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Letter to the Editor About “An Empty Place at the Jewish Table: Why Are Young Jews Dropping Out?”

JL;DR SUMMARY Perry Dane responds to Steve Lipman's article on young Jews leaving Orthodox Judaism, highlighting two key omissions. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityOrthodox JudaismConservative JudaismReligious IdentityReligious PracticeOrthodoxyGender EqualityHalakhic ObservanceYouth EngagementEgalitarian Judaism

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"it would tell us a good deal not only about the actual attrition rate in religious commitment, but also about the full texture of contemporary American Jewish life."

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