Newsweek - How the Recession is Affecting The Jewish People

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«How the Recession is Affecting The Jewish People - Newsweek

The Cost of Being Jewish--
How the recession affects religion

It sounds like a Catskills-era joke with a Jewish lawyer in the punchline, but among Jewish leaders it's deadly serious. Why does it cost so much to be Jewish? At a time when American families are tightening household budgets, does it really make sense to continue to charge thousands of dollars to participate in Jewish life? "Sheer institutional survival now preoccupies the heads of Jewish institutions," wrote Jack Wertheimer in Commentary in March.


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But on the day-to-day level, the high cost of the basics — synagogue membership, in particular — is troubling, both outdated as a business model and onerous to families having to choose between Hebrew school and math tutoring.»

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http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/08/the-cost-of-being-jewish.html

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