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He also writes of • Tensions that emerge in a traditional Conservative congregation in Los Angeles when one of the members seeks to include the matriarchs in the liturgy; • The intra- JULIE WIENER Orthodox tensions Jewish Telegraphic Agency ignited when five fer- vently Orthodox stu- New York dents declared the Yale ust as American Jews spent University's dorms the last decade worrying improper settings for about "continuity," they will observant Jews, even likely spend this one worrying though hundreds of about lack of consensus as to just what Samuel Freedman modern Orthodox kind of Judaism should be continued. Jews had happily lived That's the message of Samuel in them for years. Freedman's provocatively titled new Each of Freedman's narratives of con- book, Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the flict is introduced with an essay outlining Soul of American Jewry (Simon & the issue and placing it in historical con- Schuster, $26). The award-winning jour- text. He traces trends in immigration_ nalist is a Jewish Book Fair speaker on and assimilation, denominational shifts Wednesday, Nov. 8. and growth, patterns of leadership and That there are tensions among the more. Linked, these pieces provide a tex- different streams of Judaism — particu- tured chronicle of Jewish life in America larly between Orthodox and liberal Jews over the last 40 years. — is nothing new Umbrella organizations like federa- tions and Jewish community centers have struggled with dueling demands Freedman, a Columbia University jour- such as whether to close for Shabbat or nalism professor raised in an "intensely remain open, to allocate overseas funds secular" household, brings a bit of an to the liberal streams of Judaism or to outsider's perspective to the debate. This Orthodox yeshivot and social organiza- is his first book on a Jewish topic, and he tions, to support the Israeli prime minis- is reluctant to take sides or prescribe ter's willingness to exchange land for solutions, preferring instead to "create a peace or to condemn it. dissonance in the reader's brain," by What makes his book unique, says showing the humanity of those with Freedman, is that it is not "from one whom they might passionately disagree. polemical point of view or another." Interested in Judaism as a child, Instead, the book puts faces on the Freedman chose against his parent's wish- Jewish disunity, thoroughly chronicling es to have a bar mitzvah. But his Jewish the stories of a handful of people caught interest "ended abruptly" when the rabbi up in such disputes. The disputes in refused at the last minute to lead the ser- modern American Judaism, contends vice due to a dispute over whether the go beyond simply Orthodox Freedman, reception would be sufficiently kosher. vs. secular. "We had to find another rabbi and But the central conflicts of the book another synagogue, so everything I'd are the ones that pit Orthodox against heard from my parents_ about how sectar- liberal Jews. ian and petty Judaism was, seemed to Freedman examines: have been confirmed," said _Freedman. • The simultaneous demise of a secu- He returned to religion years later, in lar Zionist summer camp and exponen- an unlikely spot: as a reporter writing a tial growth of a neighboring Chasidic book on an African-American church in community in New Jersey Brooklyn. The church members fre- • A failed joint Orthodox-Reform- Journalist puts human faces on the war for Us. Jewry's future in his latest book. j Search For Roots