Read our roundup of research in May about American Jews: the widening Israeli/American Jewish opinion gap, dropping antisemitic incidents, rising American religiosity, and new academic work on Jewish ed, Holocaust memory, and Hasidic teaching.
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Jewish camp is looking forward: Foundation for Jewish Camp releases its 2026–2030 Strategic Direction with sustainable business models & affordability at the center. strategy.jewishcamp.org
DOJ withheld $200M+ in Violence Against Women Act grants, stalling Jewish Women International's work training Jewish men on consent & domestic violence prevention.
JWI CEO: "I've been struggling to keep my staff employed."
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@phoebebovy.bsky.social in @thecjn.bsky.social: the post-Oct. 7 boom in Antisemitism Studies programs risks displacing Jewish Studies itself and reifying Jews as a hated group rather than a people.
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NCJW ejected its LA chapter, the largest in the network, as part of a restructuring that swaps local service work for centralized advocacy. Two others have disaffiliated, six are in mediation.
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Jewish camp is one of the most powerful forces shaping Jewish life today. FJC's Strategic Direction 2026–2030 charts a path to strengthen the field, expand opportunity, and ensure that more children, ...
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Jewish Women International has had to lay off staff after the Department of Justice bottlenecked grants to prevent violence against women
Local leaders seeking autonomy for social justice programs cut ties as parent group consolidates
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Hello and welcome to Documensch Research, your one-stop-shop for what’s new in Jewish research. May was another big month. Our community research roundup includes a new poll on the widening gap betwee...
Some Canadian Jews voted Conservative for the first time in 2025. They were driven by antisemitism concerns, not ideology. Robert Brym in Contemporary Jewry examines what it means for diaspora Jewish politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New Jewish Voters Resource Center poll (GBAO): 24% of American Jewish voters back a binational state in Israel-Palestine. Per @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social reporting, 51% of non-Orthodox Jews under 35 do. Only 1% of Israeli Jews support same w/ equal rights.
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Meanwhile, NY brothers Michael & David Shabsels, owners of Camp Blue Star, Mohawk & ~30 other camps, defaulted after allegedly transferring $34M to companies they control. Bonds downgraded to junk. therealdeal.com/new-york/202...
As America turns 250, the Pardes Institute's Talmud of America applies beit midrash technique to the Declaration of Independence through argumentation and intertextual analysis. www.jta.org/2026/06/07/i...
Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor's new memoir Something We Said traces the n-word's American history & her own story as Richard Pryor's Black-Jewish daughter.
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The new data reflects generational shift and growing gulf between American and Israeli Jews
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This paper argues that left–right polarization has taken place in the Canadian party system since the 1960s and in the Canadian Jewish electorate since the 1970s. The ideological difference between th...
Dozens of other summer camps owned by the Shabsels brothers disclosed a default on a $195 million Israeli bond offering and a $34 million transfer to affiliated companies.
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With democracy under pressure in the U.S. and Israel, the Pardes Institute and Faith250 ask Americans to read the founding documents the way they would a verse of Torah.
