“My grown children are homeless,” says Dr. Ron Wolfson.

“Oh,” he adds, “they have apartments, but they are spiritually homeless…completely unconnected to a spiritual community even though they are day school graduates, summer campers who had trips to Israel, a warm Jewish family…and Daddy in ‘the business.’”

Professor Steven Cohen wrote a very intriguing article explaining what he's learning about my generation of Jews:  the 30-something post-Boomer up and coming leaders of the Jewish community.   What makes this generation so different from the one a

The Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner (www.BJPA.org) now has a collection of over 5,000 documents freely available online with more than 80 articles on synagogues.

In the last few weeks, they have added several “functionalities” – the ability for registered users to construct their own “bookshelves” (articles they select for their repeated reference) and “bibliographies” (formatted lists of references for use in preparing papers).

The Jewels of Elul is back with this year's theme,
The Art of Beginning...Again.Twenty Nine inspired contributors will share a personal story, about how deal with change. It will include pieces by Noah Alper founder of Noah’s Bagels, African-American Rabbi, actress Noa Tishby, Rabbi’s  David Wolpe and Rabbi Naomi Levy, Imam Jihad Turk, Jeremy Ben Ami, Eli Broad, a prisoner in a penitentiary, a Lost Boy of Sudan and medical student Nofrat Frenkel, arrested for wearing a Tallit at the wall.

Encouraged by the recent European “Call For Reason,” signed by more than 5200 Jewish citizens of European countries, we, American Jews passionately devoted to the safety and welfare of the State of Israel, now add our voices to those of our European kinsfolk. They recognize, as do we, that Israel faces existential threats, both from without and from within.