Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Jonathan Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 22 May 2013 18:02:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How Adam Sandler saved American Jewry http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-adam-sandler-saved-american-jewry/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-adam-sandler-saved-american-jewry/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:28:14 +0000 Jonathan Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=84790 The Last American Jew. It was an alarming image for a Jewish adolescent growing up in the United States. Yet, in the 1980s, it was a common theme of our temple youth group gatherings. Gen X Jewish teens were constantly reminded about demographic trends and intermarriage rates that suggested our community could soon splinter into [...]

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