For the Record
Nov. 18th, 2013 05:16 pmMy opinion on the Pew Survey of American Jews, as articulated dozens of times in the past weeks.
I don't really care about anything it says. But I am sick of being swamped by blogposts and pulpit sermons and conversation with other Jews drawing silly conclusions from the survey.
Orthodox Judaism: Possibly a seething mass of evil hypocrites, but not because the survey says so.
Conservative Judaism: Possibly dying, but not because the survey says no.
Reform Judaism: Possibly indistinguishable from secular Judaism, but not because the survey says so.
Any other ridiculous things you've heard in the past few weeks about Judaism that you want me to make clear are not proven by the survey?
I don't really care about anything it says. But I am sick of being swamped by blogposts and pulpit sermons and conversation with other Jews drawing silly conclusions from the survey.
Orthodox Judaism: Possibly a seething mass of evil hypocrites, but not because the survey says so.
Conservative Judaism: Possibly dying, but not because the survey says no.
Reform Judaism: Possibly indistinguishable from secular Judaism, but not because the survey says so.
Any other ridiculous things you've heard in the past few weeks about Judaism that you want me to make clear are not proven by the survey?