Rabbi Steven Garten will review Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua Leifer
On Zoom. https://templeisraelottawa.zoom.us/j/84148690758
This book is a definitive look at the history and future of North American Jewish identity and community. Starting with a massive immigration from the Tzar's Russia and formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of Jewish self-definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated; soon there will be no living survivors. Against the backdrop of political crises, resurgent global antisemitism, and the horrors of the Israel/Hamas war in Gaza, the author provides an illuminating map of contemporary Jewish life and a sober conjecture of its future
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