Don't give up, you will always find a Last Mohican somewhere. If you start walking door to door and give out little booklets, it might work, but I know for sure it won't work in Pasadena.

A bustling new Jewish Community Centre that embraces the whole community from the Secular to the Orthodox and all shades in between To Visitors and Londoners alike its a MUST DO. Give them all your support! Where the JW3 has taken the lead in bringing together and repairing the divisions of a fractured community - lets hope the Religious Leadership finally wake up to their responsibilities too and address the issue of Legitimising Membership and Marriage across all degrees of Orthodoxy Its PERVERSE that in this day and age an Orthodox Boy finds it so difficult to marry a Liberal Girl and vice verca The JW3 helps give expression to that indefinable 'Jewishness' felt by Jews and many Non Jews - however religiously active they are

Opinion surveys are a snapshot of a small corner of a big picture. If you had asked the same questions 90 years ago a lot more American Jews would have answered they did not believe in religion and many of them would have been working class Yiddish speakers and Zionists. Some would have been strivers trying to make their way into society who were trying to fit in by being invisible. There is probably a higher degree of participation in life cycle events and holidays now than in the good old days. Even secular Jews observe Passover and Hanukah. Almost all are proud to be Jews.

are halakhically Jewish. The problem is that those who don't have Abraham's faith are unable, for a big majority , to keep their children or grandchildren inside the Jewish people

twin of Jacob-Israel & son of "Jewish" mother Rivka Israel is b'rit (religiously), NOT genetically (racist), determined. If "Jews" are genetically (racist), determined "halakhically" then "Jews" are NOT Israel!

were named after his changed name : Israël, not Esau, nor Ismael. If you read the Bible, you'll see that the Brit was effective only after we received the Tora at mount Sinai. This Brit was for the 12 tribes present at har Sinai and all those who converted later. The Jewish people today is a mix of the remaining tribes (determined by the mother) and converts

There is and always has been only one solution to assimilation and that is residing in a Jewish Homeland all other attempts have failed to see the frightening reality see the history of the Jews of Natchez Mississippi once flourishing now reduced to 10 souls buried together in separate cemeteries but same unfenced plots are Jewish Protestant and Catholic graves all containing Jewish names & the assimilationist history of the community & you can trace there from Orthodox Jew to Reform to Protestant & Catholic to zero Jews.

I wonder what a survey of Israelis would show - I wouldn't be at all surprised it it showed that more Israelis think of themselves as Israelis, not Jews. The level of observance in Israel is probably less than in the US.