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March 31, 2000

[social] -- Jewish Youths returning to Faith. Not all parents are happy.
 by Cody Clark at 7:28 AM (EST)

via Harvard's Pluralism Project, a Boston Globe report on a trend among Jewish youths returning to traditional forms of Judaism. Some of their lapsed or more liberal parents see this return to religion as a form of rebellion -- a critique of the parents' more secular lifestyles.

editor -- This is another piece of evidence of an ascendant trend in U.S. Judasim. An interesting intergenerational dynamic. I have anecdotal evidence (a hunch) that this youthful conservatism is also budding in my Catholic Church. I wonder how this dynamic plays out among the young in the other major religions in the U.S. We'll be keeping tabs...


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