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Article: Group Therapy: Jewish organizations must be willing to change in this
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- The Jewish Week
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- February 3, 1995
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Samuel Heilman
The Jewish Week
02-03-1995
Group Therapy: Jewish organizations must be willing to change in this era. of transition.
For most of my life as an American Jew, I have taken for granted the existence of Jewish organizations. Like many others of my generation who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, I grew up with the reality of the Jewish federations; the Zionist organizations, perhaps most prominent among them Hadassah; the B'nai B'rith, in particular its Anti-Defamation League; the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress.
The list seemed endless, as did the involvement in Jewish organizational life. Although Jews never established themselves as a separate ...