How to Save American Jews

Jack Wertheimer is a professor of modern Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he also served as provost. Wertheimer’s research focuses on Jewish communal life in America and Jewish education.

Born in New York and brought up in Israel, Charles S. Liebman was a scholar of Jewish sociology and political science at Bar Ilan University. His work addressed the culture of Judaism and the Jewish people in the United States and Israel, in books and compelling articles. He received the Israel Prize in 2003.

Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist, is research professor of Jewish social policy at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, in New York. He has also taught at the Hebrew University. Cohen’s focus is on patterns of Jewish identity in the United States and abroad.