Tema Smith: Judaism Unbound Episode 284 - Jews in Pew’s…Studies

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Tema Smith, Director of Professional Development for 18 Doors, joins Dan and Lex to discuss -- and re-frame -- the Pew Research Center's 2020 study of Jewish Americans.

[1] Learn more about Tema Smith by heading to TemaSmith.com, and follow her on twitter via @temasmith. Read her recent article, which is entitled “The Missing 2020 Pew Study Headlines” and inspired this episode, by clicking here.

[2] Learn more about 18 Doors, which “empowers people in interfaith relationships — individuals, couples, families and their children,” by heading to 18doors.org.

[3] You can access the full 2020 Pew Study here.

[4] Stay tuned for the release of JOCI’s (Jews of Color Initiative’s) Beyond the Count study, focused specifically on Jews of Color in the United States, here (it will be released in mid-August 2021).

[5] Smith references an article entitled “Is Judaism more like an operating system or an app?,” which was written by Brian Blum. In looking back at this article, we realized that this article mentions Judaism Unbound, and looks back at some of our own conversations about Judaism as operating system or as app! For one of our earliest conversations on this topic, see Episode 21: jOS 4.0 - a New Jewish Operating System (both Dan and Lex have shifted to some extent since this first conversation, but still worth checking out).