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American Jewish Attachment to Israel: An Assessment of the “Distancing” Hypothesis

Theodore Sasson, Charles Kadushin, Leonard S. Saxe

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The American Jewish community frequently bemoans a declining American Jewish attachment to Israel. Concern has been fueled by social scientific and journalistic reports alleging growing disaffection, especially among younger American Jews. In this paper we present substantial evidence challenging the "distancing" narrative and suggest that the opposite trend is quite possibly underway.

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The American Jewish community frequently bemoans a declining American Jewish attachment to Israel. Concern has been fueled by social scientific and journalistic reports alleging growing disaffection, especially among younger American Jews. In this paper we present substantial evidence challenging the "distancing" narrative and suggest that the opposite trend is quite possibly underway.

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The American Jewish community frequently bemoans a declining American Jewish attachment to Israel. Concern has been fueled by social scientific and journalistic reports alleging growing disaffection, especially among younger American Jews. In this paper we present substantial evidence challenging the "distancing" narrative and suggest that the opposite trend is quite possibly underway.

Key concepts: Distancing, Judaism, Social distance, Narrative, History, Social psychology, Criminology, Ethnology

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