Technological, organizational and social turbulence: Contemporary Jewish communal challenges

Examples of Sklare’s work includeAmerica’s Jews (Random House, 1971) andThe Jews: Social Patterns of an American Group (Free Press, 1958). The high rate of intermarriage has been thoroughly documented in the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey by the Council of Jewish Federations and the 2000 NJPS by the United Jewish Communities. See, for example, Egon Mayer,Love and Tradition: Marriage between Jews and Christians (Plenum, 1985) and Bruce Phillips, “Reexamining Intermarriage: Trends, Textures and Strategies” (American Jewish Committee, 1998). See NJPS. Seymour Lipset,American Pluralism and the Jewish Community (Transaction, 1990). Robert Bellah explores this issue in some depth inHabits of the Heart (University of California Press, 1985). See suggestions inMelton Journal, Summer 1984. See COMJEE II (JCCA, 1995) or the National Hillel website for examples of these organizational transformations. One example of the growing evidence of the impact of cost of Jewish living is Rela Monson and Ruth Feldman, “The Cost of Living Jewishly in Philadelphia,”Journal of Jewish Communal Service 68.2, Winter 1991–92, pp. 148–159. The Alban Institute has published several overviews of the research on human spirituality. This idea was explored by Carl Sheingold in an essay published by the American Jewish Committee in the mid-1980s. The program was launched in part through a Wexner Foundation grant, then continued with federation funding for several years. It was forced to scale back radically when federation funding for the program shrank.