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January: Best of the Press December-27-2007
NEWSWORLD: What are the most important issues for American Jews in the coming election?
  Hillary has a 70% favorable rating among Jewish Democrats, Rudy leads Republicans with 75 %, according to the American Jewish Committee’s 2007 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion. What issues most concern American Jews? The economy, jobs, health care, the War in Iraq, terrorism and national security, education, immigration, the energy crisis. The whole survey is on the website of the American Jewish Committee
(SOCIAL)SCIENCEWORLD: Big Surprises in a Study of How interfaith Families Raise Their Kids
A new overview in the 2007 American Jewish Yearbook compares the rates at which intermarried couples in different cities raise Jewish children. An earlier study found that 60% of the children of intermarriages in the greater Boston area were being raised as Jews. This finding is at at the high end of an enormous range amongst Jewish communities nationally, one that peaks at 75% in South Palm Beach, Florida but in an adjacent county numbers only 18%.
These stats undermine conventional wisdom that intermarriage ipso facto erodes Jewish identity. But the seeming arbitrariness of which communities have high rates and which have low rates raises the intriguing question of why some intermarried couples and their families remain engaged with Judaism while others do not. Read more in the Jewish Daily Forward.
CULTUREWORLD: Jews Who Abuse: Dating Violence on Campus
Dating violence is more prevalent on college campuses than many people think,” says Rella Kaplowitz, a program specialist at Jewish Women International (JWI). “And it doesn’t just refer to physical abuse.” Sexual, verbal, and emotional abuse can be equally damaging. Disturbingly, 1 in 5 college students admits being abused by a current partner. JWI offers programming tailored for Jewish teens and young adults entitled “When Push Comes to Shove…It’s No Longer Love. Read more on Hillel's website.
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Yiddish campaign buttons for all major candidates available on eBay. Thanks again to Esther Kustanowitz for pointing these out (actually, it was her dad) and for helping all of us to be savvier users of technology. Catch her blog My Urban Kvetch.
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