The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape

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Index 21/64, 129, 299 30 Years After, 43n71, 119, 132, 153; 30yearsafter.org, 248–49 92nd Street Y, 275–76; 92Y, 237 Abraham, Pearl, Giving Up America, 201 Abraham Joshua Heschel School, 275 Abrahamson, Elka, 301–2 Adaptive Leadership model, 283–84 Adas Israel (Conservative; Washington, D.C.), 5 adult Jewish education, 5, 48 Adventure Rabbi Program, 180 affiliation, Jewish: baby boomers and, 1–2; new patterns of, vii, 37. See also identity, Jewish affinity groups, 2, 24–33. See also names of groups affluence: and commitment to social justice, 167; and Jewish liberalism, 77 age distribution: for establishment vs. nonestablishment leadership, 55–57, 57 (table 2.6), 58 (table 2.7), 79–80; of nonestablishment membership survey respondents, 87–88, 87 (table 3.1) Aharit HaYamim (band), 163 Aish HaTorah, 28, 153, 243 alcohol, role in social events, 7, 29 Aldrich, Howard, 147 Alexa.com, 223–24 alienation: and establishment/ nonestablishment leadership, 72, 73 (table 2.20); of young Jews from conventional synagogue life, viii Alperovich, Allie, 178 Alte kackers/Yinge pishers dichotomy, 305, 313, 320n57 Altman, Sean, 193 Altshul program, 5, 200 alumni, use of term, 306 alumni networks, 306 American Association for Jewish Education, 272 American Israel Public Affairs Committee, 10, 47, 119, 122, 151 American Jewish Committee, 7, 144, 151; AJC Access, 9–10, 87, 99–102 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 143; Next Generation and Service Initiatives division, 10–11; and Russian Jewish immigrants, 26–27 American Jewish World Service, 10, 70, 113, 122, 136 Americans for Peace Now, 121, 155n17, 172 American Zionist Movement, 10, 23 analytic strategies, 50–53, 86–88, 87 (table 3.1). See also research design; research methodology Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, 21–22, 64, 276, 284, 286–91, 300 anonymity, and blogging, 241 Ansche Chesed Project, 275 Anti-Defamation League, 122; and new social media, 12 anti-Israel divestment campaigns, 175 336 Index antisemitism, as cause for concern, 68–69, 69 (table 2.17), 105, 110 approaches to Jewish issues, younger Jewish leaders and, 135–41, 141 (table 4.1) Arizona Adventurers, 34 Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen, xii artists, younger Jewish, 159 arts, Jewish, 161, 191–201 assimilation, rejection of, 201. See also post-assimilation Association of Small Foundations, 300 Atlanta, 18; and AJC Access Program, 9; Chabad House, 29; Federation, 7; younger Jewish adult population, 11 attachment, sense of, and establishment/ nonestablishment leadership, 66–67, 67 (table 2.15) auxiliaries, gender-segregated, 43n68 Avedon, Joshua, 48, 122, 264, 278, 304 AVI CHAI, 204 Aviv, Caryn, 31 Avni, Ronit, 285 Avoda Arts, 198 AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, 18–19, 113, 207 baby boomers, 1–2 Bachman, Rabbi Andy, 5 Bahr, Iris, 189, 200; Dai, 185 Baltimore Jewish Times, 272–75 Bank Leumi, 280 Bar, Matt, 197, 199 barriers to involvement, 3–4 Bass, Avi, 175 BayJews, 246 Beatles, The, 194 Beeber, Steven Lee, 194 Beery, Ariel, 283, 302 Beggs, John, 146 Beinart, Peter, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” viii–ix Belafonte, Harry, 192 belonging, sense of, and establishment/ nonestablishment leadership, 66–67, 67 (table 2.15) Belzer, Tobin, 128 Bennett, Roger, 122, 287–91, 304 Berger, Peter, The Sacred Canopy, 180 Berkowitz, Brad, 186–87 Berlin, Irving, 192 Berrie Foundation, 282 Betar movement, 302 betweenness centrality, 230, 243; for blogs and websites, 244 (table 6.3); for Jewish websites, 230–34, 231 (table 6.1); in Los Angeles, 249, 249 (table 6.4) Bikel, Theodore, 192 Bikkurim, 283, 292, 307, 311 Billig, Michael, 194 birthrate, low Jewish, as perceived cause for concern, 67, 68 (table 2.16) Birthright Israel, 8, 65, 116, 286–87, 291; Birthrightisrael, 238 Birthright Israel Next, 129, 131, 151 Bisman, Aaron, 173, 196, 200, 203, 285 Blick, Beth, 300–301 blogging platforms, 240 blogging technology, 240 blogs: accounting for, 240–45; defining, 218–20; as nodes in network, 218; as venue for free expression, 241. See also online group blogs and magazines blogs, Jewish, 216, 224–25, 252; betweenness centrality, 244 (table 6.3); defined, 219–20; as “small world,” 225–27; survival rate of, 259n21 Bloom, Amy, Away, 163, 170–71 Blue Fringe (band), 193, 195, 197 B’nai Or Community, 274 body metaphor, for leadership development , 300–301 Bonacich centrality measure, 232; for Jewish websites, 233 (table 6.2); for Los Angeles, 250, 250 (table 6.5) Borowitz, Rabbi Eugene, 268 Boston, 35; and David Project, 20–21; Federation, 24; and GesherCity, 8–9; Index 337 and...