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Judaism will survive as it has always survived— by accommodating itself to the larger socio-economic reality. Look at Israel. Tel Aviv is where the future of Israel is; Jerusalem is becoming a Hasidic theme park. And Tel Aviv is, as the book Start-Up Nation suggests, all about transnational corporatism. The Jews of Tel Aviv will create their own Judaism—highly secular and humanistic, with just enough ritualized jingoism and nostalgia for the ancient past to feed the romantic needs of a nearly soulless present.

Of course there are exceptions among us, especially Orthodox Jews, and if demographics is destiny, they may become “the Jewish people” over the next century, but they will have no interest in the Judaism you and I desire. We are speaking to a dying majority more drawn to convenience than covenant. They are not unhappy with the Judaism they have; it provides them with an identifiable narrative without asking anything significant of them and their lives. And those who are unhappy become Buddhists.