Century. UNAM, Communities and Social Change: The México, (September, 2015) Discussant Significance of Jews in Politics and Social Plenary Session: Migration and Circulation of Movements.' Knowledge. A Transnational perspective ! Charles Shahar and Randal Schnoor. ! Jewish Life in the Americas: A Symposium 2015. "2011 National Household Survey: Part Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The 5 (The Jewish Family) and Part 6 University of Texas at Austin Research (Intermarriage). Plus Five Additional Regional Conference, November 2015 Opening Reports (based on above study) published for Session: Where Do We Go From Here? The the cities of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Future of Comparative and Integrative Study Ottawa and Winnipeg. Jewish Federations of of Jewish Life in the Americas. With Jonathan Canada, UIA. Sarna and Sergio DellaPergola.

Of Special Note for Judit Bokser Misses-Liwerant ! The National University Prize for Research in Social Sciences, 2015. (A highly competitive and prestigious award, The Jury highlighted the interdisciplinary convergent research effort between the Social Sciences and Studies in Contemporary Jewry.)

Keren R. McGinity, Brandeis University

! I'm delighted to announce that the Love & Tradition Institute, named for the 2004 Sklare Ira Sheskin Award Winner Egon Mayer, z"l, has recently University of Miami, Geography and Director become a 501c3 organization. of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Randal Schnoor Judaic Studies York University Book ! Schnoor, Randal F. and Alex Pomson. ! Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. Forthcoming, 2016. "Jewish Day Schools in (Editors) The American Jewish Year Book, the Lives of Families: An Ontario Case Study" 2015 (Dordrecht: Springer). in Judaïsme et éducation: enjeux et défis www.springer.com/series/11193?changeHe pédagogiques. (Eds) Sivane Hirsch, Marie ader. McAndrew et Geneviève Audet (Quebec City, Canada: Presses de l'Université Laval). Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A ! Invited panelist for 'A Symposium on Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts (New Jewish Life in the Americas.' University of York: Berman Institute, Berman Jewish Texas at Austin. Nov 1, 2015. Spoke on DataBank and The Jewish Federations of 'Studying Canadian Jewish life in comparative North America (third edition, May 2015). 14 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Publications Sergio DellaPergola ! Ira M. Sheskin and Harriet Hartman. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Denominational Variations Across Jewish Communities,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 54, Number 2 (May 2015) p. 205-211. DOI:10.1111 /jssr ! Ira M. Sheskin and Ethan Felson. "Is the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement Tainted by Anti-Semitism?," Geographical Review (April 2016). ! Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky. “Jewish Population in the United States, 2015,” in Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. (Editors) The American Jewish Year Book, 2015, Volume 115 (2015) (Dordrecht: Springer) pp.163-258. ! Ira M. Sheskin and Harriet Hartman. “The Publications Facts about Intermarriage,” Journal of Jewish Reports and monographs: Identities, Volume 8, Number 1 (2015) pp. 51- ! Bokser-Liwerant, J., DellaPergola, S., 73. Senkman, L., Goldstein Y., El educador judío latinoamericano en un mundo Presentations transnacional. 1. Informe de investigación. 2. ! Ira M. Sheskin and Harriet Hartman. Síntesis, conclusions y recomendaciones del "Community Context: Denominational Profiles informe de investigación. Jerusalem, The of American Jewish Communities," AAG, San Hebrew University, Centro Liwerant; Mexico, Francisco (2016). Universidad Hebraica; Buenos Aires, AMIA, ! Ira M Sheskin. "The Changing 2015, 287+ 104 p. Also: The Latin American Demographic Profile of Jews in Southern Jewish Educator in a Transnational World. Cities: 1950 - Present and Future," Southern 2014. Research Report submitted to the L.A. Jewish Historical Society," Nashville (2015) Pincus Fund, 2014, 244 p. (Keynote Speaker). ! S. DellaPergola, L.D. Staetsky, From Old ! Kenneth D. Wald, Ira M. Sheskin, and A. and New Directions: Perceptions and Diana Forster "Holocaust Consciousness and Experiences of Antisemitism among Jews in Israel Attachment among American Jews," Italy. London, JPR, 2015, 56 p. Leffel Seminar on the Impact of Israel on American Jewry, sponsored by The Lisa and Articles in journals and collective books Michael Leffel Foundation, Westchester, NY ! My Narratives: Discipline, Profession, (2015). Ideology and Policy, in: Debra Kaufmann !Ira M Sheskin. "Explanations for Varying (guest ed.) Contemporary Jewry, 34, 2, 2014, Levels of Anti-Semitism in American Jewish 76-91. Communities," AJS, Boston (2015). ! Measuring Jewish Populations, in B.J. Grim, T.M. Johnson, V. Skirbekk and G. A. In Progress Zurlo (eds.) Yearbook of International ! I am currently working on community Religious Demography 2014. Dordrecht, studies in Broward, Houston, and Springfield, Springer, 2014, 97-110. MA. 15 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

! If they were not rescued from Egypt. The Conference papers and public Jewish community in Egypt in the light of presentations: demography. Et-mol, 237, 2014, 26-29 ! New Joiners: Disciplinary, Normative and (Hebrew). Institutional Aspects. Jerusalem, Van Leer ! End of Jewish/Non-Jewish Dichotomy? Institute, International Workshop Converts, Evidence from the 2013 Pew Survey, in A. Returnees, and Adherents: New Ways of Dashefsky and I. Sheskin (eds.) American Joining the Jewish People, 2014. Jewish Year Book, 114. Dordrecht, Springer, ! Demography of the Jewish Family: 2014, 33-39. Continuities and Discontinuities. Amsterdam, ! World Jewish Population 2014, in A. Menasseh Ben Israel Committee for the Dashefsky and I. Sheskin (eds.) American History and Culture of the Jews in the Jewish Year Book, 114. Dordrecht, Springer, Netherlands, Symposium on The Jewish 2014, 301-393. Family, 2014. ! Chi sono gli Italkím? La via italiana al ! Vittorio Dan Segre. Jerusalem, Van Leer Sionismo e a Israele, in S. Della Pergola, C. Institute, 2014. Nizza, A.M. Piattelli (eds.) L'Italia in Israele: ! Yad Vashem Enterprise on the Righteous of Il contributo degli ebrei italiani alla nascita e the Nations. London, Whitehall, Holocaust allo sviluppo dello Stato d'Israele. La Memorial Day Commemoration Ceremony, Rassegna Mensile d'Israel, 80, 2-3, 2014, 2015. 31-54. ! Observations on demography in Israel and ! S. DellaPergola and I.M. Sheskin, Global Palestine: Research and narrative. Kineret, Dispersion of Jews: Determinants and Israel Sociological Society Annual Consequences, in S.B. Brunn (ed.) The Conference, 2015. Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, ! Between Paris and Buenos Aires: Identities, Practices and Politics. Dordrecht, Judeophoby, Non-sanctioning and Terrorism: Springer, 2015, Chap. 70, 1311-1343. Transnational Aspects. Jerusalem, The ! Jewish Diaspora, in International Hebrew University, Second LAJSA Regional Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Conference, 2015. Sciences. Kidlington, Elsevier, 2015, 801-810. ! World Jewish Population: Trends and ! Que deviendra le peuple juif au XXIe Prospects. Sydney, Sydney Jewish Museum, siècle? Le point de vue de la démographie. 2015. Quel avenir pour la pensée juive de langue ! Israel and Diaspora: Demography and framçaise? Pardès, 56,2015, 243-266. Jewish Identification. Sydney, The University ! La demografía de Israel y de Palestina: of Sydney, Department of Hebrew, Biblical presente y futuro. Revista Mexicana de and Jewish Studies, 2015. Ciencias Politicas y Sociales, 60 (224), 2015, ! Israel and the Palestinian conflict: 221-250. Demographic Trends and Implications. ! On Behalf of the Epistemic Community: Melbourne, Monash University, Australian Contexts and Standards of American Center for Jewish Civilization, 2015. Jewishness. Contemporary Jewry, 35, 2, ! Demographic and cultural context of 2015, 129-135. modernization in Israel. Conference Social ! Antisemitism in Italy. International Journal of and Cultural Transformations, Natural Global Diaspora Studies, 1, 1, 2015, 41-61. Resources and Biotechnologies: Major ! Ebrei di tutto il mondo contatevi. Israele e il Research Trends and Comparisons in the libro, Limes,10, 2015. Israeli and European Research Systems. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, and European University Rome, 2015. 16 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

! La via italiana al sionismo e a Israele: Chi Arnold Dashefsky sono gli Italkim? Milano, EXPO, Israel University of Connecticut Pavillon, 2015. ! Jewish Demography in the European Union Publications - Facts, Myths and Trends. Prague, Charles ! Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin (eds.). University. International Conference Being American Jewish Year Book 2015. Volume Jewish in Central Europe Today, 2015. 115. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer 2016. ! The Future of Comparative and Integrative ! Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky. Study of Jewish Life in the Americas. Austin, "Jewish Population in the United States, TX, The University of Texas, Schusterman 2015." American Jewish Year Book 2015. Center for Jewish Studies, Symposium Jewish Volume 115. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Life in the Americas, 2015. Springer 2016. pp.163-258. ! Marriages of Jews with non-Jews: world overview and first data on frequency in Israel. Presentation/Panel Chair/Organizer Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, Seminar ! American Sociological Association Annual Intermarriage: the mounting wave, 2015. Meeting, Chicago, roundtable paper, Aug. 2015: Arnold Dashefsky, "The Rise of Global Op-ed Anti-Semitism: Will it Spread to the US?" ! Yes minority. Mida', 01.07.2015 (in ! Association for the Sociology of Religion Hebrew). Annual Meeting, Chicago, Aug. 2015: ! Trouble For Israel Over Iran Agreement, "Understanding Change in Jewish-Christian And Beyond. Jewish Week, 08.25.2015. Intermarriage: A Comparative Perspective." ! The Jewish people in 2050: 2 very different Organized and chaired session for the scenarios. Ynet, 09.22.2015. Association for the Social Scientific Study of ! Monthly column in Pagine Ebraiche, Jewry and the Berman Jewish DataBank. published by Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche ! Association for Jewish Studies Annual Italiane-UCEI, Rome. Meeting, Boston, Dec. 2015: Chair of session ! Weekly blog in Moked-Unione Informa, "Anti-Semitism and the United States in issued by Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Global Perspective." Organized by the Italiane-UCEI, Rome. Berman Jewish DataBank.

Other activities Samuel Heilman ! Member of Yad Vashem Committee on the CUNY Righteous of the Nations. ! Member of advisory committee, Pew survey ! I served a Fulbright senior specialist in of Jewish Americans, 2013. Poland for six weeks, based at the University ! Member of advisory committee, Pew survey of Wroclaw and lecturing as well at of Israelis, 2014. Jagellonian University in Krakow and Warsaw ! Chief Editor, Hagira - Israel Journal of University during the spring term 2015. I gave Migration. Issued on behalf of Ruppin a series of lectures in South Africa during the Academic College and the Israeli Sociological summer in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Society. Durban. I completed work on a co-authored book, A New History of Hasidism, to be published in 2016. I published a number of op-ed pieces in Haaretz, most recently this month. „ 17 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 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) 2014 Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis, Sociology) 2015 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (NYU, Performance Studies) „

The ASSJ would like to thank Steven M. Cohen, Steven Gold, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sam Klausner, and Shelly Tenenbaum for their generous donations to Sklare Award. 18 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 Sklare Award Winner - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Riv-Ellen Prell and Steven M. Cohen B arbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor, and Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is also affiliated with the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. In addition, she has been Program Director, Core Exhibition, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland.

Trained as a folklorist BKG (as those far and wide call her) is a pioneer not only of the folklore of the Jewish people, with a particular interest in Eastern European Jewry, but vastly expanded the field include emerging areas of performance and food studies, among many others. In addition, she is a distinguished scholar in the area of museum studies, analyzing them and creating their collections. Simply put, Professor Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is one of the central figures in these fields over the last nearly half century. She has helped to fundamentally change the study of Jewish culture by providing models for the study of music, material culture, the digital world, and museums, among many other areas.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a folklorist of Jewish cultures, and has thus made major contributions to the social scientific study of Jewry. Most importantly, by changing what the field of Jewish folklore is and does, she has transformed the study of European, Yiddish, and American Jewish cultures and broadened cultural approaches to the social scientific study of Jewry.

She established her reputation in her work as a scholar of Ashkenaz. She began with linguistics and Yiddish. Her 1977 coauthored book with Lucjan Dobroszycki, Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust, was widely praised for bringing back to life a complex understanding of Polish Jewry alongside a remarkable text and photographs. She was instrumental in orienting scholarship to pre- Holocaust studies of Polish Jewry. As a Jewish folklorist she has studied subjects in the field-such as linguistics, folk songs, ritual objects, material culture and foodways. However, she has expanded the scope of what Jewish folklore might engage, including tourist productions, museum displays, and the use of new media. Her studies of Jewish performance extend to folk singing and klezmer music, Hasidic Purim plays, and tourist practices in Israel. Her work on Jewish visual and material culture 19 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 includes studies in each and every one of these areas she has made major theoretical contributions.

For example, her reflection on two ethnographic studies of Israel youth trips by Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman (The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity. Jerusalem: Melton Center, 2002) constitute one of the most important intellectual framings of tourism and "pilgrimage." This work is a touchstone for all subsequent studies of identity tourism, which explore issues of "authenticity" and "re-socialization." She took up similar themes in her outstanding work on the klezmer revival in the United States and Europe, exploring the meaning of innovation and tradition in musical forms. Her profound exploration of how cultures change, and how cultural formulations are applied, reformulated, and reshaped have influenced three generations of scholars.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has also explored the intellectual history of Jewish folklore and ethnography in several essays, thereby deeply enriching our understanding of the social scientific study of Jewry. Her research on Max Weinreich's social science scholarship at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in interwar Vilna has been an essential contribution to understanding the key roots of the field. Her essays on the studies that Weinreich undertook on youth in interwar Poland reveal an historical sociology of unparalleled importance. Her introduction to the 1995 reissue of Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog's Life Is with People (1952), a landmark work of "anthropology at a distance" on Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, constitutes the definitive study of one of the most important projects undertaken about Jews during this period.

Finally, her work has closely examined the question of how cultural artifacts are exhibited to understand the vast networks of academic and cultural institutions that provide the context for that process. It is in this arena that she raises the questions of Jewish self-representation that appear in her discussions of klezmer, for example. In her landmark book, Destination Cultures: Tourism, Museum and Heritage, she examines cultural locations as diverse historical and contemporary worlds' fairs and museums where Jews have displayed themselves and been displayed. She demonstrates the complexity of Jewish self-representation in culture, and provides the foundation, along with her other work, for an entirely new approach to the study of Jewish folklore and culture. She has moved this field from collecting and describing to theorizing the very nature of culture as it is embedded in the complexity of historical and social change.

Emblematic of her creativity and innovations as a scholar is her book written with her late father Mayer Kirshenblatt. They Called me Mayer July: 20 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, which includes his paintings and depicts his memories of life before the War. It was accompanied by an exhibition and a documentary film, "Paint What You Remember."

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is one of the most significant public scholars in the broader field of Jewish studies, as well as in the field of Jewish folklore and culture. Her most significant recent role has been to design the core exhibition of the Museum of Polish Jewry that opened in the fall of 2014. This enormous undertaking has required her to integrate historical, aesthetic, and social scientific understanding of Polish Jewry and translate it into objects as well as language for the museum's exhibitions. The importance of this work has been recognized throughout Israel, Europe, and North America...... She continues to consult with the following Jewish museums: Tel Aviv's Beth Hatefutsoth, Jewish Museum Berlin, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yeshiva University museum, Jewish Museum, National Museum of American Jewish History, Jewish Museum Vienna, among many others. Her role in translating Jewish scholarship to museums and other cultural venues is a singular contribution for the leading folklorist of Jewish life.

Her work as a scholar and public intellectual of Jewish life has been recognized by a Lifetime Achievement Award of the Foundation for Jewish Culture in 2008. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, book awards, and other forms of recognition.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has helped instruct, advise, and inspire several generations of scholars in North America, Europe, and Israel, involved in Jewish Studies working across the range of social sciences, including not only folkloristics but also anthropology, linguistics, ethnomusicology, and sociology. Her work has been a model of how to think across the boundaries of countries, cultures, and disciplines, including crossing the humanities and social sciences, and to do so collaboratively, incisively, and imaginatively.

Barbara will deliver her paper during the Association for Jewish Studies meeting - Sunday, Dec 3 4:30- 6:30 PM (Sheraton , Back Bay B). The ASSJ Awards Reception will be at 6 PM in Independence East. Please join us! „ 21 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 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 2015 Barry Shrage, CJP, Greater Boston’s Jewish Federation „

Bill Berman 22 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 Berman Award Winner - Barry Shrage Len Saxe, Brandeis University T he 2015 Mandell L. Berman Service Award is being given this year to Barry Shrage, President of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, the oldest Jewish federation. In an era in search of leaders who can be both visionary and practical, inspiring yet tachlitic, and who have the ability to reach across diverse and divided communities, Barry has been exemplary. In an age of cynicism, where we are overfed a diet of negative information, not just about the Jewish community but about our society's ability to confront contemporary challenges, Barry is an optimist. "Never better," he says, when you encounter him. In part, it's never been better because he is such an extraordinary force for bringing meaning and love to the Jewish community.

It is not by accident that the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry is honoring Barry and doing so with an award named for the distinguished lay leader, Mandell ("Bill") Berman. Bill Berman, throughout his philanthropic career, has dedicated his resources to ensuring that the Jewish community has available the best social scientific evidence for planning Jewish communal life. Barry, his love of text and tradition notwithstanding, has been a professional partner with all of us who study American Jewry. He appreciates that to ensure a vibrant Jewish future, we need to understand the Jewish people and assess how communal institutions add meaning and value to their lives.

The Boston federation, along with being the first federated community, also has the longest history of conducting scientifically-based community studies. Barry has spearheaded the last three of these studies and treats them as the essential materials for thinking about his community and how CJP can contribute to its vibrancy. By training, Barry is a social worker - and, indeed, as he practices communal leadership, his relations with people come first. But, by dint of his work, he's an honorary social scientist - and much of his work is dedicated to understanding Jewish identity, Jewish education and the role that our synagogues and other Jewish institutions play in the lives of contemporary Jews.

Barry will be receiving his award at a ceremony to be held during the Association for Jewish Studies meeting - Monday night at 6:30 PM (Sheraton, Independent East). The event will feature a brief video with tributes to Barry and a cocktails/hors d'oeuvres reception. Please join us! „ 23 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 The ASSJ T he Association for the Social Scientific Board members Study of Jewry is a cross-disciplinary Barry Chiswick, George Washington organization whose research concerns the University Jewish people throughout the world. Helen Kim. Whitman College The ASSJ encourages and facilitates Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, JFNA contact among researchers, supports the Randal Schnoor, York University dissemination of research, and assists in the Jennifer Thompson, California State cultivation of younger scholars. University, Northridge The organization's journal, Contemporary Jewry, is issued three times per year. All Contemporary Jewry editor social science disciplines are represented, Harriet Hartman, Rowan University including anthropology, demography, economics, geography, history, Jewish Newsletter editor education, political science, social psychology, Ira Sheskin, University of Miami social work, and sociology. Our members are primarily academics, but Immediate Past President also policy analysts, communal professionals Harriet Hartman, Rowan University and activists, and are engaged in a wide range of scholarly activity, applied research, Israeli representative and the links between them. www.assj.org „ Lilach Lev-Ari, Oranim Academic College

ASSJ Executive Board European representative President Jonathan Boyd, Institute for Jewish Policy Steven M. Cohen, HUC-JIR Research

Vice-president Latin American representative Sergio DellaPergola, The Hebrew University Judit Liwerant, National Autonomous of Jerusalem University of Mexico

Treasurer Australia-New Zealand Leonard Saxe, Brandeis representative David Graham, University of Sydney, Secretary Australia Matthew Boxer, Brandeis Student representative Vacant

We thank Shawn Landres, Riv-Ellen Prell, Moshe Kornfeld, and Bruce Phillips from Hebrew Union College for their service on the Board. „ 24 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 ASSJ Book Series T he first book of the series is out (see next page). The first four books will be published by the University of Nebraska; all others by Springer. Send all proposals to Rela Geffen, Series editor ([email protected]) (215) 568-0967.

The editorial board includes: Regine Azria, L'Ecole des Haute Etudes en Science Sociales, France Steven M. Cohen, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University Harriet Hartman, Rowan University Samuel Heilman, Queens College Debra Kaufman, Northeastern University Judith Bokser Liwerant, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University Ira Sheskin, University of Miami Diane Wolf, University of California at Davis „

This series focuses on social scientific studies of Jewry, taking a broad perspective on “social science,” to include anthropology, communications, demography, economics, education, ethnography, geography, history, politics, population, social psychology, and sociology, as well as interdisciplinary studies among these fields or between these fields and a related field. The series is especially interested in publishing works that contribute to the understanding of Jews in society and/or bridge diversities within Jewry or between Jewry and non-Jewry.

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In Print

When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged questions: Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv’s Falafel Nation moves beyond the simply territorial to divulge the role food plays in the Jewish nation. She ponders the power struggles, moral dilemmas, and religious and ideological affiliations of the different ethnic groups that make up the “Jewish State” and how they relate to the gastronomy of the region. How do we interpret the recent upsurge in the Israeli culinary scene—the transition from ideological asceticism to the current deluge of fine restaurants, gourmet stores, and related publications and media?

Focusing on the period between the 1905 immigration wave and the Six-Day War in 1967, Raviv explores foodways from the field, factory, market, and kitchen to the table. She incorporates the role of women, ethnic groups, and different generations into the story of Zionism and offers new assertions from a secular-foodie perspective on the relationship between Jewish religion and Jewish nationalism. A study of the changes in food practices and in attitudes toward food and cooking, Falafel Nation explains how the change in the relationship between Israelis and their food mirrors the search for a definition of modern Jewish nationalism. Home Page

Yael Raviv is the director of the Umami food and art festival in New York City. She has a PhD in performance studies from New York University and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at NYU. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance, Gastronomica, and elsewhere.

Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod’s groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israel’s underpopulated south complicated the dominant social science discourse and government policy of the day by focusing on the ironies inherent in the project of Israeli nation building and on the process of migration prompted by social change.

Drawing from Weingrod’s perspective, this collection considers the gaps, ruptures, and juxtapositions in Israeli society and the cultural categories undergirding and subverting these divisions. Organized into four parts, the volume examines our understanding of Israel as a place of difference, the disruptions and integrations of diaspora, the various permutations of Judaism, and the role of symbol in the national landscape and in Middle Eastern studies considered from a comparative perspective. These essays illuminate the key issues pervading, motivating, and frustrating Israel’s complex ethnoscape. Home Page

Fran Markowitz is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

Stephen Sharot is a professor emeritus of sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Moshe Shokeid is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Alex Weingrod is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 26 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Upcoming Volumes

In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories and a growing body of statistics provide data, they tell us little about the inner workings of day-to-day life for such couples and their children.

JewAsian is a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are Jewish American and Asian American. Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt’s book explores the larger social dimensions of intermarriages to explain how these particular unions reflect not only the identity of married individuals but also the communities to which they belong. Using in-depth interviews with couples and the children of Jewish American and Asian American marriages, Kim and Leavitt’s research sheds much-needed light on the everyday lives of these partnerships and how their children negotiate their own identities in the twenty-first century.

Helen Kiyong Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Whitman College. Her work has been published in the Journal of Jewish Identities and Forward and has been anthologized in several publications. Noah Samuel Leavitt is an associate dean of students at Whitman College and has served as the advocacy director for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications including Contemporary Jewry, Slate, the International Herald Tribune, and Forward. Home Page

Despite consensus about the importance of multigenerational analysis for studying the long-term impact of immigration, most studies in Israel have focused on the integration of first-generation migrants, neglecting key changes (in economic, social, linguistic, and identity outcomes) that occur intergenerationally. Rebeca Raijman tackles this important but untold story with respect to Jewish South African immigration in Israel. By collecting data from three generational cohorts, Raijman analyzes assimilation from a comparative multigenerational perspective. She also combines both quantitative and qualitative evidence with in-depth interviews and participant observation, thereby providing a rich and more complete picture of the complex process of migrant assimilation.

While the migrant subpopulation of South Africa has not received the attention that immigrant populations from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia have, as English-speaking migrants they are a powerful and significant group. Given the status of English as an international language, this study has important implications for understanding the expected assimilation trajectories of Anglophone immigrants in Israel as well as in other non-English-speaking societies. South African Jews in Israel not only contributes empirical material concerning immigrants in Israeli society but also articulates a theoretical understanding of the social mechanisms underlying the integration of various generations of immigrants into a variety of societal domains. Home Page

Rebeca Raijman is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is the coauthor of a book published in Israel about the political economy of labor migration in Israel.„ 27 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 Contemporary Jewry C ontemporary Jewry, the journal of the ASSJ since 1975, 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. 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 35, Issue 3 (October 2015). ! Editor’s Introduction, Harriet Hartman ! Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States, Barry R. Chiswick, Nicholas Larsen ! Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran: The Effects of Identity, Threat, and Political Trust, Rusi Jaspal ! Parochial or Transnational Endeavor? The Attitude to Israel of Adolescents in Australian Jewish Day Schools, Zehavit Gross, Suzanne D. Rutland ! Karaite Stories: Narrating Subjectivity in a Marginal Moshava, Inbal Ester Cicurel ! Deep Blue: Notes on the Jewish Snail Fight, Gadi Sagiv

Report ! Research Updates, Helen Kim

Book Reviews ! Fran Markowitz, Stephen Sharot, and Moshe Shokeid (eds): Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel, reviewed by Myron J. Aronoff ! Calvin Goldscheider: Israeli Society in the 21st Century: Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict, reviewed by Bruce A. Phillips ! Adam Ferziger: Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism, reviewed by Moshe Krakowski ! Roberta Rosenthal Kwall: The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition, reviewed by Barry A. Kosmin

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Editorial Board: Samuel Heilman, Queens College 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 Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut, Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew University Storrs Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University Sergio DellaPergola, Hebrew University Theodore Sasson, Middlebury College Adam Ferziger, Bar-Ilan University Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University Menachem Friedman, Bar-Ilan University William Shaffir, McMaster University Rela Mintz Geffen, Gratz College Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan Ira Sheskin, University of Miami Allen Avi Glicksman, Philadelphia Chaim I. Waxman, Professor Emeritus Corporation for Aging from Rutgers University Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University Yaacov Yadgar, Bar-Ilan University „ Deborah Grant, Brandeis University 29 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2 Fall 2015 Publications from ASSJ Members of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies/Steinhardt Social Research Institute, Brandeis University

Authors and ASSJ members cited below:

Leonard Saxe, dir. CMJS/SSRI, Klutznick Shahar Hecht, senior research associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies Annette Koren, research scientist Janet Krasner Aronson, associate Theodore Sasson, senior research scientist research scientist CMJS/SSRI, Prof. Jewish Studies Matthew Boxer, research scientist Middlebury College Fern Chertok, research scientist Michelle Shain, research associate Shira Fishman, research scientist Graham Wright, research associate

CMJS Publications Fall 2015 (Publications Part 2)

Books ! Boxer, M. (Under contract). The Effects of Jewish Community Size on Jewish Identity: Judaism as a Contact Sport. New York: Springer.

Book Chapters and Dissertations ! Koren, A., Saxe, L., & Fleisch, E. (In press). Jewish Life on Campus: From Backwater to Battleground. In A. Dashefsky, I. Sheskin (Eds.), American Jewish Yearbook 2015. Dordrecht: Springer.

Institute Reports ! Koren, A., & Fishman, S. (2015). Israel Studies Directory: 2013-14 update. Waltham, MA: Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University. ! Koren, A., & Fishman, S. (2015). The Summer Institute for Israel Studies: 2015. Waltham, MA: Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University. ! Koren, A., Fishman, S., Krasner Aronson, J., & Saxe, L. (2015). The Israel Literacy Measurement Project: 2015 Report. Waltham, MA: Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University. ! Sasson, T., Saxe, L., Chertok, F., Shain, M., Hecht, S., & Wright, G. (2015). Millennial children of intermarriage: Touchstones and trajectories. Waltham, MA: Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University.

Commentaries ! Saxe, L., Chertok, F., & Sasson, T. (2015, November 10). How College Can Put the Jewish in Children of Intermarriage. The Forward. ! Koren, A. (2015, November 3). What do college students really know about Israel? ejewishphilanthopy. „ 30 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

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Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt Non-white Jews Huffington Post

Jonathan Sarna Jewish Studies Struggling on Several Fronts The Forward

Keren R. McGinity and Shawn Landres Big Tent Judaism’s Study About Conservative Rabbis Deserves More Credit on www.ejeiwshphilanthropy.com

Alan Cooperman Honing In On American Orthodox Jews The Jewish Press

Keren McGinity "Most millenials with interfaith parents identify as Jews, Brandeis study finds," The Jewish Advocate (Nov. 26, 2015) "From Brit Bat to Bat Mitzvah: How Love & Tradition Work Together," Ritual Well (Nov. 25, 2015) "It All Depends on the Man," Jewish Daily Forward (Nov. 14, 2015) "Help Make Services Less Boring," Jewish Daily Forward (Oct. 17, 2015) "Find Other Way to Explore Colombian Heritage," Jewish Daily Forward (Sept. 19, 2015) "Time for Him to Make His Own Choices," Jewish Daily Forward (Aug. 1, 2015) "Intermarriage is an Opportunity, Not a Threat," Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (July 23, 2015) "Why Intermarried Rabbis Will Strengthen the Jewish Future," Jewish Daily Forward (Oct. 8, 2015)

Morton Weinfeld In the days before the recent Canadian federal election I was interviewed four times on national Canadian media. The subject was the Niqabi debate: should a Canadian immigrant Muslim woman who wore the niqab ,which covers the face except the eyes, be permitted to take the public oath of citizenship with her face so covered? ( Before the public oath her full facial identity is checked in private....). My answer was yes..... though I suspect most Republican presidential candidates, and perhaps some Democrats and independents, might well disagree....

Sarah Bunin Benor "Delicious Linguistics: Review of Dan Jurafsky's The Language of Food." Jewish Journal 2/5/15.

Sergio DellaPergola The Jewish People in 2050: 2 very different scenarios ynet 32 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Steven M. Cohen

Steven M. Cohen and Ezra Kopelowitz. The Jewish Impact of The Anne Samson Jerusalem Journey (TJJ): Increasing Jewish Engagement among Conservative, Reform & Non-Denominational Youth Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, 2015 Steven M. Cohen and Michelle Terret. Exploring Synagogue Vitality. London, UK: The Jewish Leadership Council. 2015 Jack Wertheimer, Steven Bayme and Steven M. Cohen, After Pew: Thinking about American Jewish cohesion, assimilation and division Ira M. Sheskin and Steven M. Cohen , Jewish Community Studies Remain Vital for Planning and Policy-making on www.ejewishphilanthropy.com. November 27, 2015 Steven M. Cohen, James Ponet, and Keren R. McGinity, My Son Won’t Even Break the Glass at his Wedding Forward Steven M. Cohen and Joy Levitt. If You Marry a Jew, You're One of Us , JTA Mijal Bitton and Steven M. Cohen. More is Better When it Comes to Jewish Numbers, The Forward, May 2015. Steven M. Cohen and Todd Gitlin. On the Iran Deal, American Jewish 'Leaders' Don't Speak for Most Jews, The Washington Post, August 14, 2015. David Bryfman and Steven M. Cohen. To Fight BD, Focus on Teens, JTA, July 13, 2015. Rona Sheramy, Steven M. Cohen, and Jonathan Sarna. Investing in the Jewish Studies Ph.D. Talent Pool." Jewish Philanthropy. December 6, 2015.

Two Jewish Anxieties. AJS Perspectives. Spring 2015. New Poll: U.S. Jews Support Iran Deal, Despite Misgivings, Jewish Journal, July 23, 2015. American Jews and Israel: Still Attached But More Divided, The Conversation, Published as, "The American Jewish Community is Fracturing. What's Causing It?, New Republic, March 16, 2015 Jews Still Leaning Democratic, Jewish Journal, August 20, 2105 The Jewish Future: A Symposium. Commentary. November 2015. Op-Ed: For Reform Jews, Some Good News on Engagement, JTA, November 5, 2015 Can Intermarriage Lead to an Increase in the Number of Jews in America Mosaic, November 9, 2015 Conservative Jewry’s numbers plummeting, but core engagement steady JTA, November 10, 2015 Jewish Studies professors are struggling, survey finds JTA Israel Distress Need Not Lead to Israel Detachment And Lack of Support from Left You Tube How To Stabilize the Declining Jewish Middle–Or Even Reverse It Forward Polls Showing Jewish Support for Iran Deal More Credible Forward Lessons Learned From Orthodoxy's Dramatic Growth. The New York Jewish Week. November 30, 2015. 33 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

Numerous ASSJ Members Strategic Directions for Jewish Life: A Call to Action

Ira M. Sheskin Biden Again Expresses Uncertainty About 2016 New York Times With Polls of U.S. Jews on Iran at Odds, which to Believe? JTA Dating at 62: A Cautionary Tale Forward Feds Clarify policy on reparations money inherited from Holocaust survivors Miami Herald Wasserman Schultz calls Jewish intermarriage a ‘problem,’ later says she does not oppose it Sun Sentinel Ignoring the Elephant in the Room www.e-jewishphilanthropy.com Where are the Jews of Dayton? Dayton Jewish Observer Could the nuclear deal help Republicans win Florida in 2016? Tampa Bay Times What’s behind South Florida Jewish retirement numbers? Cleveland Jewish News Republicans woo traditionally Democratic Jewish voters South Florida Sun-Sentinel Defying Stereotypes, Jewish Life in the South Is Flourishing Forward Jewish South Growing in Florida, D.C. Area Atlanta Jewish Times Young Jewish leaders to celebrate Shabbat South Florida Sun-Sentinel Ira M. Sheskin and Steven M. Cohen Jewish Community Studies Remain Vital for Planning and Policy-making on www.ejewishphilanthropy.com. November 27, 2015

TV Appearance VIEWPOINT: Syrian Crisis

Radio Appearances Iran Nuclear Deal Leaves Congress with Plenty to Discuss WIOD 610 Radio Miami Iran Nuclear Agreement Leaves Many Experts Cautiously Optimistic WIOD 610 Radio Miami President Obama Warns That Afghanistan Fragile As He Plans to Leave Troops There WIOD 610 Radio Miami „ 34 The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Vol. 7 Num. 2

News from The Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures, at the University of Sydney

The Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures, at the University of Sydney has just made two new appointments: Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, whose thesis, "Life under Siege: The Jews of Magdeburg under Nazi Rule", (University of Sydney) has been published in German, has been appointed to the position of Roth Lecturer in Jewish Civilisation, Israel and Holocaust Studies. Dr Gili Kugler, who just completed her PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has been appointed as the new lecturer in Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew, supported by the Einhorn Fund.

The Department hosted a number of visiting scholars in 2015. In May Professor Sergio DellaPergola was a Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fellow. He gave some guest lectures to our unit on Israel in the Modern Middle East as well as the joint seminar on Perceptions and Experiences of Antisemitism among Jews in Italy with the Department of Italian, 21 May.

In August, Professor Zehavit Gross of the School of Education at Bar Ilan University and honorary research associate with the department visited Sydney as part of the Pratt research project she is conducting with Professor Emerita Suzanne Rutland on Jewish Education in Australia, Asia and the Pacific Region. With Palestinian Human Rights activist, Bassam Eid, she conducted a departmental research seminar on 'Peace Education and Human Rights as a Challenge for Higher Education', 24 August. She also presented with Professor Rutland on "Antisemitism in the Schoolyard: Combating Racial Prejudice Early On" at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) on 27 August.

Suzanne Rutland's new book, with Sam Lipski, has had an Israeli/American edition published by Gefen Publishing (Jerusalem). A launch of this edition of the book was held at the Begin Centre in Jerusalem on 7 October 2015, with a prestigious group of speakers. The Australian Ambassador, Dave Sharma, gave the opening address. He was followed by Elyakim Rubenstein, Judge of the Supreme Court; Natan Sharansky, well known Russian activist and later Israeli leader; Professor Rutland and Isi Leibler, who played a leading role in the Australian Campaign for Soviet Jewry, working closely with both Bob Hawke and Malcolm Fraser. Editor of the Jerusalem Post, Steve Linde, wrote a review of the book published on 15 October, stressing that "Let My People Go is a fascinating account of how the small Jewish community of Australia, under the inspirational leadership of Isi Leibler, played an extraordinary part in the exodus of Soviet Jewry a quarter of a century ago."

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Dr Myer Samra, with the Australian Association for Jewish Studies, coordinated three sessions dealing with the history of the Jews in Asia, entitled "Asian Jewish Encounters" as part of this international conference held in Adelaide in July. Dr Samra presented on "The Experience of Benei Menashe Settlers in Israel" and Professor Emerita Suzanne Rutland dealt with the role played by Australian Jewish Leibler in India's full diplomatic recognition of Israel in 1992 and, with Professor Zehavit Gross, examining the education of Jewish children in Beijing today, exploring how the individualized learning style of the Montessori system facilitates the children's learning, particularly of their heritage-language, Hebrew. Other international presenters covering India, the Far East and Baghdadi Jews included Professors Joan Roland, Jonathan Goldstein, Yakov ZInberg, Spencer Kazimir, and Dr Maisie Meyer, who unfortunately had to leave early due to family ill health.

Publications: Gross, Zehavit Rutland, and Suzanne D. 'Creating a Safe Place: SRE Teaching as an Act of Security and Identity Formation in Government Schools in Australia', British Journal of Religious Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2015.1025699,2015.

Alba, Avril, The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). „ CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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“The space where international health volunteering and good intentions collide can get very messy. Hoping to Help cleans up the mess. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in volunteering abroad in any capacity, health service or otherwise.”—Brandon Blache-Cohen, Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning

“Hoping to Help makes a clear and new contribution. The issues Judith N. Lasker examines are increasingly pressing for universities across the United States, as the trend toward internationalization is accompanied by unexpected perverse incentives and adverse impacts such as those Lasker raises. This high-quality book will appeal beyond the global health community to study abroad, service learning, and civic engagement programs, as well as church organizations and civic groups.”—Eric Hartman, Kansas State University

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Judith N. Lasker is N.E.H. Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University. She is coauthor of When Pregnancy Fails, In Search of Parenthood, and Equal Time, Equal Value.

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READER’S GUIDE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES CONFERENCE BOSTON | 2015

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Honoring this Year’s Marshall Sklare Memorial Award Winner

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, professor at New York University, is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional. She was born in Canada during the Second World War to Jewish immigrants from Poland. Professor of Performance Studies at New York University since 1981 (and distinguished University Professor since 2002), she is best known for her interdisciplinary contributions to Jewish studies and to the theory and history of museums, tourism, and heritage. She is currently Program Director of the Core Exhibition for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Her Award Lecture is titled “The Ethnographer in the Museum: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.” As the 2015 recipient of the Marshall Sklare award, she will reflect on her experience at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in light of the concerns that animated Sklare's work. While Poland is no America and Warsaw is no Lakeville, there is hardly an aspect of Marshall Sklare’s work that does not bear on the history of Polish Jews and on Jewish life in Poland today – whether group survival, religion and ethnicity, acculturation, intermarriage, conversion, Israel, living with one’s neighbors, or forms and expression of Jewish identification.

How might Marshall Sklare, grandson of Litvaks from Kovno, approach the history of Polish Jews, ancestors of most Jews living in America today? How might he approach the study of the Jewish community in Poland today? What can the social sciences offer to historians of Polish Jews and to the making of a museum that will be an agent of transformation that can move an entire society forward? She will explore these questions from the vantage point of an ethnographer in the museum responsible for leading the development of a multimedia narrative exhibition dedicated to the 1000 year history of Polish Jews at the heart of POLIN Museum in Warsaw.

Sunday, December 13 4:30-6:00pm Sheraton Backbay B With Responses from Jeffrey Shandler & Samuel Kassow Chaired by Riv-Ellen Prell

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Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Spring 2010: 5-8. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=5601

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. They Called Me Mayer July. AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Spring 2007: 12-14. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2651

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Participatory Journalism. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media). June 2005: 1-2. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=6495

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Shandler, Jeffrey. Jews/Media/Religion: Mapping a Field, Building a Resource. AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Spring 2005: 22-24. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2632

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Learning From Ethnography: Reflections on the nature and efficacy of youth tours to Israel. Studio Kavgraph. 2002: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2049

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. The Folk Culture of Jewish Immigrant Communities: Research Paradigms and Directions. The Jews of North America. Wayne State University Press. 1987: 79-94. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4411

Zenner, Walter P. Hyman, Paula E. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Lipstadt, Deborah E. Moore, Deborah Dash. Neusner, Jacob. Loeb, Laurence D. Roskies, David G. Levine, Baruch A. Endelman, Todd M. Sabar, Yona. Cohen, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Mark R. Slobin, Mark. Haboucha, Reginetta. Armistead, Samuel G. Shai, Donna. Goitein, S.D.. Ben- Amos, Dan. Brown, Ronald. Levine, Lee. Meeks, Wayne. Lasker, Daniel J. Slotnick, Susan A. Jospe, Raphael. Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter-June 1977. AJS Newsletter. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). June 1977: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=11879

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SUNDAY NEW SOCIAL SCIENCE QUESTIONS ABOUT B E Y O N D P A R E N T I N G A N D I N T O JEWISH LIFE 10:30-12:00 Sheraton RETIREMENT: MULTIFACETED Berkeley A/B ENGAGEMENT IN JEWISH LIFE DURING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF LIFE 10-11:30 Sheraton PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS OF TEACHING Commonwealth ISRAEL AND PALESTINE ON AMERICAN COLLEGE CAMPUSES 1:15-2:45 Sheraton DOES FAMILY MATTER? THE ROLE OF Constitution A PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS IN JEWISH EDUCATION 10-11:30 Sheraton INTERROGATING IDENTITY: NEW Dalton A/B APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF JEWISH ADULTS 1:15-2:45 Sheraton Hampton A/B T H E N U M B E R S C O N T R O V E R S Y A N D AMERICAN JEWRY: DISCERNING THE THE VIEW ACROSS THE OCEAN: TRENDS AND THEIR MEANING 11:45-1:15 CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH OF AMERICAN Sheraton Constitution B JEWRY IN ISRAEL AND OF ISRAEL BY AMERICAN JEWS 3:00-4:00 Sheraton BEYOND FREEDOM SUMMER: Backbay C COMPLICATING NARRATIVES OF AMERICAN JEWISH INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL MODERN JEWISH PHILANTHROPY AND THE RIGHTS MOVEMENT AT MIDCENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY OF JEWISH 11:45-1:15 Sheraton Fairfax B LIFE 3:00-4:30 Sheraton Hampton A/B

THE PITCH OF JEWISH VOICES IN AMERICA PHILOSEMITISM AND ANTISEMITISM IN 2:30-4:00 Sheraton Backbay B CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE 3:00-4:30 Sheraton Dalton A/B MIGRATION, RELIEF, AND AID IN THE POSTWAR WORLD: DEFINING A NEW "ARAB" JEWS IN NORTH AMERICA 5:00-6:30 TRANSNATIONAL JOINT DISTRIBUTION Sheraton Clarendon A/B COMMITTEE MISSION 2:30-4:00 Sheraton Berkeley A/B TRANSNATIONAL JEWISH GIVING TO ZION: COMMUNITY BUILDING, IDENTITY, AND INTERMARRIAGE AND JEWISH AMERICAN AUTHORITY 5:00-6:30 Sheraton Jefferson CULTURE 2:30-4:00 Sheraton Clarendon A/B TUESDAY ORTHODOXY, GENDER, AND THE BODY TEACHING PALESTINE IN THE CONTEXT OF 8:30-10:00 Constitution B JEWISH STUDIES 4:30-6:00 Sheraton Commonwealth ANTISEMITISM AND THE UNITED STATES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 8:30-10:00 Sheraton SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE NONES: Hampton A/B UNDERSTANDING SECULAR AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY RELIGION, ZIONISM, AND PEDAGOGY IN 4:30-6:00 Sheraton Dalton A/B ISRAEL AND NORTH AMERICA 12:00-1:30 Sheraton Backbay B MONDAY AMERICAN JEWS AND THE LONG 1960s INVENTIONS OF MODERN JEWISH IDENTITY 8:30-10:00 Sheraton Clarendon A/B IN THE AMERICAS 12:00-1:30 Sheraton Backbay C CROSSING RELIGIOUS AND GEOGRAPHIC BORDERS 8:30-10:00 Sheraton Dalton A/B J E W I S H B O U N D A R I E S A N D B O R D E R CROSSINGS IN PROTESTANT AMERICA JEWISH COMMUNAL SURVEYS IN POSTWAR 12:00-1:30 Sheraton Beacon A AMERICA 8:30-10:00 Sheraton Gardner A

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BEYOND PARENTING AND INTO RETIREMENT: MULTIFACETED ENGAGEMENT IN JEWISH LIFE DURING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF LIFE Sunday 10-11:30 Sheraton Commonwealth Chair: Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University) The Emerging Jewish Boomer Landscape Stuart Himmelfarb (B3/The Jewish Boomer Platform) The Importance of Israel to American Jewish Adults Janet Krasner Aronson (Brandeis University) Building Community, Seeking Meaning, Finding Focus: Patterns and Trends in Adult Jewish Learning during Midlife and Beyond Lisa D. Grant (HUC–JIR)

Baby Boomers, Public Service and Minority Communities Sponsor(s): Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner (BJPA), Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA), NYU Wagner Principal Investigator(s): David M. Elcott

Elcott, David. Himmelfarb, Stuart. As the Generational Winds Blow. eJewish Philanthropy. 23 May 2011: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=11696

Grant, Lisa D. Schuster, Diane Tickton. What We Know About Adult Jewish Education. What We NOW Know About Jewish Education. A.R.E. Press. January 2008: 1-27. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4816

Grant, Lisa D. Finding Her Right Place in the Synagogue: The Rite of Adult Bat Mitzvah. Wayne State University Press. 2007: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3101

Nussbaum, Rachel. GenXers and Boomers: Humility and Tzimtzum. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Josh Rolnick, The Sh'ma Institute. January 2011: 11-12. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=8153

Reingold, Daniel. How Will Baby Boomers Age?. CLAL Jewish Public Forum Archive. CLAL: the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. 28 January 2002: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=3517

Waxman, Chaim I. Identity and Identification of Jewish Baby Boomers. Brill Books. 2003: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3080

Waxman, Chaim I. Families of American Jewish Baby Boomers. The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity. American Jewish Committee (AJC),KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. 1994: 103-115. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3553

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DOES FAMILY MATTER? THE ROLE OF PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS IN JEWISH EDUCATION Sunday 10-11:30 Sheraton Dalton A/B Chair and Respondent: Harriet Hartman (Rowan University) The Roles of Grandparents in the Education and Socialization of Young Jews Jack Wertheimer (The Jewish Theological Seminary) What Does Life-Course Change in the Jewish Family Look Like? Assumptions Revealed by the Evolution of a Coding Script Alex Pomson (Rosov Consulting) If You Stop Going to Hebrew School, You’re Not Allowed to Horseback Ride: How Do Parents Influence Their Children’s Involvement in Religious School? Ilana Horwitz (Stanford University)

Bernard, Sydney E. Family Jewishness and Family Education. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). 1991: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=3203

Drevitch, Gary. Grandparents: An Untapped Resource. HaYidion. RAVSAK. 2009: 34-35, 49. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=21616

Holstein, Charlotte. Wechsler, Harlan. Kornhaber, Arthur. Monk, Abram. Sainer, Janet. Morris, David. Jewish Grandparenting and the Intergenerational Connection: Summary of Proceedings. American Jewish Committee (AJC). November 1984: 1--31. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=13989

Rosenman, Yehuda. Research on the Jewish Family and Jewish Education. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). March 1984: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=575

Schiff, Alvin I. Trends and Challenges in Jewish Family Education. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). 1991: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3206

Shevitz, Susan L. Sales, Amy L. Koren, Annette. Sh'arim - Building Gateways to Jewish Life and Community: A Report on Boston's Jewish Family Education Initiative. Bureau of Jewish Education,Commission on Jewish Continuity,Maurice & Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (CMJS). 2000: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=13662

Spotlight on: Jewish Family Education. Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA). 2003: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=343

Wolfson, Ron. Siegmann, Lisa Soble. Who Will Teach the Families? Jewish Family Education - Enriching Jewish Journeys. Agenda: Jewish Education. Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA). Spring 2004: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=982

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THE NUMBERS CONTROVERSY AND AMERICAN JEWRY: DISCERNING THE TRENDS AND THEIR MEANING Sunday 11:45-1:15 Sheraton Constitution B Chair: Charles Kadushin (Brandeis University) Cultures of Enumeration Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan) The Shrunken Jewish Middle and Its Implications Steven M. Cohen (HUC–JIR) Demography Is Not Destiny: Use and Misuse of Population Statistics to Predict the Jewish Future Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University)

Jewish Community Study of New York 2011. Sponsor(s): UJA-Federation of New York. Principal Investigator(s): Steven M. Cohen, Jacob B. Ukeles, Ron Miller, Pearl Beck, David Dutwin

Bachi, Roberto. The Demographic Crisis of Diaspora Jewry (background paper no. 4). The President's Continuing Seminar on World Jewry and the State of Israel. 1979: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3102

Cohen, Steven M. What is to be Done? Policy Responses to the Shrinking Jewish Middle. Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner (BJPA). 25 June 2014: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=21551

Kotler-Berkowitz, Laurence A. After Pew: Thinking about American Jewish cohesion, assimilation and division. 7 October 2015: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=22554

Saxe, Leonard. Pew Findings Reject Bleak Narrative of Jewish Decline. Jewish Daily Forward. Forward Association. October 2013: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18386

Saxe, Leonard. Ten Takeaways from Pew. eJewish Philanthropy. eJewish Philanthropy. November 2013: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18781

Schick, Marvin. The Problem With the Pew Study. Tablet Magazine. Nextbook. 18 October 2013: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18369

Schmelz, Uziel O. Jewish Survival: The Demographic Factors. American Jewish Year Book. American Jewish Committee (AJC). 1981: 61-117. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=1351

The Demographic Consequences of U.S. Jewish Population Trends (American Jewish Year Book 1983)

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BEYOND FREEDOM SUMMER: COMPLICATING NARRATIVES OF AMERICAN JEWISH INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AT MIDCENTURY Sunday 11:45-1:15 Sheraton Fairfax B Chair: Judith Ellen Smith (University of Massachusetts Boston) The Boundaries of Brotherhood and Sisterhood: The Jewish Greek System and Grassroots Civil Rights Efforts in the 1950s Shira M. Kohn (Center for Jewish History) “The Problem of Economic Reconstruction”: Jews, Economic Justice, and Civil Rights in the Interwar Years Katie Rosenblatt (University of Michigan) Brooklyn Women Work for Unity: Jewish, Italian, and African American Cooperation in the Brownsville Women’s Non-Partisan Committee for Civic Rights, 1944 Allan Amanik (Brooklyn College, CUNY) Layers of Bureaucracy: Jewish Name Changing and the Struggle for Civil Rights after World War II Kirsten L. Fermaglich (Michigan State University)

Brickner, Balfour. Social Action in Reform Judaism. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 2 April 1993: 88-90. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=9434

Carr, Robert K. Memorandum of the President's Committee on Civil Rights on Group Defamation and Civil Rights. American Jewish Committee (AJC). June 1947: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=19576

Harris, Arnold. Making Civil Rights Laws Work at Home Base. The Jewish Social Service Quarterly. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA),National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare. September 1950: 42-46. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=5810

Proceedings of the Institute of Judaism and Civil Rights. Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). April 1948: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=19592

Prell, Riv-Ellen. Jewish Summer Camping and Civil Rights: How Summer Camps Launched a Transformation in American Jewish Culture. David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs. Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. 2009: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=6800

The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Decisions of the United States Supreme Court fir the 1968-1969 Term: A Summary and Analysis. American Jewish Congress. 1969: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=19370

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THE PITCH OF JEWISH VOICES IN AMERICA Sunday 2:30-4:00 Sheraton Backbay B Chair: Alec Eliezer Burko (The Jewish Theological Seminary) Yiddish-Influenced List Intonation in the Jewish English Repertoire Rachel Steindel Burdin (The Ohio State University) Hello, Jews Calling? Telephone Comedy and the Jewish Voice Joshua Lambert (Yiddish Book Center / University of Massachusetts Amherst) The Jew's Mouth through the Jew's Nose: Nasality, Mauscheln, and Alternative Masculinities Adam Zachary Newton (Yeshiva University) Respondent: Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC–JIR)

Benor, Sarah Bunin. Do American Jews Speak a "Jewish Language"? A Model of Jewish Linguistic Distinctiveness. The Jewish Quarterly Review. Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Spring 2009: 230-269. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4797

Bunin Benor, Sarah. Hameyvin Yavin: Language and Super Jews. AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Fall 2011: 36-37. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=13602

Benor, Sarah Bunin. The Sounds of Becoming Frum. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Josh Rolnick, The Sh'ma Institute. November 2010: 11-12. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=7603

Dawidowicz, Lucy. Yiddish: Past, Present, and Perfect. Commentary Magazine. Commentary Magazine. May 1962: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=13747

Kobrin, Frances E. The Census: Yiddish Mother Tongue Subpopulation and the National Jewish Population Survey. Jewish Population Studies (Papers in Jewish Demography). Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. 1981: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=1004

Spitzer, Jeffrey A. Hearing Multiple Voices: Hearing Midrash as Text. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media). March 2008: 15-16. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=6327

Vaisman, Asya. Women's Voice and Song. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media). February 2007: 10-11. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=6292

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MIGRATION, RELIEF, AND AID IN THE POSTWAR WORLD: DEFINING A NEW TRANSNATIONAL JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE MISSION Sunday 2:30-4:00 Sheraton Berkeley A/B Chair: Avinoam Patt (University of Hartford) A Plea for Heartstrings and Purse Strings: The 1945 Battle for Combined American Jewish Fundraising Rachel Deblinger (University of California, Santa Cruz) Homes for the “Hard Core”: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Efforts to Resettle the Last Jewish Inhabitants of Camp Föhrenwald Kierra Mikaila Crago-Schneider (Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany) The Mass Trachoma Project: Jews and Global Health in Morocco, 1949–1956 Anat Mooreville (University of Washington) Respondent: Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College)

The Joint Distribution Committee and Other Overseas Agencies. The Jewish Social Service Quarterly. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA),National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare. March 1948: 337-340. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=6065

Summary of Presentation by Mr. Louis H. Sobel of Joint Distribution Committee. The Jewish Social Service Quarterly. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA),National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare. September 1946: 21. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=5908

Lightman, Jacob Ben. Foreign Department. The Jewish Social Service Quarterly. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA),National Conference of Jewish Social Service. December 1935: 264-268. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=12192

Ukeles, Jacob B. The Role of JDC in Community Development. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). 2006: 1-22. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=21497

Jewish War Relief Work. American Jewish Year Book. American Jewish Committee (AJC),Jewish Publication Society (JPS). 1918: 194-226. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=5545

Hyman, Joseph C. 25 Years of American Aid to Jews Overseas: A Record of the J.D.C.. American Jewish Year Book. American Jewish Committee (AJC),Jewish Publication Society (JPS). 1940: 141-180. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=19821

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INTERMARRIAGE AND JEWISH AMERICAN CULTURE Sunday 2:30-4:00 Sheraton Clarendon A/B Chair and Respondent: Keren R. McGinity (Brandeis University) “A Grave Experiment”: Intermarriage Plots in the Fiction of Emma Wolf and Bettie Lowenberg Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College) “A Little More Jewish, Please”: Interracial Intermarriage in the Fiction of Erica Jong and Fran Ross Eli Bromberg (University of Massachusetts Amherst) JewAsian: Intermarriage through the Lens of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Difference Helen Kim (Whitman College)

Bayme, Steven. Changing Perceptions of Intermarriage. Conference of Jewish Communal Service,Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). 1990: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3049

FAQ on American Jews - #2 Intermarriage. Sponsor(s): Berman Jewish DataBank@The Jewish Federations of North America. Principal Investigator(s): Ron Miller, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz

McMillan, Allison. Intermarried, Not Interfaith. eJewish Philanthropy. eJewish Philanthropy. April 2015: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=22307

Olitzky, Kerry M. Stern, Eva. Ten Steps for Day Schools to Become More Inclusive of Interfaith Families. HaYidion. RAVSAK. Fall 2007: 6-7. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=21709

Phillips, Benjamin. Chertok, Fern. Jewish Identity Among the Adult Children of Intermarriage: Event Horizon or Navigable Horizon?. Maurice & Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (CMJS). December 2004: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3468

Rosenthal, Erich. Studies of Jewish Intermarriage in the United States. American Jewish Year Book. American Jewish Committee (AJC),Jewish Publication Society (JPS). 1964: 3--56. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=20508

Schwartz, Arnold. Intermarriage in the United States. American Jewish Year Book. American Jewish Committee (AJC). 1970: 101-121. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2096

Winer, Mark L. Communal Responses to Intermarriage. The Intermarriage Crisis - Jewish Communal Perspectives and Responses. American Jewish Committee (AJC). 1991: 43-50. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=10788

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TEACHING PALESTINE IN THE CONTEXT OF PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS OF TEACHING JEWISH STUDIES ISRAEL AND PALESTINE ON AMERICAN Sunday 4:30-6:00 Sheraton Commonwealth COLLEGE CAMPUSES Moderator: Aaron J. Hahn Tapper (University of Monday 1:15-2:45 Sheraton Constitution A San Francisco) Moderator: David Shneer (University Colorado) Discussant: Aomar Boum (University of Discussants: Yael Aronoff (Michigan State California, Los Angeles) University) Oren Kroll-Zeldin (University of San Francisco) Corinne E. Blackmer (Southern Connecticut Shaul Magid (Indiana University) State University) Shira Robinson (The George Washington Michael Brenner (American University) University) Liora Halperin (University of Colorado) Dov Waxman (Northeastern University)

RELIGION, ZIONISM, AND PEDAGOGY IN ISRAEL AND NORTH AMERICA 12:00-1:30 Sheraton Backbay B Chair: Shay Rabineau (Binghamton University) A Gift for the State: Commemorating Fallen Heroes in Israeli Children’s Picture Books - Dan Porat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) How to Teach Politics as Religion: The Case of the Emunah Curriculum - Ilan Fuchs (Hebrew College) “They All Lived Happily Ever After”: American Jewish Children’s Narrations of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Sivan Zakai (American Jewish University) The Impact of Birthright Israel in Comparative Perspective: Evidence from the Pew Survey of US Jews - Rachel Friedberg (Brown University) and Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz (Jewish Federations of North America) The Teaching of Other Religions in Israeli Education—An Analysis of Textbooks and Classroom Interactions - Michael Gillis (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Chazan, Barry. Palestine in American Jewish Education in the Pre-State Period. Indiana University Press. 1980: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3051

Grant, Lisa D. Marom, Daniel. Werchow, Yehudit. Israel Education for What? An Investigation of the Purposes and Possible Outcomes of Israel Education. Israel Education Research Briefs. Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE). 2012: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=20971

Horowitz, Bethamie. Defining Israel Education. The iCenter. 1 March 2012: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=13727

Pomson, Alex. Deitcher, Howard. Muszkat-Barkan, Michal. Frank, Naava. Greenvald, Reuven. Markowitz, Stephen. Mattenson, Pearl. Israel Education in North American Day Schools: A Systems Analysis and Some Strategies for Change. Melton Centre for Jewish Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. April 2009: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=21101

Zakai, Sivan. Constructing Transparent History: A Textbook Case. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Josh Rolnick, The Sh'ma Institute. May 2011: 3. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=11149

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SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE NONES: UNDERSTANDING SECULAR AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY Sunday 4:30-6:00 Sheraton Dalton A/B Chair: Alan Mintz (The Jewish Theological Seminary) A New Form of Identity? The Trend towards Secularity and Secularism among Jewish American College Students Barry A. Kosmin (Trinity College) Are you Pewish? Understanding “Jews of No Religion” in the 2013 Pew Survey of American Jews Raquel Magidin de Kramer, Daniel Parmer, and Elizabeth Tighe (Brandeis University) Becoming Jewish Adults: The Jewish Identity Work of Emerging Adults Rachel Bernstein (Brandeis University)

Beck, Pearl. A Flame Still Burns: The Dimensions and Determinants of Jewish Identity Among Young Adult Children of the Intermarried - Findings and Policy Implications. Big Tent Judaism / Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI). June 2005: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=118

Biale, David. Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Secular Jewish Thought. AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Spring 2011: 5-6. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=12005

BJPA Reader's Guide: Secular Jews & Secular Judaism (with Special Section: The December Dilemma). BJPA Reader's Guides. Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner (BJPA). December 2012: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=15708

Calderon, Ruth. Who is a Secular Jew?. AVAR ve'ATID: A Journal of Jewish Education, Culture and Discourse. Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). October 1997: 7-11. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=13625

A Portrait of Jewish Americans: Findings from a Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews. Pew Research Center. 1 October 2013: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18058

Sarna, Jonathan D. The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Secular Judaism. Contemplate: The International Journal of Cultural Thought. Center for Cultural Judaism. 2007: 3-13. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=12088

Tobin, Gary A. Lin, Patricia. Religious and Spiritual Change in America: The Experience of Marin County, California. Institute for Jewish and Community Research. 2002: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=666

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AMERICAN JEWS AND THE LONG 1960s Monday 8:30-10:00 Sheraton Clarendon A/B Chair: Melissa R. Klapper (Rowan University) Son of Madmen: Biographical/Autobiographical Reflections on Jews in Advertising Alan T. Levenson (University of Oklahoma) World of Our Fathers and World of Our Sons: New York Intellectuals and Student Radicalism Ronnie Avital Grinberg (University of Oklahoma) Not Playing Indian: Race and the Terrain of Identity in Jewish Educational Summer Camps in the 1960s and 1970s Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota)

Abrams, Ruth. Jewishness As Counter-Culture. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 19 February 1971: 85-88. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=10650

Cohen, Steven M. Radical Jewish Youth and this America. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 27 April 1973: 105-106. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=9934

Losing a Child to the Counter-Culture. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 27 December 1974: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=8928

Friedman, Theodore. Judaism as a Counterculture in America. Forum: on the Jewish People, Zionism, and Israel. World Zionist Organization (WZO). 1979: 115-122. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=14041

Hurvitz, Mark. The Depoliticization of Jewish Youth. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 27 April 1973: 103-105. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=9938

Karpel, Craig. How I Became a Moses Freak. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 8 December 1972: 21-24. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=9941

Phillips, Bruce A. The Havurah, a Sociological Perspective. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 24 November 1989: 13-14. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=9703

Tobin, Gary A. A Study of Jewish Culture in the Bay Area. Institute for Jewish and Community Research. 2002: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3520

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CROSSING RELIGIOUS AND GEOGRAPHIC BORDERS Monday 8:30-10:00 Sheraton Dalton A/B Chair: Daniel Parmer (Brandeis University) Intermarriage, but Not Interfaith: The Latest Generations Redefine the Acceptable Jewish Family of the Twenty-First Century Samuel Richardson (University of Virginia) Changing Communities or Changing Identities? A Comparative Perspective on Latin American Jewish Immigrants in the United States Laura Limonic (SUNY College at Old Westbury) In Good Times and Bad: The Experience of Shliḥim at American Overnight Camps during a Time of Crisis Amy L. Sales and Nicole Samuel (Brandeis University) Obviousness: Conversion, Passing, and the Surprising Benefit of Phenotypic Dissimilarity Adam L. Horowitz (Stanford University)

BJPA Reader's Guide: Conversion. BJPA Reader's Guides. Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner (BJPA). 2 March 2014: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18989

Bokser Liwerant, Judit. Latin American Jews: A Transnational Diaspora. Transnationalism: Diasporas and the advent of a new (dis)order. Brill Books. 2009: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=10926

Burbinski, Enrique. Schulman, Jorge. Szteinhandler, Schmuel. Latin American Jewish Communities: Old and New Challenges. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). December 1997: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=1304

Cohen, Steven M. Religiosity and Ethnicity: Jewish Identity Trends in the United States. 2001: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=14267

Ellenson, David. Olitzky, Kerry M. Conversion Is Not An Outreach Strategy. Jewish Daily Forward. Big Tent Judaism / Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI),Forward Association. 12 May 2006: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4668

Epstein, Lawrence J. Continuity and Conversion. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). June 1999: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=1270

Tobin, Gary A. The Case for Proactive Conversion. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media). October 1999: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=662

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JEWISH COMMUNAL SURVEYS IN POSTWAR NEW SOCIAL SCIENCE QUESTIONS ABOUT AMERICA JEWISH LIFE Monday 8:30-10:00 Gardner A Monday 10:30-12:00 Berkeley A/B Chair: Kirsten L. Fermaglich (Michigan State Chair: Rela Mintz Geffen (Gratz College) University) Subcultural Diversity in American Cold War Surveying Liberalism: Jewish Politics in the Age of Culture: The Case of the Soviet Heightened Jewish Jewry Movement Diversity Shaul Kelner (Vanderbilt University) Max D. Baumgarten (University of California, Los The Twentieth-Century Encounter of Judaism with Angeles) “Eastern Spiritualities”: The Janowsky Survey and the Postwar Purpose Challenges, Assets, and Everything in between of the Jewish Community Mira Neshama Niculescu (L’École des Hautes Center Études en Sciences Sociales) Avigail S. Oren (Carnegie Mellon University) Why Postcolonial Papua New Guineans Think Jewish Communal Surveys at the American They Are Jews—And What It Jewish Historical Society Means for Jewish Studies Susan Woodland (American Jewish Historical Eric Silverman (Wheelock College) Society) American Judaism: The Interplay of Natural and Respondent: Lila Corwin Berman (Temple Intentional Communities University) Michael S. Berger (Emory University)

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INTERROGATING IDENTITY: NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF JEWISH ADULTS Monday 1:15-2:45 Sheraton Hampton A/B Chair: Debra Renee Kaufman (Northeastern University) Traditional Jews: “Nones” on Religion Ari Y. Kelman (Stanford University) Under Construction: The Social Life of Jewish Identity Tobin Belzer (University of Southern California) At the Nexus of Multiple Identities: Young Adult Adoptees, Jewishness, and Birth Heritage Jennifer Sartori (Northeastern University) and Jayne K. Guberman (Adoption and Jewish Identity Project)

Arnow, David. Toward a Psychology of Jewish Identity: A Multidimensional Approach. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). 1994: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3355

Belzer, Tobin. Phillips, Benjamin. McGinity, Keren. Landres, Shawn. Tobin, Diane. Ukeles, Jack. Counting What Matters: A Roundtable. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Josh Rolnick, The Sh'ma Institute. October 2010: 4-7. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=7262

Belzer, Tobin. Putting Aside the Study of Individualism. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Josh Rolnick, The Sh'ma Institute. November 2013: 5-6. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=18440

Horowitz, Bethamie. Indicators of Jewish Identity: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Understanding American Jewry. Mandel Foundation. November 1999: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=2285

Knopp, Abby. The Multiplicity of Jewish Expression. eJewish Philanthropy. eJewish Philanthropy. October 2013: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18506

Kress, Jeffrey. Elias, Maurice J. It Takes a Kehilla to Make a Mensch: Building Jewish Identity as Part of Overall Identity. Jewish Education News. Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE). 1998: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2009

Schlosser, Lewis Z. Balkin, Richard S. Heller-Levitt, Dana. Religious Identity and Cultural Diversity: Exploring the Relationships Between Religious Identity, Sexism, Homophobia, and Multicultural Competence. Journal of Counseling and Development. American Counseling Association. Fall 2009: 420-427. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=5616

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THE VIEW ACROSS THE OCEAN: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH OF AMERICAN JEWRY IN ISRAEL AND OF ISRAEL BY AMERICAN JEWS Monday 3:00-4:00 Sheraton Backbay C Chair: Pamela S. Nadell (American University) Israeli Jargon: Lost in Transliteration? Nadav G. Molchadsky (University of California, Los Angeles) “A Jewish-American Prophet in Jerusalem”: Religion in the Historiography of Judah L. Magnes David Barak-Gorodetsky (University of Haifa) Henrietta Szold: American Zionism in Palestine Vardit Garber (University of Haifa) The Past Is a Foreign Country? Archival Gazes of Jewish Studies across the Atlantic Jason Lustig (University of California, Los Angeles) Nationalism in a Magidic Key: Eastern European Propagandists and the Dissemination of Zionism in America during World War I Judah Mark Bernstein (New York University) The Struggle at America’s Zionist/Anti-Zionist “Front Line”: American Jewish Groups and the Organization of Arab Students, 1953–1977 Geoffrey Phillip Levin (New York University) Respondent: Zohar Segev (University of Haifa)

Ament, Jonathon. Israel Connections and American Jews - Report Series on the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01. United Jewish Communities (UJC). August 2005: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2848

Bayme, Steven. Hoffman, Alan D. Hertzberg, Arthur. Itzhaki, Moshe. Trachtenberg, Stephen Joel. Troy, Gil. Troen, S. Ilan. Dash Moore, Deborah. Megged, Aharon. Israel On My Mind. American Jewish Committee (AJC). 2005: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=307

Cohen, Steven M. Abrams, Sam. Israel Off Their Minds: The Diminished Place of Israel in the Political Thinking of Young Jews. Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner (BJPA). 27 October 2008: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=207

Ezrachi, Elan. Israel and Identity Building: Educating American Jews About Israel. The Reconstructionist. Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA). Spring 1998: 5-11.. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4367

Grant, Lisa D. Kopelowitz, Ezra. Strengthening the Connection of American Jews to Israel: A case study of one attempt to transform the place of Israel in Four St. Louis Synagogues. Research Success Technologies. December 2009: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4147

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MODERN JEWISH PHILANTHROPY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF JEWISH LIFE Monday 3:00-4:30 Sheraton Hampton A/B Chair: Noam F. Pianko (University of Washington) 1969: The Year That Rocked the Jewish Philanthropic World Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) Jewish Philanthropy in the New Gilded Age Moshe Kornfeld (University of Colorado) Ethnography between Heritage and Inheritance: Working toward a Political Economy of Postvernacular Yiddish Language and Culture in the United States Joshua Benjamin Friedman (University of Michigan) Global Jewish Philanthropy and the Arts in Israel: From the State’s Early Years to Today Galeet Dardashti (Rutgers University) The Emergence of American Jewish Communal Philanthropy and of American Municipal Reform: The View from Cincinnati Karla Goldman (University of Michigan) Respondent: Ari Y. Kelman (Stanford University)

Brody, Baruch. Our Poor and Their Poor: Philosophical Reflections. Toward a Renewed Ethic of Jewish Philanthropy. KTAV Publishing House, Inc.,Yeshiva University Press. October 2009: 221-239. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=8853

Prager, Yossi. Strategic Philanthropy: Linking Central and Local Philanthropy. eJewish Philanthropy. eJewish Philanthropy. November 2013: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18692

Solomon, Jeffrey. Ruskay, John S. Rubinton, Noel. Organized Philanthropy's Relationship to Independent Jewish Philanthropy: A Dialogue between John Ruskay and Jeffrey Solomon. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). Winter 2009: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2485

Steinhardt, Michael H. Grinspoon, Harold. Wieder, K'vod. Contact: The Journal of the Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation -- New Visions of Jewish Philanthropy. Contact: The Journal of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life. Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life. Winter 2006: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2436

Tobin, Gary A. The Transition of Communal Values and Behavior in Jewish Philanthropy. Institute for Jewish and Community Research. 2001: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2839

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PHILOSEMITISM AND ANTISEMITISM IN ANTISEMITISM AND THE UNITED STATES IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE Monday GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 3:00-4:30 Sheraton Dalton A/B Tuesday 8:30-10:00 Sheraton Hampton A/B Chair: Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University) Chair: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Microaggressions, “Jokes,” and BDS: US Jews’ Connecticut) Perceptions of and Experiences Explanations for Varying Levels of Antisemitism in with Antisemitism American Jewish Matthew E. Boxer and Matthew Brookner Communities (Brandeis University) Ira Martin Sheskin (University of Miami) Israel, American Jews, and Evangelicals Campus Antisemitism in the United States and Bruce A. Phillips (HUC–JIR) United Kingdom Antisemitism and Party Politics in Post- Ariela Keysar (Trinity College) Communist Hungary The Discourse of Global Contemporary Csaba Nikolenyi (Concordia University) Antisemitism: The Implications of US Respondent: Jody Myers (California State Foreign Policy University, Northridge) Charles A. Small (Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy)

Berrin, Susan. Editor's Introduction to Jews and Evangelicals. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media). May 2007: 1. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=6756

Engel, Robyn Alana. Perceived Anti-Semitism at UC Berkeley: Jewish Students' Subjective Experiences. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). 1995: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3385

Kosmin, Barry A. Keysar, Ariela. National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students 2014: Anti-Semitism Report. National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students 2014. Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law,Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. February 2015: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=22206

Poupko, Yehiel. Jews & Evangelicals: From Missionizing to Partnership?. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media). May 2007: 1-3. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=6757

Schlosser, Lewis Z. Microaggressions in Everyday Life: The American Jewish Experience. October 2008: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=5621

The 2013 Survey of American Attitudes Toward Jews in America. Anti-Defamation League (ADL),Marttila Strategies. November 2013: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=18493

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"ARAB" JEWS IN NORTH AMERICA Monday 5:00-6:30 Sheraton Clarendon A/B Chair: Nadia Donna Malinovich (Université de Picardie / Sciences Po) The New York Syrian Jewish Community as a Diaspora Social Group Mijal Bitton (New York University) Syrian Jewish Religious Modernities in Mexico City Evelyn Dean-Olmsted (University of Puerto Rico) Sambusak Sundays: A Failed Ritual or a Preservation Commitment? Norma Baumel Joseph (Concordia University) Conceptualizing the Dislocation of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa Shayna Zamkanei (University of Chicago)

Angel, Marc D. Sephardic-Ashkenazic Intramarriage. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 20 January 1984: 44-46. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=10273

DellaPergola, Sergio. "Sepharadic and Oriental" Jews in Israel and Western countries: Migration, Social Change, and Identification. Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. 2007: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2705 de Sola Pool, D.. The Immigration of Levantine Jews into the United States. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). 1 June 1914: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=3354

Hacker, Louis M. The Communal Life of the Sephardic Jews in New York City. The Jewish Social Service Quarterly. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA),National Conference of Jewish Social Service. December 1926: 32-40. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=12639

Kohl, Chaye. The Sephardi/Ashkenazi Divide. HaYidion. RAVSAK. Fall 2007: 8-10. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=21710

Robinson, Randy. College Outreach: The Integration of Russian, Sephardic and Israeli Immigrant Groups. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). September 1983: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=562

Rockoff, Avi. Speaking Sephardic. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. CLAL: the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. 24 January 1997: 4-6. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=8456

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TRANSNATIONAL JEWISH GIVING TO ZION: COMMUNITY BUILDING, IDENTITY, AND AUTHORITY Monday 5:00-6:30 Sheraton Jefferson Chair: Natan Aridan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Cornering the Market on American Jewish Giving to Israel: The History of the Committee for the Control and Authorization of Campaigns Eric Fleisch (Brandeis University) The Shadar-Host Economy in Early Modern Italy David Joshua Malkiel (Bar-Ilan University) Gift Giving, Nationalism, and the Organization of Jewish American-Israel Relations Dan Lainer-Vos (University of Southern California)

Blum, Dvora. The Ambivalent Emergence of Philanthropy in Israel. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). Spring 2009: 96-105. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4121

Cohen, Steven M. Beyond Philanthropy and Politics. AVAR ve'ATID: A Journal of Jewish Education, Culture and Discourse. Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). September 1994: 100-105. http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=13635

Glasser, Harold. Philanthropy for Israel. The Jewish Social Service Quarterly. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA),National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare. June 1951: 361-370. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=5823

Shalgi, Yael. A Conceptual Map of Poverty in Israel: Good Philanthropy Needs Good Information. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). Spring 2009: 106-114. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4122

Solomon, Jeffrey R. Intentional Philanthropy: Geographic Considerations. eJewish Philanthropy. eJewish Philanthropy. November 2013: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=18695

Tobin, Gary A. Weinberg, Aryeh K. Karp, Alex C. American Mega-Giving: A Comparison to Global Disaster Relief. Institute for Jewish and Community Research. 2005: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=705

Waxman, Chaim I. American Jewish Philanthropy, Direct Giving, and the Unity of the Jewish Community. Toward a Renewed Ethic of Jewish Philanthropy. KTAV Publishing House, Inc.,Yeshiva University Press. October 2009: 53-77. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=8845

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ORTHODOXY, GENDER, AND THE BODY Tuesday 8:30-10:00 Constitution B Chair: Jody Myers (California State University, Northridge) Religious Defection and the Transformation of Bodily Practices Lynn R. Davidman (University of Kansas) Rid Yourself of Frigidity and Impotence: The Empowering Sexual Hygiene of Esther Jungreis’s Orthodoxy Matthew Williams (Stanford University) Hishtadlut and Bitaḥon: Haredi Women Negotiate Bodily Autonomy and Divine Intervention Michal Raucher (University of Cincinnati) Serving God with My Naked Body Cara Rock-Singer (Columbia University)

Benor, Sarah Bunin. Talmid Chachams and Tsedeykeses: Language, Learnedness, and Masculinity Among Orthodox Jews. Jewish Social Studies. Stanford University: Taube Center for Jewish Studies. Fall 2004: 147-169. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4812

Charmé, Stuart Z. The Political Transformation of Gender Traditions at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Indiana University Press. Spring 2005: 5-34. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=13389

El-Or, Tamar. Gender and Literacy among Young Orthodox Jewish Women. Working Paper Series. Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women. 1 November 1999: 199-102. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2139

Fein, Leonard. The Offense of the Defense. Moment Magazine. Moment Magazine. December 1978: 63-64. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=14662

Greenberg, Steve. The Mechitza and Community. CLAL Community and Society Archive. CLAL: the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. 2001: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=2097

Hartman, Harriet. How Gender Shapes the Jewish Experience . Jewish Women and Work: A Panel Discussion. Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. 3 December 2009: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/ details.cfm?PublicationID=4567

Sztokman, Elana. Idea #4: Orthodox Feminist Day Schools. The Sisterhood. Forward Association. 3 February 2010: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=4378

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INVENTIONS OF MODERN JEWISH IDENTITY IN THE AMERICAS Tuesday 12:00-1:30 Sheraton Backbay C Chair: Beth S. Wenger (University of Pennsylvania) Horace Kallen's Cold War: A Secular Jewish Opposition to Communism and Catholicism David Weinfeld (Queens College, CUNY) Yugntruf’s Mameloshn: Yiddish, Youth, and Identity Politics in 1960s–1970s America Sandra Fox (New York University) “Where There Is Not Even a Shadow of Prejudice”: European Jewish Immigrants and Brazilian National Identity, 1945–1955 Michael Rom (Yale University) Forgetting and Remembering: American Jews and the Changing History of Zionism Rachael Kamel (Temple University)

Bush, Lawrence. Thinking About Male Jewish Identity. The Reconstructionist. Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA). Fall 2001: 67-69. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=4178

Cohen, Steven M. Eisen, Arnold. The Sovereign Self: Jewish Identity in Post-Modern America. Jerusalem Letter / Viewpoints. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). 1 May 2001: http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2193

Ellenson, David. Gerstenfeld, Manfred. How Modernity Changed Judaism. Changing Jewish Communities. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). 15 September 2008: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2239

Farber, Roberta Rosenberg. Creative Decision-Making and the Construction of a Modern Jewish Identity. Jewish Population Studies (Papers in Jewish Demography). Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. 2001: 317-330. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2797

Oppenheim, Michael. Modern Jewish Identity: The Prominence of the Issue. Forum: on the Jewish People, Zionism, and Israel. Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI),World Zionist Organization (WZO). 1984: 95-103. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=3566

Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Rachel. Toward a New Understanding of Jewish Peoplehood: Undoing the False Tension of Particularism and Universalism. The Peoplehood Papers. The Jewish Peoplehood Hub. November 2010: 24-26. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=11805

Starr, David. The Emergence of American Zionism. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media). May 1999: 8. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=8751

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JEWISH BOUNDARIES AND BORDER CROSSINGS IN PROTESTANT AMERICA Tuesday 12:00-1:30 Sheraton Beacon A Chair and Respondent: Michael A. Meyer (HUC–JIR) Jews in Church: Rethinking Space and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America Shari Lisa Rabin (College of Charleston) Dissecting the December Dilemma: Post-WWII Rabbis on American Jews and Christmas Celebrations Joshua J. Furman (Rice University) Reform Judaism’s Patrilineal Descent and the Shaping of Intermarriage Discourse in American Judaism Zev Eleff (Hebrew Theological College)

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman. Determinants of Religious Intermarriage: Are Jews Really Different?. Jewish Population Studies (Papers in Jewish Demography). Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. 1993: 247-257. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=432

Cohen, Steven M. Blitzer, Lauren. Belonging Without Believing: Jews and their Distinctive Patterns of Religiosity-and Secularity. Florence G. Heller-JCC Association (JCCA) Research Center. September 2008: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=795

Cohen, Steven M. Ritterband, Paul. Why Contemporary American Jews Want Small Families: An Interreligious Comparison of College Graduates. E.J. Brill (Firm). January 1981: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=189

Cohen, Steven M. Ritterband, Paul. Religion, Religiosity and Fertility Desires: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of American College Graduates. Jewish Population Studies (Papers in Jewish Demography). Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. January 1980: 115-142. http:// www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2767

Rubenstein, Richard L. Status Politics and the Bush Presidency. Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Eugene Borowitz. 16 October 1992: 149-152. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm? PublicationID=10597

Smith, Tom W. Jewish Distinctiveness in America - A Statistical Portrait. American Jewish Committee (AJC). April 2005: http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=2845

Tobin, Gary A. Lin, Patricia. Religious and Spiritual Change in America: The Experience of Marin County, California. Institute for Jewish and Community Research. 2002: http://www.bjpa.org/ Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=666

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