Ron Young serves as staff consultant for the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East, a national organization of 2,500 American Jews, Christians and Muslims. The committee carries on programs nationwide on dialogue, education and advocacy in support of U.S. policies in the Middle East.

Read the 2006 Reboot poll which found that many young Jews are intensely interested in their Jewish identity but disinterested in Jewish institutional life.

Read a Synagogue 3000 article about the growth of spirituality in the Jewish youth and the national expansion of Judaism.

Read the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly transcript of a Sept. 30, 2005 interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on Jewish renewal movements.

Read a 2009 essay published in the Journal of Jewish Communal Service about the expansion of Judaism, and the growing interests and appropriations of its spiritual practices.

Read Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg’s column, “The Fad That Would Not Pass,” about Jewish spirituality and its focus not on the community but on the self.

The JewishYouth.com Webring offers links to Jewish youth organizations’ websites that inform on activities and information for Jewish children and families, and resources for educators.

The website JewishLink provides information on Jewish spirituality and seeks to study the lost practice of Jewish healing in order to bring it to the modern world.  

Why should the secular media cover religion? By Gayle White The Atlanta Journal-Constitution* Why should the secular media cover politics? Or science? Or sports? Because they are part of human life and contribute to the order of society. Often, religion provides the “why” in the equation of a story. Faith motivates people, groups and, at […]