How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America. By Elliott Abrams. The Free Press. Into this derby, Jews enter with their own distinctive, self-destructive twist. For most groups, identity boils down to expansion of their collective activities and influence.
Women occupy a stable fraction of the total population.
Gay men and lesbians have increased in visibility and probably in numbers. But Jewish identity, once strong, has yet to be revitalized to secure Jewish survival. The author's diagnosis of the decline of American Jewry hits home. His solutions, structural or spiritual, may not supply his desired cure. Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration and now president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, rehearses the Jewish decline with grim thoroughness.