Sunday, September 10, 2006

Recent Speech About Millenial Jews

The New Jersey Jewish News has an article about a recent speech about Millenial Jews, by Jonathan Woocher, a Maplewood resident and CEO of the Jewish Education Service of North America. According to the article, Woocher said:
We are going to have to accept, really accept, that the Jewish community of the 21st century is not going to look like the one created in the 20th century. We are going to have to separate Jewish community from its forms. That includes the institutions, infrastructures, and functions we are all involved in.
The rest of the article has a bunch more information about what Woocher said in his speech, as well as some of the organizations that are focusing on Millennial Jews and how best to interact with them.

Read the whole thing to get a good idea of how Judaism is changing, and just as importantly, how it's staying the same.

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