In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of
waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a …

This report examines the impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel on its alumni five to nine years after
their visits to Israel. The data are derived from the second year of a longitudinal study of …

The focus on Jewish continuity has shifted in the last two decades, from concern with anti-
semitism to anxiety over the threat of assimilation and, in particular, intermarriage. Scholars …

Abstract The Pew Research Center's 2020 survey of American Jews is a valuable resource
to scholars of American Jewry, enabling interrogation of questions using data that no other …

More than 300,000 diaspora Jewish young adults and tens of thousands of their Israeli
peers have participated in structured, cross-cultural encounters—mifgashim—in the context …

Executive summary Twenty thousand young Jews from the United States traveled to Israel
on Birthright trips during summer 2022. The easing of testing and social distancing …

The engagement of Jewish young adults with their heritage and communal institutions has
been an ongoing concern of the Jewish community. In North America, a host of initiatives …

What are North American Jewish day schools doing when they engage in Israel education,
what shapes their practices, and to what ends? In this article, we report on a multi-method …

Executive Summary Contemporary North American Jewish young adults live in a society
where Jews have achieved unprecedented social, educational, and economic success …

After the cancellation of trips to Israel in summer 2020 and winter of 2020-21, the availability
of vaccines and the easing of travel restrictions meant that Birthright Israel was in a position …