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	"Religion and the Public Square: Attitudes of American Jews in Comparative Perspective - Part One" by Steven M. Cohen
		Jews, in particular, were concerned that the schools not be used to indoctrinate their children in the culture and tenets of Christianity, or that their children be made to feel unwelcome or unequal in a predominantly Christian environment.
		Second, Jews' support for separationism is also connected with their liberal worldview and identification with the liberal camp, a segment of the American political spectrum highly supportive of separationism.
		Jews in the United States have been liberal in part because of their minority status concerns and because of the friendliness of Democrats and liberals to Jews and Jewish inclusion.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/jl434.htm (4247 words)

	A Portrait of American Jews
		Jews are more likely than members of any other American ethnic group to purchase a hardcover book or attend a live musical performance in the coming year, but they're much less likely to buy a car, truck, recreational vehicle or major home appliance.
		Jews are overwhelmingly pro-choice, with 61 percent saying the decision should always be left to the mother.
		Jews are also the most supportive of letting the federal government set education policy, the most supportive of campaign donation limits and the least supportive of increasing the military budget.
	www.jewishjournal.com /old/stats.5.5.0.htm (1431 words)

	Difference between Judaism and Zionism
		Jews believe that Adam was created in G-d's image and that he is the common ancestor of all mankind.
		To the Jew, the very soil of the Holy Land is different from that of any other spot on this globe, and wherever he is he turns his face toward Jerusalem during prayers.
		According to Jewish law, however, a Jew owes allegiance and loyalty to the country of which he is a citizen, and, of course, no faithful Jews owes any loyalty or allegiance to the Zionist state which has been condemned by the foremost rabbis of our age.
	www.jewsnotzionists.org /differencejudzion.html (3777 words)

	American Jewish Committee - Jewish Living Publications - A Primer on the American Jewish Community
		Though Jews constitute only 2 percent of the population, there are two Jews on the Supreme Court and eleven in the Senate, and Jews serve as secretary of the treasury, secretary of agriculture, chairman of the Federal Reserve, assistant to the president for national security affairs, undersecretary of state, U.S. trade representative, and budget director.
		American Jews continue to view antisemitism as a serious problem in the United States, notwithstanding data that document the steady, long-term diminution of both behavioral and attitudinal antisemitism.
		While this "perception gap" among American Jews may be explained by wariness rooted in Jewish history, especially the recent experience of the Holocaust, the reality of the Jewish condition in post-World War II America is that of a steady and dramatic decline in antisemitism.
	www.ajc.org /site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=843137&ct=1044883 (10918 words)

	Crisis for American Jews (by Edward Said) - Media Monitors Network
		The moral of this incident is that public American Jewish support for Israel today simply does not tolerate any allowance for the existence of an actual Palestinian people, except in the context of terrorism, violence, evil and fanaticism.
		It simply does not occur to most American supporters of Israel to see Israel as the actual author of specific actions done in the name of the Jewish people by the Jewish state, and to connect in consequence those actions to Palestinian feelings of anger and revenge.
		Whereas American Jews want to be recognised as Jews and Americans in America, they are unwilling to accord a similar status as Arabs and Palestinians to another people that has been oppressed by Israel since the beginning.
	www.mediamonitors.net /edward52.html (1011 words)

	UJC - Myth and Fact: Did American Jews Goad the U.S. to Go to War Against Iraq?
		Some opponents of the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003 claimed that American Jews somehow were responsible for persuading President George W. Bush to launch the military campaign on Israel’s behalf.
		As for the role of American Jews, it is important to remember that Jews comprise less than three percent of the U.S. population and were hardly the most vocal advocates of the war.
		The suggestion that American Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the United States, or that they have undue influence on U.S. Middle East policy, is an example of anti-Semitism.
	www.uja.com /content_display.html?ArticleID=184509 (492 words)

	American Jews
		Jews constitute 5.7% of the population of New Jersey, 4.9% of the people of the District of Columbia, 4.2% of Floridians, 4.4% of Massachusetts citizens, 4.1% of the people of Maryland, 3.1% in Connecticut and 2.9% in California.
		Paul Wellstone of Minnesota is one of 42,000 Jews in a state with a population of 4,776,000 so that Jews are only 0.9% of Minnesotans and finally Ron Wyden, the Jewish senator from Oregon, represents 3,316,000 Oregonians of whom 0.9% or 30,500 are Jews.
		Among the 10% of Jews who live a Torah-true life and who are called “orthodox” (Greek for straight belief) a great deal of money is spent on Jewish education despite the lesser average income of orthodox Jews as compared to all Jewish income.
	www.jbuff.com /c052302.htm (1208 words)

	CNN - Israeli politics closely watched by American Jews - May 27, 1996
		NEW YORK (CNN) -- American Jews can't vote in Israel's elections on Wednesday, but many are deeply interested in the campaign.
		Some American activists are raising money for so-called education committees in Israel, in an attempt to sway voters toward one candidate or the other.
		Americans are particularly interested in the future of the Middle East peace process through which Israel is trying to defuse tensions with Palestinians and neighboring Arab states.
	www.cnn.com /US/9605/27/american.jews (461 words)

	Judaism 101: What Is Judaism?
		Those secular American Jews would probably be surprised to learn that much of what they think of as Jewish culture is really just Ashkenazic Jewish culture, the culture of Jews whose ancestors come from one part of the world.
		The traditional explanation, and the one given in the Torah, is that the Jews are a nation.
		Because of this notion of "nationhood," Jews are often falsely accused of being disloyal to their own country in favor of their loyalty to the Jewish "nation," of being more loyal to Israel than to their home country.
	www.jewfaq.org /judaism.htm (1411 words)

	American Jews
		Jews constitute 5.7% of the population of New Jersey, 4.9% of the people of the District of Columbia, 4.2% of Floridians, 4.4% of Massachusetts citizens, 4.1% of the people of Maryland, 3.1% in Connecticut and 2.9% in California.
		Paul Wellstone of Minnesota is one of 42,000 Jews in a state with a population of 4,776,000 so that Jews are only 0.9% of Minnesotans and finally Ron Wyden, the Jewish senator from Oregon, represents 3,316,000 Oregonians of whom 0.9% or 30,500 are Jews.
		Among the 10% of Jews who live a Torah-true life and who are called “orthodox” (Greek for straight belief) a great deal of money is spent on Jewish education despite the lesser average income of orthodox Jews as compared to all Jewish income.
	jbuff.com /c052302.htm (1208 words)

	American Jews: Why Are You Still Liberal? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Yet the pedestrian American Jew is still liplocked with liberals, attacking Bush for his boldness and standing in the way of success.
		Third, a lot of Jews live in the New York metro area (all of my relatives do, except for my sister and I), and the politics of the area are skewed toward the Democrats from a century of machine politics (Tammany Hall, for instance).
		Jews feel they can trust and cope with liberals who have no religion and believe in nothing strongly enough to kill for, but they distrust anyone whose religion could, and has in the past, threaten them.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1562473/posts (4058 words)

	Zionism & American Jews -- 1981
		Americans of Jewish faith cannot visualize the extent to which their rabbis and secular leadership, operating through Organized Jewry, have totally deceived them into confusing humanitarianism with nation-building, religion and nationalism.
		Speaking unqualifiedly in the name of all Jews, Zionist acumen made certain that the politicians remained hypnotized more than ever by the "Jewish vote." All they had to do was to remind both political parties that their eloquent support of Israel was a prerequisite for their conquest of pivotal election states.
		The individual Jew who might not go along with Zionist ideology or Jewish nationalism is too cowardly to speak out and take the usurpers of his voice to task; and so the peddling goes forward.
	www.alfredlilienthal.com /zionamer.htm (3322 words)

	To Those Who Think All Jews Are Pro-Israel & Zionists
		Zionist American Jews are the chauvinistic Jews who commonly believe in innate, irreducible differences from others and their own cultural-religious superiority to gentiles, or non-Jews.
		American Zionist Jews tend to think of Israel as their homeland, and to perceive America as the "cash cow" and military vessel for achieving Zionist hegemony as well as convenient place to live where they can enjoy prosperity, freedom and protection from the strife that occurs in Israel because of Zionism.
		Zionist Jews relentlessly seek to promote programs to educate Americans about their version of the Holocaust, which by the way, claimed many non-Jewish victims including the ones who gave their lives to end the war although this is not emphasized by Zionists.
	www.rense.com /general50/pro.htm (2884 words)

	The American Muslim (TAM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Farber sees his book and the voices of American Jewish critics he captures herein as what he calls an affirmation of the moral and spiritual tradition of Judaism, which, he argues, is threatened with extinction by Israeli and pro-Israeli American policies.
		Jews who uncritically support Israel, the majority among the American Jewry, they argue, are actually betraying their own religion by sanctioning oppression.
		He pleads with his fellow Jews to realise that Zionism is a horrible mistakeђ tantamount to ethnocracyђ and to acknowledge how stifling Zionism is to the notion of Judaismђ;.
	theamericanmuslim.org /tam.php/features/articles/book_review_radicals_rabbis_and_peacemakers_conversations_with_jewish_criti (1901 words)

	Is Israel Good for the Jews?
		American Jewish citizens can be sure that a large number of Jewish organizations will claim to speak in our name--without being asked to do so.
		With Jews prominent in business and finance, the arts and the professions, science and education, media and politics, it is now forgotten how much open anti-Semitism there was in the United States as recently as fifty years ago--at the top of society as well as in its dark crevices.
		Jews have been quite skillful at using their ascent from immigrant workers and peddlers to Wall Street executives and university presidents to achieve not only integration in the nation but a very large degree of cultural and political power.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060814/is_israel_good_for_the_jews (1271 words)

	Saving The Jews
		Over lunch, this Jewish American father explained to his Jewish American daughter that the United States was not even a belligerent in World War II until the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and that our armed forces and citizens, I believed, were woefully unprepared for war at that moment.
		Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust is an attempt to understand the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust from Franklin Roosevelt’s and America’s perspective, including that of America’s Jewish leadership.
		Jews were not allowed to immigrate to the United States after October 1940 because it would lead to a “renewal” of Jewry in the United States, which would allow American Jewry “to create a new platform from which it contemplates to continue its battle most forcibly against Germany.” Gilbert, Holocaust, 131.
	www.savingthejews.com /html/excerpts.htm (2571 words)

	American Muslims vs. American Jews - article by Daniel Pipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jews enter the picture, along with British and American "imperialists," as the perceived main obstacle to the fulfillment of this utopian vision.
		He accuses Jews of dominating American politics ("all Presidents since 1932 are controlled by the Jews") and the media ("any newspaper that refused to acquiesce to controlled news was brought to its knees by withdrawing advertising.
		American Jews are not the only objects of Islamist violence in the West: the same pattern can be seen in Europe and elsewhere.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/308 (3674 words)

	American Chronicle: Jews, Zionism and the European Right of Blood Part V
		A Jew who claims discrimination in hiring says that he was not hired, or that he was fired because of his "religion".
		Jews who were running from the Nazis because they (the Jews) " were 'not' Germans", became "Germans" once they entered the British Empire and they were subsequently arrested and interned.
		Americas and other immigrant societies could not take all the Jews in, so it seemed logical to these Jews that they needed to go back to where they originally came from, which, in their mind, was the place where they coalesced into the kingdoms of Judea and Israel.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=6020 (2303 words)

	American Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a result of persecution in parts of Eastern Europe, Jewish American immigration increased dramatically in the 1880s, with most of the new immigrants Yiddish speakers from the poor rural populations of Russia and Eastern Europe.
		Jews began taking a special interest in international affairs in the early 20th century, especially regarding pogroms in Imperial Russia, and restrictions on immigration in the 1920s.
		In the Boston area, 60% percent of children of intermarriages are being raised as Jews by religion; intermarriage is contributing to a net increase in the number of Jews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Jews (3389 words)

	American Jews' split personality - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The survey reported that 70 percent of American Jews oppose the U.S. involvement in Iraq, an opposition rate that is about 10 percent higher than among the general public.
		And, indeed, the Jewish media has expressed the sentiment that opposition among the majority of American Jews to the war in Iraq is detrimental to the effort to pressure the administration to display much greater firmness toward Iran.
		The American Jewish Committee's survey results indicate that the camps within the Jewish community are clearly divided according to religious streams, with the Orthodox on one side and Reform and Conservative Jews on the other.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=664556 (943 words)

	Amazon.com: Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Heilman discusses the postwar movement of Jews to the suburbs, the declines in Jewish birthrates, the rise in "outmarriage" and the "embarrassment and discomfort" of American Jews who felt "greater kinship to King Elvis than King David".
		He writes that the Jews' future is with those who return to Israel, "shining examples of what a Jew can be." To say the least, this is a stimulating and controversial work.
		It covers the assimilationist trends of the 1950's the counterculture of the 1960's and 1970's and the division of the the 1980's and 1990's into a small core of committed Jews and a large periphery of Jews who are proud of their Jewish culture but barely attached to it.
	www.amazon.com /Portrait-American-Jews-Twentieth-Lectures/dp/0295974710 (1408 words)

	American Orthodox Jews: Demographic Trends and Scenarios
		According to the 1990 NJPS, the distribution of American Jews aged 18 and over by denominations at birth was 23% Orthodox, 34% Conservative, 26% Reform, and 17% Other and non-denominational.
		Clearly, the Orthodox constitute a relatively small minority of American Jewry, but their visibility is greater as they carry responsibility for a disproportionate share of the services being provided to the Jewish community at large.
		Their share of American Jewry would only grow from 7% to 9% by the mid of the 21st century, and their share of Jewish children under 15 would reach 11% in 2020, and 13% in 2050.
	www.ou.org /publications/ja/5759fall/americanjews.htm (2557 words)

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