"Jews of No Religion": The End of American Jewish Identity?

August 20, 2014 by Michael Felsen

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BWC isn't alone. Its Sunday School is a member of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring (WC/AR) network of Learning Communities, including locations in Long Island, Midtown Manhattan, and Westchester, New York. A 113-year-old fraternal organization founded to assist immigrant Jews in their transition to life in America, WC/AR today organizes and promotes communities that learn and celebrate Jewish culture, values, and social justice activism together.

Not surprisingly, the Pew study sounded an alarm in the Jewish world. But it validated what Boston Workmen's Circle and its kindred Jewish cultural and social justice communal organizations already knew. Their model can offer a Jewish address for the hundreds of thousands of progressive "Jews of no religion" who now find themselves homeless. Some part of the Jewish American future—how much remains to be seen—lies down this path.

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