Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard
Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard is the director of organizational development at CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He is the 2003 recipient of the Bernard Reisman Journal of Jewish Communal Service Article of the Year Award for "How to Think About Being Jewish in the 21st Century: A New Model of Jewish Identity Construction" (Fall 2002), on which this piece is based.
Articles by Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard
A New Model For Jewish Identity
Today, personal choice trumps group-oriented feelings of obligation as the basis for Jewish identity.