Illustrates how some Jews have created a new, hybrid form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions.

At Brandeis University, Sylvia Barack Fishman is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life/ Sociology of American Jews in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department and the Co-Director of the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women. She is editor of Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction, and author of A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community, which was named 1994 Honor Book by the National Jewish Book Council.