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Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 05:53 Written by bryfy Sunday, 3 January 2009 10:40

Agree of disagree with him, Jay Michaelson has a habit of calling as it he sees it.

In a recent article in Haaretz Jay asks the question of who is an authentic Jew?

It is a question that was raised several times during my research of Jewish teenagers. Even the most secular looking Jews identified with ultra-orthodox archetypes as their image of the “authentic” Jew.

This phenomenon should be particularly troubling for families and Jewish educators who want to develop Jewish identity among young people especially that will in no way resemble the stereotyped image that many children grow up thinking is the “authentic” Jew.