Approximately 60 academics, lay leaders and communal professionals gathered in New York for a symposium on “Critical Issues in American Jewish Life.” Repeated themes at the Sept. 25-26 gathering were American Jews’ sometimes untraditional quests for meaning in Judaism, declining feelings of ethnic connection and the lingering interest in Jewish cooking traditions.
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