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Among the more predictable find-
ings of the study: children who grow
up attending synagogue regularly
with their parents are more likely to
be Jewishly involved as adults, and
parents who enroll their children in
day schools tend to be more Jewishly
involved and more active in their
synagogue than parents who send
their children to supplemental
schools. •
"USY [United Synagogue Youth],
day schools, supplemental schools
and the Israel experience are all -
important, but above all we need par-
ents," said Schorsch.
The study carried findings that
Schorsch considers a bit more sur-
or the past decade, conven-
tional wisdom has held that
education is the key to
ensuring Jewish continuity.
A new study released by the Jewish
Theological Seminary (JTS) appears
to back up the assumption with hard
data.
Funded in part by a grant from
the Detroit-based Mandell L. Berman
and Madeleine H. Berman founda-
tion, the $25,000 "Jewish Identity
and Religious Commitment-. The
North American Study of
Conservative Synagogues and
Their Members, 1995-96"
focuses on the inner Jewish
lives of young people, the
impact of certain types of
Jewish education, the religious
commitment of Conservative
families and the varying cul-
tures of Conservative congrega-
tions.
At a Guardian Industries-
hosted luncheon for local lay
and professional Conservative
leaders last Thursday, JTS
chancellor Dr. Ismar Schorsch
and provost Dr. Jack
Wertheimer shared highlights
of the study.
Based on interviews of 6,000
members of Conservative syna-
Ismar Schorsch: "We don't have anything to fear
gogues, "Jewish Identity and
if we root our children in Jewish soil."
Religious Commitment" is,
according to Wertheimer, the
prising, among them the disparate
"most comprehensive study of any
attitudes revealed among 1,500
Jewish movement, possibly any reli-
Jewish teenagers and their parents.
gious group, with the exception of
Children tend to be more certain
the Mormons."
about
their belief in God than their
While it contains some surprising
parents,
but are also less opposed to
findings, the study overall affirms
intermarriage. Interviews with recent
that education is the key to the sur-
b'nai and b'not mitzvah will form the
vival of Judaism in the United States.
baseline for ongoing study by the JTS
"We often wonder if the blessing
on Jewish education.
of living in an open society will
Wertheimer, who directed and
become a curse for American Jews,"
edited the study, was troubled by its
said Schorsch. "This study shows we
findings on children of Jews by
don't have anything to fear if we root
choice.
our children deeply in Jewish soil."
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