American Jewish Year Book 2014 The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities

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It is examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic resources as well as Jewish honorees, obituaries and major recent events. It should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers and the press, among others. Part I Forum on the Pew Survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans 1 Are You “Pewish”? Multiple Assessments of the Landmark Pew Survey Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin 2 Executive Summary Pew Research Center 3 Rhetoric About the Diverse Jewish Community Sarah Bunin Benor 4 The Shrinking Jewish Middle Steven M. Cohen 5 End of Jewish/Non-Jewish Dichotomy? Evidence from the 2013 Pew Survey Sergio DellaPergola 6 The 2013 Pew Report Through a Gender Lens Harriet Hartman 7 The Americanness of American Jews Samuel Heilman 8 Assimilation Anxieties and the Case of American Jews Bethamie Horowitz 9 A Policy of Surveys Ari Y. Kelman 10 It’s the Best of Times: It’s the Worst of Times Barry A. Kosmin 11 Jews Who Count: Putting Pew in Historical Perspective Deborah Dash Moore 12 Pew’s Portrait of American Jewry: A Reassessment of the Assimilation Narrative Leonard Saxe , Theodore Sasson , and Janet Krasner Aronson 13 Response: Pew Research Center Alan Cooperman and Gregory A. Smith Part II Review Articles 14 Gender in American Jewish Life Sylvia Barack Fishman 15 National Affairs: January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 Ethan Felson 16 Jewish Communal Affairs: April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 Lawrence Grossman 17 Jewish Population in the United States, 2014 Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky 18 The Demography of Canadian Jewry, the “Census” of 2011: Challenges and Results Morton Weinfeld and Randal F. Schnoor 19 World Jewish Population, 2014 Sergio DellaPergola Part III Jewish Lists 20 Jewish Institutions: Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Social Service Agencies, National Jewish Organizations, Synagogues, College Hillels, Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Overnight Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, Memorials and Monuments Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky 21 Jewish Press: National Jewish Periodicals, Broadcast Media, Local Jewish Periodicals Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky 22 Academic Resources: Jewish Studies Programs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs, Jewish Social Work Programs, Major Books, Scholarly Articles, Websites and Jewish Organizations, Judaic and Holocaust Research Libraries Arnold Dashefsky , Ira Sheskin , and Pamela J. Weathers 23 Transitions: Major Events, Persons Honored, Obituaries Ira Sheskin , Arnold Dashefsky , and Pamela J. Weathers