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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Leonard Saxe

Participants in a Taglit Birthright program celebrate at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on January 14, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 28, 2017, 3:41 pm
‘Vast majority’ of Jewish students are connected to Israel, insists Brandeis prof
15 years of comprehensive study leads Prof. Len Saxe to laugh off ‘devastating’ allegations that millennials are losing support for Jewish state
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The White House. (Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)
September 23, 2016, 3:24 am
Study shows US Jewish votes could play decisive role in swing states
Unprecedented state-by-state research indicates Jews are mostly Democrats, not necessarily ‘liberal,’ could swing election in a tight race
By Penny Schwartz
Illustrative photo of interrogation with the help of lie detector on June 26, 2011 in Jerusalem. (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
March 6, 2016, 12:01 pm
When a job interview turns into an interrogation
In the United States, polygraph tests in the workplace have been outlawed for 28 years. Why are Israeli employers still using them?
By Simona Weinglass
Professor Theodore Sasson, Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University’s Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, presents the new study, 'Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Touchpoints and Trajectories of Jewish Engagement' in New York, October 2015. (courtesy)
November 3, 2015, 2:15 pm
Children of intermarriage’s attachment to Judaism most fluid in college
New in-depth study of Millennials finds education key to continuity: Hillel, Chabad and Birthright all shape Jewish identity of student born to interfaith home
By Cathryn J. Prince
Prof. Leonard Saxe presents his new report 'Antisemitism and the College Campus: Perceptions and Realities' in Jerusalem on July 28, 2015. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)
July 28, 2015, 8:09 pm
Verbal abuse against Jewish students now ‘fact of life’ on US campuses
Other findings of new report: 50% of Jewish students unaware of anti-Israel boycott movement; connection to Israel up after Gaza war
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Table showing survey answers on question of Responsibility of Conflict and Justification of Actions. (Courtesy Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University)
August 29, 2014, 1:40 am
Study of young US Jewish adults finds nuanced support for Israel
Survey shows Birthright applicants feel solidarity with the Jewish state, while empathizing with death and destruction in Gaza
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Birthright Israel participants at Masada, summer 2012 (photo credit: Courtesy Taglit-Birthright/JTA)
January 23, 2014, 4:12 pm
Birthright expands criteria to include second-timers
Discussions in new government task force on French Jewry yield proposal to earmark budget for bolstered French participation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Young Jewish adults from all over the world participating in the Taglit Birthright program celebrate 10 years of the Birthright program at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem, January 7, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 9, 2013, 10:23 pm
Growing pains for a teen-aged Taglit-Birthright
Once all spots were filled in a frenzied few days; nowadays trip organizers are asking for indefinite extensions. What’s changed?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative photo of Birthright participants visiting Masada, summer 2012. (Taglit-Birthright/JTA)
April 19, 2013, 3:34 am
The flip side of Birthright Israel
Drastic decline in travel to Israel among US Jewish high-schoolers, in part because they can come for free when they turn 18
By Gil Shefler
July 26, 2012, 9:09 am
Leading Jewish demographer disputes study of NY Jews
But agrees that overall NY Jewish population has grown
A Haredi and a secular Jew praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
July 7, 2012, 4:10 am
Playlist Judaism
A community struggling to meet the needs of Jewish identity surveys ‘others’
By Debra Rubin
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