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He also questioned the survey's
wording.
"What's missing is what is the defini-
tion of 'important, he said. "In
Catholicism, it's a question of feeling,
and if you go to church once a week or
to confession regularly you can consider
yourself a very good Christian.
In Judaism, there are actions, both
positive and negative, that are required
to become a devout Jew, and it's very
difficult to quantify what that means."
Even so, Ganchrow conceded it is
true that for a large number of Jews
religion is not important, and "that's
the tragedy of America."
Mark Seal, executive vice president
of the synagogue arm of the
Reconstructionist movement, said the
Gallup finding contrasts with both
anecdotal observations and a 1997
survey of his movement. In the
Reconstructionist survey, a large num-
ber of respondents reported being
interested in learning and observance,
and were "more Jewishly literate" than
their parents.
However, Seal said that "people are
looking for community and values and
may not define it as religion."
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the
Reform movement's Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,
agreed with others that Jews tend to
define themselves as a people rather
than a religion.
Nonetheless, although he has
observed a resurgence of Jewish inter-
est in religion, he said synagogues
need to do more to "move it along."
"In the final analysis, while we're a
people, with the absence of commit-
ment to religious life, the Jewish peo-
ple does not survive," he said. "You
can't have one without the other, and
we need a renewed emphasis on the
religious dimensions."
For Rabbi Jerome Epstein, execu-
tive vice president of the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism,
part of the problem may be that
Jewish leaders have not been "as forth-
right" as leaders of other faiths in
addressing the importance of God.
"We don't talk about God enough,"
Rabbi Epstein said. "People often
don't find God without someone to
help them find God, and that's part of
our challenge.
"In the Conservative movement,
we're finding there is an interest, that
people are looking for something
beyond material success, and it's our
responsibility to use that opening to
begin to engage people," he said.

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