The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape

Series Page, Title Page, Copyright

Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life Jonathan D. Sarna, Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor For a complete list of books that are available in the series, visit www.upne.com Jack Wertheimer, editor The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape Jonathan B. Krasner The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education Derek Rubin, editor Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging Susan G. Solomon Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue Amy Neustein, editor Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals Jack Wertheimer, editor Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twentyfirst Century Carole S. Kessner Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self Leonard Saxe and Barry Chazan Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity Jack Wertheimer, editor Imagining the American Jewish Community Murray Zimiles Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel Marianne R. Sanua Be of Good Courage: The American Jewish Committee, 1945–2006 Hollace Ava Weiner and Kenneth D. Roseman, editors Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas Jack Wertheimer, editor Jewish Education in an Age of Choice Edward S. Shapiro Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, editors Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History Kirsten Fermaglich American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965 Andrea Greenbaum, editor Jews of South Florida Sylvia Barack Fishman Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage George M. Goodwin and Ellen Smith, editors The Jews of Rhode Island Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, editors American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise Michael E. Staub, editor The Jewish 1960s: An American Sourcebook Judah M. Cohen Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Naomi W. Cohen The Americanization of Zionism, 1897–1948 Seth Farber An American Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston’s Maimonides School Ava F. Kahn and Marc Dollinger, editors California Jews The New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape Edited by Jack Wertheimer Brandeis University Press Waltham, Massachusetts Research for this project was conducted under the auspices of the AVI CHAI Foundation, which in North America seeks to nurture Jews who are Jewishly literate, view their lives through the lens of the Jewish religion and feel a deep connection to the world-wide Jewish people, with its center in Israel. Brandeis University Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com© 2011 Brandeis University All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Katherine B. Kimball Typeset in Sabon by Integrated Publishing Solutions University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne .com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The new Jewish leaders : reshaping the American Jewish landscape / edited by Jack Wertheimer. p. cm. — (Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-61168-183-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-1-61168-184-0 (ebook) 1. Jewish leadership—United States. 2. Jews—United States—Social conditions. 3. Young adults—United States—Attitudes. 4. Judaism—United States—History—21st century. 5. United States—Ethnic relations. I. Wertheimer, Jack. e184.36.s65n49 2011 305.892′4073—dc23 2011037158 5 4 3 2 1 ...