Nothing epitomizes the American experience like suburbia - the quintessence of the goldena medina.
Frankly, when I think of Jewish suburbia, I think of breaking from tradition and submersion in materialism. That's not quite the way Etan Diamond sees things. Diamond, a social historian, studied the movement of Toronto's modern Orthodox Jews from the inner city to the suburbs. He sees the three main developments in the suburban Orthodox community as the creation of sacred time, an integrated community, and a homogenized culture. These have been constants for traditional Jewry for thousands of years.