Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Vital Signs: Betting on Jewish Literacy
Jack Wertheimer
Over the past three months I've published six essays in Jewish Ideas Daily on specific examples of people and programs that seem to me to offer welcome news—"Vital Signs"—for the future of American Jewish life. My list was hardly exhaustive; it could have been easily expanded to twice or perhaps even three times its size. Looking back now at my examples—a summer camp, a supplementary high school, a Hebrew-language initiative for young children, an adult-education program, a fellowship program for young community leaders, and a prayer group—I'm struck by the ubiquity of a leitmotif that, directly or indirectly, runs throughout all six.
