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Youth in the Making of American ΊΪΑΟΙη History
May 11, 2026 By Sandra Fox
In the mid-twentieth century, the American ΊΪΑΟΙη communityΒ emergedΒ as what scholars have broadly labeled βchild-centered,β with rabbis, educators, and communal leaders focusing their concerns over the future of Judaism on children, teens, and young adults. In narratives of American ΊΪΑΟΙη history, however, the experiences of the young are typically overlooked, the focus placed instead on how their elders hoped to shape their identities and stem the tides of assimilation.
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Zakhor in a Fractured Age
Feb 27, 2026 By Sandra Fox | Commentary | Shabbat Zakhor | Tetzavveh
βCould you have chosen a more loaded week?β said my husband with a face that can only be described as both bemused and pitying when I told him that I had agreed to write my first JTS Torah Commentary on Shabbat Zakhor. As the heaviness of the reading sank in, with its commandment to recall Amalekβs unprovoked attack on the Israelites and to βblot outβ Amalekβs memory, I became apprehensive.
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