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Youth in the Making of American Jewish History
May 11, 2026 By Sandra Fox
In the mid-twentieth century, the American Jewish communityemergedas what scholars have broadly labeled 鈥渃hild-centered,鈥� with rabbis, educators, and communal leaders focusing their concerns over the future of Judaism on children, teens, and young adults. In narratives of American Jewish history, however, the experiences of the young are typically overlooked, the focus placed instead on how their elders hoped to shape their identities and stem the tides of assimilation.
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Zakhor in a Fractured Age
Feb 27, 2026 By Sandra Fox | Commentary | Shabbat Zakhor | Tetzavveh
鈥淐ould you have chosen a more loaded week?鈥� said my husband with a face that can only be described as both bemused and pitying when I told him that I had agreed to write my first 91快活林 Torah Commentary on Shabbat Zakhor. As the heaviness of the reading sank in, with its commandment to recall Amalek鈥檚 unprovoked attack on the Israelites and to 鈥渂lot out鈥� Amalek鈥檚 memory, I became apprehensive.
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