Commissioned Research Reports
Commissioned Research Reports

A series of research reports have been commissioned on various aspects of the central theme of "Jews and the American Public Square." The reports will be published in two volumes. The list of topics includes:

  1. Topic: "The Jewish Political Tradition and the English-Speaking World"
    Contributor: Prof. Daniel J. Elazar (deceased), Founding President, Center for Jewish Community Studies
  2. Topic: "Church-State Dilemmas of American Jews"
    Contributor: Prof. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University
  3. Topic: "Toward a Jewish Public Philosophy in America"
    Contributor: Prof. David Novak, University of Toronto
  4. Topic: "Under His Own Vine and Fig Tree: The Jewish Approach to Religion in American Public Life and its Problems"
    Contributor: Dr. Hillel Fradkin, American Enterprise Institute
  5. Topic: "American Jews Between Two Cultures"
    Contributor: Dr. Robert A. Licht, Center for Jewish Community Studies
  6. Topic: "Believers and the Founders' Constitution"
    Contributor: Prof. Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago
  7. Topic: "Jewish Activism in the American Public Square: Internal Tensions and Successes"
    Contributor: Prof. Marshall Breger, Catholic University of America
  8. Topic: "Uncertain Steps: American Jews and Others in the American Public Square"
    Contributor: Dr. Harvey Sicherman, Foreign Policy Research Institute
  9. Topic: "Jewish Critics of Strict Separationism"
    Contributor: Prof. David Dalin
  10. Topic: "Jews and Aid to Religious Schools"
    Contributor: Prof. Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary
  11. Topic: "Mainstream Orthodoxy and the Public Square"
    Contributor: Dr. Lawrence Grossman, American Jewish Committee
  12. Topic: "Haredim and the Public Square"
    Contributor: Prof. Samuel Heilman, Queens College, CUNY
  13. Topic: "The Conservative Movement and the Public Square"
    Contributor: Dr. Gordon Freeman, Rabbi, Congregation B'nai Shalom, Walnut Creek, California
  14. Topic: "Reconstructionism and the American Public Square"
    Contributor: Dr. David Teutsch, The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
  15. Topic: "The Reform Movement and the Public Square"
    Contributor: Prof. Lance Sussman, SUNY, Binghamton and Rabbi, Temple Concord
  16. Topic: "The Jewish Renewal Movement and the Public Square"
    Contributor: Prof. Allan Arkush, SUNY Binghamton
  17. Topic: "The Defenders: The Big Three: Jewish Advocacy in the Public Square"
    Contributor: Prof. Steven Windmueller, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles
  18. Topic: "Local Community Relations Councils and their National Body"
    Contributor: Dr. Michael Kotzin, Executive Vice President, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
  19. Topic: "The Jewish Community's Israel Advocacy in the American Public Square"
    Contributor: Martin Raffel, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
  20. Topic: "Jewish Involvement in the Public Square: The Organizational Disconnect"
    Contributor: Prof. Sherry Israel, Brandeis University
  21. Topic: "Our Families Ourselves? The Consonance and Dissonance of Political Attitudes and Jewish Lifestyles"
    Contributor: Prof. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Brandeis University
  22. Topic: "The Jewish Social Welfare Lobby"
    Contributor: Joel Carp, Jewish Federation of Chicago
  23. Topic: "The Rule of Law and the Establishment Clause"
    Contributor: Prof. Martin Plax, Cleveland State University
  24. Topic: "An Overview of American Jewish Defense"
    Contributor: Dr. Naomi Cohen, Jerusalem
  25. Topic: "Is Religion Compatible with Liberal Democracy?"
    Contributor: Marc Stern, American Jewish Congress

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