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Assimilation

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Italian colosseum. Credit: Carla Bron/Pixabay.
When in Rome …
Do as the Jews do!
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Jan. 15, 2025
Sylvan Adams lights a torch during the rehearsal for the Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, April 23, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Canadian Israeli lighting Independence Day torch bemoans growing assimilation in Diaspora
“We need more Birthrights,” insists philanthropist Sylvan Adams.
Etgar Lefkovits
April 25, 2023
"Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur," painting by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
The real woke Jews
If you are fixated on the identity politics of others, and wonder whether Jews should be represented on the continuum, then Yiddish is the place to start.
Thane Rosenbaum
Dec. 27, 2022
Theodor Herzl, 1897. Credit: Public Domain Photo.
Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake
Herzl would recognize all too well the tragic fantasy of assimilation.
Melanie Phillips
Dec. 1, 2022
A scene from the play "Leopoldstadt," which opens in 1899 at a family Christmas party, where one of the children places a large Star of David atop the tree. Credit: "Leopoldstadt."
Mourning a failed escape from history for assimilated Jews
Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” is a brilliant depiction of a Viennese family lost to the Holocaust and a personal reckoning for an author trying to live without links to the past.
Jonathan S. Tobin
Oct. 3, 2022
The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto. Credit: Courtesy of CIP/CJP.
To save the American Jewish community, we must build personal relationships
We are losing our fellow Jews every day to assimilation and intermarriage, but we can change this by reaching out to others in order to bring them back to Judaism.
Farley Weiss
June 19, 2022
Winged Star of David graffiti in Jerusalem, May 5, 2009. Credit: zeevveez/Wikimedia Commons.
The Jewish commitment in a POC-majority America
As American Jews become the object of envy by much more diverse forces, while remaining the targets of white supremacists, the respectable choice—if not the only logical one—is to look within and outwardly embrace our Jewishness.
Justin Feldman
Feb. 22, 2022
Wedding rings. Credit: Jeff Belmonte from Cuiabá, Brazil on Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.
Assimilation is killing the Jewish people
The Reform movement has failed miserably. It is up to the Orthodox to do a much better job.
Joseph Frager
Dec. 5, 2021
Chanukah menorah. Credit: Pixabay.
The Hanukkah story that Jews need to learn
Pressure to stamp out “hard-line Judaism” came from the Hellenists—the assimilated Jews. They resented the fact that their lives were made more difficult by a minority of their own people who refused to “give up their old ways.”
Nov. 7, 2021