American Jewish Year Book Volume 115 Series Editors Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Ira M. Sheskin, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA Produced under the Academic Auspices of: The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut and The Jewish Demography Project at The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami
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Arnold Dashefsky Ira Sheskin Editors American Jewish Year Book 2015 The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities
Editors Arnold Dashefsky University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA Ira Sheskin University of Miami Coral Gables, FL, USA ISSN 2213-9575 ISSN 2213-9583 (electronic) American Jewish Year Book ISBN 978-3-319-24503-4 ISBN 978-3-319-24505-8 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24505-8 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media ( www. springer.com )
The Publication of This Volume Was Mad e Possible by the Generous Support of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut ( Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum ) Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut ( Jeffrey Shoulson, Director ) The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies ( Haim Shaked, Director ) and its Jewish Demography Project ( Ira Sheskin, Director ); and The George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies ( Haim Shaked, Director ) College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami ( Dean Leonidas Bachas and Senior Associate Dean Angel Kaifer ) Mandell L. Bill Berman and the Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundation The Department of Geography at the University of Miami ( Ira Sheskin, Chair ) We Acknowledge the Cooperation of: Berman Jewish DataBank, a project of The Jewish Federations of North America ( Mandell L. Berman, Founding Chair; Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Director ). The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry ( Steven M. Cohen, President ) We Acknowledge the Contributions of the Men and Women Who Edited the American Jewish Year Book from 1899 to 2008 Cyrus Adler, Maurice Basseches, Herman Bernstein, Morris Fine, Herbert Friedenwald, H. G. Friedman, Lawrence Grossman, Milton Himmelfarb, Joseph Jacobs, Martha Jelenko, Julius B. Maller, Samson D. Oppenheim, Harry Schneiderman, Ruth R. Seldin, David Singer, Jacob Sloan, Maurice Spector, Henrietta Szold v
vi The Publication of This Volume Was Made Possible by the Generous Support of Academic Advisory Committee Sidney and Alice Goldstein, Honorary Chairs Carmel Chiswick, Research Professor of Economics at George Washington University and Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive. Recipient of the 2010 Marshall Sklare Award. President of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ). Miriam Sanua Dalin, Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department, Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life, and Co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University. Recipient of the 2014 Marshall Sklare Award. Calvin Goldscheider, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies, and Faculty Associate of the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. Recipient of the 2001 Marshall Sklare Award. Alice Goldstein, Research Associate Emerita, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University. Sidney Goldstein, G. H. Crooker University Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brown University. Recipient of the 1992 Marshall Sklare Award. Harriet Hartman, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Rowan University and Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Jewry. Samuel Heilman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. Recipient of the 2003 Marshall Sklare Award. Former Editor of Contemporary Jewry. Debra Kaufman, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University. Shaul Kelner, Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies and former Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. Barry Kosmin, Research Professor of Public Policy & Law and Director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Senior Associate, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, England. Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Senior Director of Research and Analysis and Director of the Berman Jewish DataBank at The Jewish Federations of North America. Deborah Dash Moore, Professor of History and former Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Recipient of the 2006 Marshall Sklare Award.
The Publication of This Volume Was Made Possible by the Generous Support of vii Pamela S. Nadell, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women s and Gender History, and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University. Bruce Phillips, Professor of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Riv-Ellen Prell, Professor of American Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. Chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. Recipient of the 2011 Marshall Sklare Award. Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History. Recipient of the 2002 Marshall Sklare Award. President of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Leonard Saxe, Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and Director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies/ Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis. Recipient of the 2012 Marshall Sklare Award. Morton Weinfeld, Professor of Sociology and Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies at McGill University. Recipient of the 2013 Marshall Sklare Award.
Preface In the editorial preface to Volume 113 of the Year Book, we cited the work of Jonathan Sarna and Jonathan Golden (2000) who wrote the following in their outstanding review of a century of the American Jewish Year Book (1899 1999): Whatever its imperfections, though, the Year Book has consistently served as an invaluable guide to Jewish life, and especially American Jewish life, in the 20th century. Its wideranging coverage, its emphases, its reliability, and its dependable quality make the Year Book an unparalleled resource for those who seek to study the history of American Jewry and for those who seek to shape its future. Now, as of June 2015, we have quantitative evidence of this assertion: According to Google, more than 115,000 citations of the Year Book (including 6700 in scientific publications) have been documented since 1970 across its 114 volumes to date! 1 Furthermore, our publisher, Springer, reports that more than 2800 chapter downloads from the Springer website of the first volume (2012) and over 2600 chapter downloads of the second volume (2013), edited under our joint auspices, have accrued over the approximately 30 months and 18 months since the publication of each volume. The dependable quality noted above by Sarna and Golden can be seen in the chapters assembled for the current volume. In Part I, Steven J. Gold (Michigan State University) has authored a thorough review, utilizing the available quantitative and qualitative data, on recent Jewish migrants to the USA, including Russian, Israeli, Cuban, and Latin American Jews, as well as brief accounts (given the lack of data) 1 Wikipedia provides the following review of the publication history of the Year Book : The American Jewish Year Book (AJYB) has been published since 1899. Publication was initiated by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS). In 1908, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) assumed responsibility for compilation and editing while JPS remained the publisher. From 1950 through 1993 the two organizations were co-publishers, and from 1994 to 2008 AJC became the sole publisher. From 2012 to present, Springer has published the Year Book as an academic publication. The book is published in cooperation with the Berman Jewish DataBank and the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. ix
x Preface on Syrian, Iranian, South African, and Ethiopian Jews. Annette Koren, Leonard Saxe, and Eric Fleisch (Brandeis University) have produced a timely review of the contemporary campus experience of American Jewish college students, covering the topics of Israel, anti-semitism, religious and spiritual life, academic and intellectual life, social and cultural life, as well as community service. In addition, the usual regular features appear in the current volume with some changes. This year, Mark Silk (Trinity College) joins Ethan Felson (JCPA) to provide an excellent review of national affairs as they affected American Jewry over the past year, while Lawrence Grossman (AJC) has provided the same masterful coverage of Jewish communal affairs. The population chapters on US Jews by Ira M. Sheskin (University of Miami) and Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut), as well as Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University) on world Jewry, provide comprehensive, updated statistics on demographic changes. These two chapters are complemented by what we hope will be a regular feature on the Canadian Jewish population by Charles Shahar (The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal). Following the reorganization last year, Part II consists of four chapters covering Jewish institutions, the Jewish press, academic resources, and transitions, which reports on major events, honorees, and obituaries. The provision of a variety of Jewish lists harkens back to the earliest volume of the Year Book. Each year the lists in Part II are checked to make certain that all contact information is current. In addition, this year we added more than 25 Jewish organizations and Jewish publications to these lists that were either new or ones of which we were unaware in the past. A new list of Israeli consulates in the USA appears this year as well. While much of the information in Part II is available on the Internet (indeed we obtain most of it from the Internet), we believe that collating this information in one volume helps to present a full picture of the state of North American Jewry today. Part of this picture is its demographics; part is the extensive infrastructure of the Jewish community (the organizations and the publications), and part is the enormous contributions made by the less than 2 % of the population that is Jewish to the culture and society of the USA and Canada. In addition, while, for example, a list of Jewish Federations will probably always appear on the Internet, a list current as of 2015 will not be there forever. A historian in the year 2525, wishing to examine the history of American Jewry, will have that history preserved in one volume. Indeed, preserving that history is part of the raison d etre of the Year Book. We hope that the initiatives that we have undertaken over the past 4 years of our editorship since 2012 will uphold the traditional quality of the Year Book, whose existence spans three different centuries.
Preface xi Hopefully as well, reviewers in 2099 will be as praiseworthy as Sarna and Golden were in 1999! Storrs, CT, USA Coral Gables, FL, USA Arnold Dashefsky Ira Sheskin Reference Sarna, J.D., and J.J. Golden. 2000. The twentieth century through American Jewish eyes: A history of the American Jewish Year Book, 1899 1999. American Jewish Year Book 100: 3 102.
Acknowledgments Since we began our term in 2012, our efforts as editors were motivated by the need to restore the American Jewish Year Book, which had ceased publication in 2008. As social scientists, we had turned many times to consult previous issues for relevant population statistics, timely review articles, and useful organizational lists. For example, we noted that the population of our home states has grown dramatically since the first Year Book appeared in 1899: Connecticut has increased from 3000 to about 118,000 in 2015, and Florida has mushroomed from 2500 to more than 650,000 today. Having access to such information is valuable for scholars and practitioners now, but we are mindful that these volumes which we assemble will prove invaluable resources for documenting North American Jewish life for future generations or centuries! Thus, we are grateful to our publisher Springer for their support over the past 3 years of our editorship (2012 2014) and for renewing our contract for three more years (2015 2017). Therefore, we wish first to express our thanks to our editors Cristina Alves dos Santos, Anita van der Linden-Rachmat, Elvire Verbraak, Deepthi Vasudevan, S. Madhuriba, and their associates at Springer who have shared our enthusiasm for the publication of the Year Book once again. We would also like to express our sincere appreciation to Larry Grossman, the former editor of the American Jewish Year Book, for his encouragement and support of our initiative and for the continuation of his review of communal affairs in the American Jewish community. Our gratitude is extended to the other authors, including Ethan Felson and Mark Silk for their chapter on US national affairs as well as Sergio DellaPergola on world Jewish population. Special thanks are extended to Steven Gold for his chapter on recent Jewish migrants to the USA and to Annette Koren, Len Saxe, and Eric Fleisch for their chapter on US Jewish campus life. In addition, we are also very appreciative of the contribution of Charles Shahar for his new chapter on the Jewish population of Canada. We expect this chapter to continue in the future so as to more accurately represent our efforts to provide the annual record of the North American Jewish communities. We would also like to express our appreciation to the several reviewers who provided helpful advice on the xiii
xiv Acknowledgments chapters in Part I, including Mitchell Bard, Joshua Comenetz, J. J. Goldberg, Uzi Rebhun, Chaim Waxman, and Morton Weinfeld. For Part II, we wish to thank Ami Eden and the JTA staff ( www.jta.org ) for their assistance with the obituaries and events sections. No edited work with the variety of features contained herein can be completed successfully without the help of our outstanding support staff. We offer our heartfelt thanks to Rae Asselin, program assistant, and Pamela J. Weathers, editorial assistant, both at the University of Connecticut s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, for their excellent assistance. Rae maintained the flow of correspondence and communication with authors and reviewers, and Pam provided research and editorial support. We also want to acknowledge the generous support that we have received from Jeremy Teitelbaum, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Jeffrey Shoulson, director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, both at the University of Connecticut, to facilitate the editorial work involved in producing this volume. Finally, we express our appreciation to Bill Berman, the founding philanthropist of the Berman Jewish DataBank and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive, for his generous financial support of the Year Book. At the University of Miami, acknowledgments are due to Sarah Markowitz, Roberta Pakowitz, and Karen Tina Sheskin for their assistance with the production of the lists and other material in Part II of this volume. Chris Hanson and the University of Miami Department of Geography and Regional Studies Geographic Information Systems Laboratory assisted with the production of the maps. Robert Edwards of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and Xiaxia Yang of the Department of Geography assisted with the verification of much of the material in Part II. We wish to acknowledge the generous support we have received from Deans Leonidas Bachas and Angel Kaifer of the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences and from Haim Shaked, director of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies.
Contents Part I Review Articles 1 Patterns of Adaptation Among Contemporary Jewish Immigrants to the US... 3 Steven J. Gold 2 Jewish Life on Campus: From Backwater to Battleground... 45 Annette Koren, Leonard Saxe, and Eric Fleisch 3 National Affairs... 89 Ethan Felson and Mark Silk 4 Jewish Communal Affairs: April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015... 107 Lawrence Grossman 5 Jewish Population in the United States, 2015... 163 Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky 6 Jewish Population of Canada, 2015... 261 Charles Shahar 7 World Jewish Population, 2015... 273 Sergio DellaPergola Part II Jewish Lists 8 Jewish Institutions... 367 Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky 9 Jewish Press... 725 Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky xv
xvi Contents 10 Academic Resources... 751 Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin, and Pamela J. Weathers 11 Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries... 835 Ira Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Pamela J. Weathers
Contributors Arnold Dashefsky Department of Sociology and Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Sergio DellaPergola The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Ethan Felson Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), New York, NY, USA Eric Fleisch Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA Steven J. Gold Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Lawrence Grossman American Jewish Committee, New York, NY, USA Annette Koren Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Leonard Saxe Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies/Steinhardt Social Research Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Charles Shahar The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal, Montreal, Canada Ira Sheskin Department of Geography and Jewish Demography Project, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA Mark Silk Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA Pamela J. Weathers Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA xvii