Fragile Diaspora Communities
Death: The Deepest Challenge
Reviewed by Rabbi Julian Sinclair
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering
and the Human Condition, Ed. David Schatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Rueven Ziegler (New Jersey: KTAV 2003): 243 pp., $24.50
Rachel S. Hallote, Ivan R. Dee, Death, Burial and Afterlife in the Biblical World, Ed. David Hazony(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001): [...]
Heed the Words: Next Year in Jerusalem
Shimon Felix
Some communities have become museums, expending tremendous amounts of money and energy maintaining a community that has lost its reason to be.
Jewish Population Trends in Israel and the Diaspora
Sergio DellaPergola
International migration over the past 50 years has reshaped the geographical map of world Jewry and fundamentally changed the environments in which Jewish life develops.
A Phoenix Over Germany
Wladimir Struminski
In the coming years, some 10,000 people per year are expected to make Germany their new home under the Jewish refugee program. The influx has dramatically strengthened Jewish life in Germany.
Discussion Guide – Fragile Diaspora Communities
1. Are Jewish organizations, synagogues, schools, federations, marketing Judaism or are they marketing their individual missions, programs, appeals?
2. How will marketing effectiveness be measured?
3. In a society so embedded in popular culture, how do we appeal to unaffiliated, especially young, Jews without subverting our message in a cultural malaise?
4. If Jews are commanded to be “A Light to the Nations,” should we engage in proselytizing? How do we interpret this verse?
