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The single most serious threat to Jewish continuity in America is not intermarriage but Jewish illiteracy, according to Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic and author of the recent, highly acclaimed book, “Kaddish.” Speaking to about 250 people Tuesday morning at Park Avenue Synagogue, at a breakfast forum sponsored by The Jewish Week […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315