Famous and Jewish
Rob Eshman
November 17, 2005
Anyone can choose Jewishness at any point along a life path, and many, many people do. That means institutions that reach out in different ways at different life-cycle moments –preschools, synagogues, camps, mortuaries — must be able to welcome, educate and retain members of the tribe who possess only a vague sense of Jewishness. At the same time, people are coming to Judaism outside institutions, in new, unusual and, sometimes, unrecognizable ways
