In a JTA Op-Ed announcing the publication of a report written with Steven M. Cohen, Ari Kelman opines:

…what we are seeing is not the loss of Jewish practice in North America. We are seeing young people who want to build something new that follows a different vision of what an institution can be and that will cater in a different way to the needs of American Jews for meaningful Jewish engagement.

The report, “THE CONTINUITY OF DISCONTINUITY - How Young Jews Are Connecting, Creating, and Organizing Their Own Jewish Lives,” was commissioned by the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. It examines the anti-institutional bent of young Jews who are building new models for Jewish engagement that blur the lines between the secular and the sacred, as well as between Jewish culture and pop culture.

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