The Jews, We Are A-Changin’

By now, any Jew who has been awake for the past week has read numerous essays on the implications of the Pew research study on the current state of the American Jewish community. Like many others, I find the results of the study to be of great concern. I believe that there are still many more things that we, as a community, can do that would clearly make a different and could yet refresh and reinvigorate contemporary Jewish life.

And so, having written just about all that I want to say about the study, at least for now, I am returning to an earlier form of creativity: the song. 

Like many kids with a guitar and a creative urge, I used to write a lot of songs. I used to perform them at college coffeehouses, camp, and various youth events. I wrote Jewish songs — most notably with my friend and colleague Cantor Jeff Klepper