Changing Jewish Communities

Changing Jewish Communities 

Monthly publication:

• Highly Engaged Young American Jews: Contrasts in Generational Ethos - Interview with Steven M. Cohen (No. 60. 15 September 2010)
• Environmental Activism in the Canadian Jewish Community - Ira Robinson and Yosef Dov Robinson (No. 59, 15 August 2010)
• Elderly Jews: An Increasing Priority for the American Jewish Community? - Ira M. Sheskin (No. 58, 15 July 2010)
• Jewish-Muslim Interaction in Canada - Interview with David Goldberg (No. 57, 15 June 2010)
• American Jewry's Comfort Level: Present and Future - Manfred Gerstenfeld (No. 56, 15 May 2010)
• Scotland's Jews: Community and Political Challenges - Kenneth Collins and Ephraim Borowski (No. 55, 15 April 2010)
• The Future of Conservative Jewry - Interview with Arnold M. Eisen (No. 54, 15 March 2010)
• The Roles of the Jews in Italian Society - Interview with Dan Segre (No. 53, 15 February 2010)
• The Future of Jewish Education - Interview with Jack Wertheimer (No. 52, 15 January 2010)
• How French Society Views the Jews - Interview with Shmuel Trigano (No. 51, 15 December 2009)
• Insights into the Situation of the Jews in the Netherlands - Interview with Henri Markens (No. 50, 15 November 2009)
• American Jewry's Future as Seen Fifty Years Ago and Now - Steven Bayme (No. 49, 15 October 2009)
• Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenges to Its Establishment - Interview with Marc Shapiro (No. 48, 15 September 2009)
• The Unfolding Economic Crisis: Its Devastating Implications for American Jewry - Steven Windmueller (No. 47, 16 August 2009)
• Jewish Grandparenting in the United States - Interview with Rela Mintz Geffen (No. 46, 15 July 2009)
• Muslim-Jewish Relations in Australia: Challenges and Threats - Interview with Jeremy Jones (No. 45, 15 June 2009)
• Revisiting the 2008 Presidential Election: Reflections on the Jewish Vote - Steven Windmueller (No. 44, 15 May 2009)
• The Jews in Poland: Recent Developments - Interview with Rabbi Michael Schudrich (No. 43, 15 April 2009)
• China's Interaction with Israel and the Jewish People - Interview with Shalom Salomon Wald (No. 42, 15 March 2009)
• The Birthright Israel Program: Present and Possible Future Impacts - Interview with Leonard Saxe (No. 41, 15 February 2009)
• Jewish-Muslim Relations in Sweden - Mikael Tossavainen (No. 40, 15 January 2009)
• Introducing Israel Studies in U.S. Universities - Interview with Mitchell Bard (No. 39, 15 December 2008)
• The Contemporary Rivalry over the Chosen People: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives - Avi Beker (No. 38, 16 November 2008)
• Muslims and Jews in Switzerland - Simon Erlanger (No. 37, 15 October 2008)
• How Modernity Changed Judaism - Interview with Rabbi David Ellenson (No. 36, 15 September 2008)
• Ireland's Jews: Past, Present, Future - Rory Miller (No. 35, 15 August 2008)
• Jewish-Latino Interactions in the United States - Interview with Steven Windmueller (No. 34, 15 July 2008)
• The Salute to Israel Parade - Marissa Gross (No. 33, 15 June 2008)
• Muslim-Jewish Interactions in Great Britain - Interview with Michael Whine (No. 32, 15 May 2008)
• The Jewish Communities of the Western United States - Steven Windmueller (No. 31, 15 April 2008)
• Changes in American Jewish Identities: From Normative Constructions to Aesthetic Understandings - Interview with Steven M. Cohen (No. 30, 16 March 2008)
• The Fragmentation of American Jewry and Its Leadership - Interview with Jack Wertheimer (No. 29, 15 February 2008)
• Israel and American Jewry: Oslo and Beyond - Steven Bayme (No. 28, 15 January 2008)
• The Transformation of Jewish Knowledge over the Decades: The New Edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica - Interview with Michael Berenbaum (No. 27, 16 December 2007)
• Muslim-Jewish Interaction in the Netherlands  - Manfred Gerstenfeld (No. 26, 15 November 2007)
• The Intellectual Assault on Israel and pro-Israel Advocacy: How the American Jewish Community Should React - Steven Bayme (No 25, 15 October 2007)
• Bosnian Jewry: A Small Community Meets a Unique Challenge During the 1990s War - Interview with Ivan Ceresnjes (No 24, 16 September 2007)
• The Orthodox Union and Its Challenges - Interview with Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb (No 23, 15 August 2007)
• Christian-Jewish Relations in the Netherlands - Interview with Tzvi C. Marx (No 22, 15 July 2007)
• The Future of Reform Jewry - Interview with Rabbi Professor David Ellenson (No 21, 15 June 2007)
• Jewish Life in Independent Ukraine: Fifteen Years After the Soviet Collapse (Part 2) - Betsy Gidwitz (No 20, 15 May 2007)
• Jewish Life in Independent Ukraine: Fifteen Years After the Soviet Collapse (Part 1) - Betsy Gidwitz (No 19, 15 April 2007)
• Is There a Future for Jews in Switzerland? - Simon Erlanger (No 18, 15 March 2007)
• Turkish Jewry Today - Rifat N. Bali (No 17, 15 February 2007)
• How the Status of American Jewish Women Has Changed Over the Past Decades - Interview with Rela Mintz Geffen (No 16, 15 January 2007)
• Jewish Education in the United States: Improving but Still a Long Way to Go - Interview with Jonathan Woocher (No 15, 15 December 2006)
• The Chief Rabbi's View on Jews and Poland - Interview with Rabbi Michael Schudrich (No 14, 15 November 2006)
• The Jewish Community of Australia and Its Challenges - Jeremy Jones (No 13, 15 October 2006)
• Canadian Jewry Today: Portrait of a Community in the Process of Change - Ira Robinson (No 12, 15 September 2006)
• The Future of the Jews in France - Interview with Shmuel Trigano (No 11, 15 August 2006)
• From Binationalism to Multiculturalism to the Open Society: The Impact on Canadian Jews - Michael Brown (No 10, 16 July 2006)
• Modern Orthodoxy and Its Future - Interview with Rabbi Norman Lamm (No 9, 15 June 2006)
• Jewish Education in the Age of Google - Jonathan Woocher (No 8, 15 May 2006)
• Intermarriage and Jewish Leadership in the United States - Steven Bayme (No 7, 16 April 2006)
• Blacks and Jews in America: History, Myths, and Realities - Jerome A. Chanes (No 6, 15 March 2006)
• UJA-Federation of New York: Strengthening a Global Jewish Identity - Interview with John Ruskay (No 5, 15 February 2006)
• Transformations in the Composition of American Jewish Households - Sylvia Barack Fishman (No 4, 15 January 2006)
• The Chabad Lubavitch Movement: Filling the Jewish Vacuum Worldwide - Interview with Samuel Heilman (No 3, 15 December 2005)
• The Jews, Israel, and India - Interview with Nathan Katz (No 2, 15 November 2005)
• Winners and Losers in Denominational Memberships in the United States - Chaim I. Waxman (No 1, 16 October 2005)

• Observations on Jewish Community Life in Moscow: Report of a Visit November 22 to December 2, 2004 - Betsy Gidwitz

• Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic Roles of Jews in Swiss Society - Simon Erlanger (Jewish Political Studies Review 22:1-2, Spring 2010)
• The Field of Canadian Jewish Studies and Its Importance for the Jewish Community of Canada - Ira Robinson (Jewish Political Studies Review 21:3-4, Fall 2009)
• Jews in the Psyche of America - Steven Windmueller (Jewish Political Studies Review 21:3-4, Fall 2009)
• Local Jewish Community Studies as Planning Tools for the American Jewish Community - Ira M. Sheskin (Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2, Spring 2009)
• Symbolic and Other Roles of Jews in Dutch Society - Manfred Gerstenfeld (Jewish Political Studies Review 20:3-4, Fall 2008)
• Policy Implications of the Gender Imbalance among America's Jews - Sylvia Barack Fishman and Daniel Parmer (Jewish Political Studies Review 20:3-4, Fall 2008)
• Four Questions about American Jewish Demography - Ira Sheskin (Jewish Political Studies Review 20:1-2, Spring 2008)
• Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Italy, 1945-1951 - Susanna Kokkonen (Jewish Political Studies Review 20:1-2, Spring 2008)
• The Final Exodus of the Libyan Jews in 1967 - Maurice Roumani (Jewish Political Studies Review 19:3-4, Fall 2007)
• Canadian Jews and Multiculturalism: Myths and Realities - Michael Brown (Jewish Political Studies Review 19:3-4, Fall 2007)
• Zionism and Australian Jewry Before 1948: The Battle for Ideological and Communal Supremacy - Peter Y. Medding (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:3-4, Fall 2006)
• Religious Leadership in Israel's Religious Zionism: The Case of the Board of Rabbis - Asher Cohen and Aaron Kampinsky (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:3-4, Fall 2006)
• Choosing Religious Court Judges in Israel: A Case Study - Sharon Shenhav (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:3-4, Fall 2006)
• American Jews and Evangelical Christians: Anatomy of a Changing Relationship - Carl Schrag (Jewish Political Studies Review 17:1-2, Spring 2005)
• Jews and Fundamentalism - Samuel C. Heilman (Jewish Political Studies Review 17:1-2, Spring 2005)
• Hazkarah: A Symbolic Day for the Reconstituting of the Jewish-Ethiopian Community - Emanuela Trevisan Semi (Jewish Political Studies Review 17:1-2, Spring 2005)
• VP527: Evaluating Muslim-Jewish Relations in Britain - Ben Cohen (February 1-15, 2005)
• VP519: The Impact of Recent Watershed Events on American Jewry - Manfred Gerstenfeld (June 15, 2004)
• VP509: Are American Jews Becoming Republican? Insights into Jewish Political Behavior - Steven Windmueller (December 15, 2003)
• VP505: Countervailing Trends in American Jewry -  An Interview with Norman Podhoretz (October 15, 2003)
• VP492: September 11: Its Implications for American Jewry - Steven Windmueller (February 16, 2003)
• Institutionalization of the Post-Communist Jewish Movement: Organizational Structures, Ruling Elites, and Political Conflicts - Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin (Jewish Political Studies Review 14:1-2, Spring 2002)
• Organized National Life of Russian Jews in the Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Era: a View from Moscow - Eugene Satanovky (Jewish Political Studies Review 14:1-2, Spring 2002)
• Welfare Policy and Social Security in Post-Communist Jewish Communities: The Case of Ukraine - Yosef Zissels (Jewish Political Studies Review 14:1-2, Spring 2002)
• The Phoenix Revisited - The Jewish Community of Russia Since Perestroika: a View from Jerusalem - Theodore H. Friedgut (Jewish Political Studies Review 14:1-2, Spring 2002)
• Spiritual Potential of the Communal Revival: Yiddish Culture and Post-Soviet Jewry - Velvl Chernin (Jewish Political Studies Review 14:1-2, Spring 2002)
• Jewish Defense in Libya - Rachel Simon (Jewish Political Studies Review 13:3-4, Fall 2001)
• The Jews of Steamboat Springs - Daniel J. Elazar (Jewish Political Studies Review 13:3-4, Fall 2001)
• Citizen Rights in Flux: The Influence of American Immigrants to Israel on Modes of Political Activism - Avi Kay (Jewish Political Studies Review 13:3-4, Fall 2001)
• VP462: American Jewish Public Activity - Identity, Demography, and the Institutional Challenge - Sherry Israel (September 16, 2001)
• JL452: Jewish Life in Ukraine at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Part Two - Betsy Gidwitz (April 15, 2001)
• JL451: Jewish Life in Ukraine at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Part One - Betsy Gidwitz (April 1, 2001)
• JL435: Religion and the Public Square: Attitudes of American Jews in Comparative Perspective - Part Two - Steven M. Cohen (August 1, 2000)
• JL432: Setting the Terms of Reference: Daniel J. Elazar's Impact on American Jewish Organizational Life - Gerald B. Bubis (June 15, 2000)
• The Politics of American Jews: Cohesion, Division, and Representation at the Institutional Level - Laurence A. Kotler-Berkowitz and Lawrence Sternberg (Jewish Political Studies Review 12:1-2, Spring 2000)
• Organization Theory and the Future of Jewish Community Relations Councils - Mordecai Lee (Jewish Political Studies Review 12:1-2, Spring 2000)
• JL429: The Flourishing of Higher Jewish Learning for Women - Rochelle Furstenberg (May 1, 2000)
• JL425: The Jews of Japan - Daniel Ari Kapner and Stephen Levine (March 1, 2000)
• VP421: The Mission of the Schools of Jewish Communal Service in the United States - Rela Mintz Geffen (January 2, 2000)
• Post-Soviet Jewry: Critical Issues - Betsy Gidwitz (1999)
• VP420: The Intellectual World of Daniel Elazar - Manfred Gerstenfeld and Zvi Marom (December 15, 1999)
• VP417: A New Agenda for the Jewish People - Daniel J. Elazar and Manfred Gerstenfeld (November 1, 1999)
• Jewish NGOs, Human Rights, and Public Advocacy: A Comparative Inquiry - Irwin Cotler (Jewish Political Studies Review 11:3-4, Fall 1999)
• Good Fences do not Necessarily Make Good Neighbors: Jews and Judaism in Canada's Schools and Universities - Michael Brown (Jewish Political Studies Review 11:3-4, Fall 1999)
• Transnational Religion, Religious Schools, and the Dilemma of Public Funding for Jewish Education: The Case of Ontario - Stuart Schoenfeld (Jewish Political Studies Review 11:1-2, Spring 1999)
• JL407: Rethinking Latino-Jewish Relations in Los Angeles - Steven Windmueller (June 1, 1999)
• VP410: Partnership 2000: A New Model for Diaspora-Israel Relations - Raviv Schwartz (July 15, 1999)
• Identities, Pluralism, and Israel-Diaspora Relations: A Pragmatic Perspective on the Jewish Public Square - Manfred Gerstenfeld (Jewish Political Studies Review 11:1-2, Spring 1999)
• Virtual Reality Comes to Canadian Jewry: The Case of the Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary - Ira Robinson (Jewish Political Studies Review 11:1-2, Spring 1999)
• Judaism and Organized Jewish Movements in the USSR/CIS after World War II: The Ukrainian Case - Vladimir Khanin (Jewish Political Studies Review 11:1-2, Spring 1999)
• JL398: French Jewry Facing Haredization - Shmuel Trigano (January 15, 1999)
• JL390: The Jews of Moldova, 1998 - Betsy Gidwitz (September 15, 1998)
• VP384: A Partnership for Israel-Diaspora Relations - Daniel J. Elazar (June 15, 1998)
• JL383: Modern Orthodoxy in America: Possibilities for a Movement under Siege - William B. Helmreich and Reuel Shinnar (June 1, 1998)
• JL379: The Contest for the Jewish Future - Steven Windmueller (April 1, 1998)
• JL377: Switzerland and the Unfinished Business of World War II - Murray Gordon Silberman (March 1, 1998)
• JL376: The Haredization of American Orthodox Jewry - Chaim I. Waxman (February 15, 1998)
• VP400: Argentinean Jewry in Crisis: Pressures and Proposals - Ilan Rubin (February 15, 1998)
• JL374: How Israel Absorbed the Immigration Wave of the 1990s - Iris Geva-May (January 15, 1998)
• JL373: Religious Zionists in Jerusalem - Daniel J. Elazar (January 1, 1998)
• VP371: Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism: How to Square the Circle - Daniel J. Elazar (December 1, 1997)
• JL369: The WZO Elections - A New Beginning? - Daniel J. Elazar (November 2, 1997)
• JL364: Strengthening the Ties between the American Jewish Community and the States - Daniel J. Elazar (August 15, 1997)
• JL363: Reappraising JAFI's Missions in Israel - Gerald B. Bubis (August 1, 1997)
• JL358: The Jewish Community of Cracow - Sonia Misak (May 15, 1997)
• JL356: The Jewish Community of Vienna: Existing against all the Odds - Sonia Misak (April 15, 1997)
• VP351: Jewish Hungary Today - Geza Komoroczy (February 2, 1997)
• VP350: The Survival and Success of Jewish Institutions: Assessing Organizational and Management Patterns - Steven Windmueller (January 15, 1997)
• VP345: The Integration of Jewish Immigrants in Montreal: Models and Dilemmas of Ethnic Match - Morton Weinfeld (November 1, 1996)
• JL368: The German Jewish Community: Between Adjustment and Ambivalence - Alan Mittleman (October 15, 1996)
• JL341: Religion in Israel: A Consensus for Jewish Tradition - Daniel J. Elazar (September 1, 1996)
• VP340: Back to the Future: Jewish Awakening and Renewal - Gerald Bubis (August 15, 1996)
• VP339: Judaic Inreach: Enhancing Shabbat Observance in a Suburban Congregation - Morton Weinfeld (August 1, 1996)
• VP337: The Road to Decision-Making: An Analysis of Jewish Community Relations Public Policy - Steven Windmueller (July 1, 1996)
• JL361: The Canadian Jewish Community and the Politics of Quebec Independence - Jack Silverstone (July 1, 1996)
• VP336: Jewish Identity in Lithuania - Sidney Goldstein and Alice Goldstein (June 16, 1996)
• VP330: Ukrainian Jewry: Some Personal Observations - Moshe Tutnauer (March 1, 1996)
• VP328: Reinventing World Jewry - Part Two: Dividing and Sharing Tasks and Functions - Daniel J. Elazar (January 15, 1996)
• VP327: Reinventing World Jewry - Part One: Fundamentals, Tasks and Functions - Daniel J. Elazar (January 1, 1996)
• JL318: The Law of Return Reconsidered," David Clayman (July 16, 1995)
• JL278: The New Geo-Demographics of American Jewry - Daniel J. Elazar (July 15, 1993)
• VP113: A Meeting of Ancient Peoples: Western Jews and the Dalai Lama of Tibet - Nathan Katz (March 1, 1991)
• JL101: The Last Jews in India and Burma - Nathan Katz and Ellen S. Goldberg (April 15, 1988)

• Gabriel A. Sivan on Rabbi Levy's Journey "From One End of the Earth to the Other": The London Bet Din, 1805-1855, and the Jewish Convicts Transported to Australia (Jewish Political Studies Review 22:1-2, Spring 2010)
• Sarah Schmidt on Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class (Jewish Political Studies Review 22:1-2, Spring 2010)
• Laurence Weinbaum on Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (Jewish Political Studies Review 22:1-2, Spring 2010)
• Manfred Gerstenfeld on The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion by Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra (Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2, Spring 2009)
• Michelle Mazel on Histoire des Americains juifs by Francoise S. Ouzan (Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2, Spring 2009)
• Manfred Gerstenfeld on Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity by Leonard Saxe and Barry Chazan (Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2, Spring 2009)
• Asaf Romirowsky on The Chosen: The History of an Idea, and the Anatomy of an Obsession by Avi Beker (Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2, Spring 2009)
• Michelle Mazel on Le Juif Errant est arrivé by Albert Londres (Jewish Political Studies Review 20:1-2, Spring 2008)
• Laurence Weinbaum on Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present by Joanna Beata Michlic (Jewish Political Studies Review 20:1-2, Spring 2008)
• Sarah Schmidt on On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend by Timothy P. Weber (Jewish Political Studies Review 19:1-2, Spring 2007)
• Chaim I. Waxman on The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity by Eric L. Goldstein (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:3-4, Fall 2006)
• Sarah Schmidt on The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment by Fred. A. Lazin (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:3-4, Fall 2006)
• Rivkah Duker Fishman on The Man of Vision: The Ultra-Orthodox Ideology of Rabbi Shach by Avishay Ben Haim (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:3-4, Fall 2006)
• Manfred Gerstenfeld on Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany 1945-1953 by Jay Howard Geller (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:1-2, Spring 2006)
• David R. Parsons on The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South by Eli N. Evans (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:1-2, Spring 2006)
• Stephen G. Donshik on American Jewry's Challenge: Conversations Confronting the Twenty-First Century by Manfred Gerstenfeld (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:1-2, Spring 2006)
• Sarah Schmidt on Jews and Australian Politics, edited by Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Philip Mendes (Jewish Political Studies Review 18:1-2, Spring 2006)
• Shalom Freedman on Double of Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage by Sylvia Barack Fishman (Jewish Political Studies Review 17:3-4, Fall 2005)