1. Preface

   • Rela Mintz Geffen
   • Egon Mayer

   OriginalPaper Pages: vii - viii

2. Foreword

   • Jim Schwartz

   OriginalPaper Pages: ix - xi

3. A research agenda for American Jewry

   • Mervin F. Verbit

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

4. Refraiming the study of contemporary American Jewish Identity

   • Bethamie Horowitz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 14 - 34

5. The American Jewish family: what we know. what we need to know

   • Linda J. Waite

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 63

6. Exploring jewish social networks

   • Rela Mintz Geffen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 64 - 71

7. What we don’t know about the judaism of America’s jews

   • Chaim I. Waxman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 72 - 95

8. Does Jewish schooling matter? A review of the empirical literature on the relationship between Jewish education and dimensions of Jewish identity

   • Arnold Dashefsky
   • Cory Lebson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 96 - 131

9. Relationships of American jews with Israel: What we know and what we need to know

   • Steven M. Cohen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 155

10. American jewry: An economic perspective and research agenda

    • Barry R. Chiswick

    OriginalPaper Pages: 156 - 182

11. Organizational and philanthropic behavior of the north American Jewish community

    • Daniel J. Elazar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 195

12. The marshall sklare memorial lecture

    • Calvin Goldscheider

    OriginalPaper Pages: 196 - 219

13. The importance of residence: goldscheider’s contribution to explaining orthodoxy’s vitality

    • Samuel Heilman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 220 - 236

14. Reviews

    • Hana Bor
    • Sonat Hart
    • J. Alan Winter

    BookReview Pages: 237 - 243