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Sylvia Barack Fishman


Sylvia Barack Fishman, the Joseph and Esther Foster professor of Jewish and contemporary life at Brandeis University and co-director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, is the author of, among other books, The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness and Double or Nothing?: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage.

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  1. Response ·

    Let Us Now Praise Modern Orthodoxy

    By Sylvia Barack Fishman

    Against all odds, Modern Orthodoxy has successfully mixed serious religious engagement with modern life. Now it just has to retain the courage of its own convictions.

    Let Us Now Praise Modern Orthodoxy
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    The Larger Battle

    By Sylvia Barack Fishman

    The real fight facing American Jews is not against intermarriage but for marriage itself.

    The Larger Battle