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Lou, in past generations, Jewish atheists would have celebrated that news by eating their porkchops on Yom Kippur. I am not sure how much of that article is really news. Sociological studies of the American Jewish community have shown Jews to be among the most secularized ethnic groups in the US. As the article noted, secular political ideologies like liberalism and Zionism, long ago, began to fill the void by the weakening of religious faith. And of course as Zionism loses favor among younger Jews, attempts by Jewish communal leaders to use support for Israel as a means for strengthening Jewish identity will likely go nowhere. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]> Subject: [Marxism] Decline of organized Judaism Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:28:29 -0400 (I'll celebrate this news tonight with some porkchops.) Jewish Review of books Prospects for American Judaism by LANCE J. SUSSMAN Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal by Dana Evan Kaplan Columbia University Press, 446 pp., $34.50 ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 2000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4bbce2e06d54c1396b6st04vuc ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
