Caroline Morganti
By Caroline Morganti
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Opinion The Secret To Jewish Continuity? Hard Conversations About Israel
In an op-ed last week in these pages, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove argued that American Jews focus on Israel as a coping mechanism to distract us from “the endangered condition of our Judaism” caused by assimilation and intermarriage. If we could only allocate our resources to Jewish education and communal institutions and away from the constant…
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Opinion Donors Shouldn’t Dictate Young Jews’ Opinions On Israel
The American Jewish community has a problem. Our institutions — Hillels, Jewish community centers, synagogues, day schools — are increasingly beholden to a group of wealthy donors whose politics are far out-of-line with the majority of the American Jewish community. For instance, though American Jews supported the Iran deal by wide margins, 55 Jewish federations…
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