JTA illustration by Mollie Suss. Last month, the New York Times convened what it called a “focus group of Jewish Americans.” I was struck briefly by that phrase Jewish Americans in part because the Times, like the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, tends to prefer “American Jews.” It’s seemingly a distinction without a difference, although I know others might
Opinion: Since Jews first began settling in New York almost a century ago, they have been confronted with a choice between total assimilation and maintaining their religious and ethnic uniqueness