The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World Audiobook (Free)

The situation of American Jews today is deeply paradoxical. Jews have achieved unprecedented integration, impact, and esteem in virtually every element of American lifestyle. But this extraordinarily different community today also encounters four critical and frequently divisive issues: rampant intermarriage, poor religious observance, reduced cohesion when confronted with waning anti-Semitism, and deeply conflicting sights about Israel.

Can the American Jewish community collectively maintain and spread to the about The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice within a Changing World next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity in light of these challenges? Who should count number as Jewish in America? What should be the romantic relationship of American Jews to Israel?

In this thoughtful and perceptive reserve, Robert H. Mnookin argues the answers of days gone by no longer serve American Jews today. The publication boldly promotes a radically inclusive American-Jewish community-one where becoming Jewish depends on personal choice and open public self-identification, not simply birth or formal religious conversion. Instead of preventing intermarriage or ostracizing those vital of Israel, he envisions a community that embraces variety and argument, and in so doing, preserves and strengthens the Jewish identity into the following generation and beyond.