Many Americans Are Moving Away From Congregations, but Not Necessarily From Religion – Movies, Plays, Art and Social Media Fill the Gap

Americans are moving away from congregations, but not necessarily from religion

She was highly invested in learning about Judaism, but she explored her identity without joining traditional institutions.

Many Americans are moving away from congregations, but not necessarily from religion – movies, plays, art and social media fill the gap

Theatergoers arrive for 'Leopoldstadt,' a play about several generations of a Jewish family in Vienna, at Wyndham's Theatre in London in 2020. Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images“Emma,” a young Jewish woman who we met in 2019, didn’t belong to a synagogue. She didn’t have a Jewish partner. She didn’t observe Jewish rituals regularly. On most surveys about religion, she would not seem very engaged with Judaism. But as Emma talked about what she …