

The Jewish American Paradox
Embracing Choice in a Changing World
Author: Robert H. Mnookin
Narrator: David Cochran Heath
Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 06/28/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Social Science, Jewish Studies
Synopsis
Can the American Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity in light of these challenges? Who should count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship of American Jews to Israel?
In this thoughtful and perceptive book, Robert H. Mnookin argues that the answers of the past no longer serve American Jews today. The book boldly promotes a radically inclusive American-Jewish community—one where being Jewish can depend on personal choice and public self-identification, not simply birth or formal religious conversion. Instead of preventing intermarriage or ostracizing those critical of Israel, he envisions a community that embraces diversity and debate, and in so doing, preserves and strengthens the Jewish identity into the next generation and beyond.