Judaism's Encounter with American Sports

Examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. This title uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America.

Contents Prologue: Within the Wide Tent of a Bronx Orthodox Congregation, circa 1960 1. All Alone and Out of Control 2. American Challenges and Jewish Challengers 3. Religious Dilemmas of a Treif Land 4. Strategies of New York's Orthodox Activists 5. Crisis and Compromise 6. Brooklyn's Committed Communities 7. A More Faithful Following 8. Comfortable and Courted 9. Orthodox vs. Orthodox 10. Open and Closed to Feminism Epilogue: The Tentative Orthodox of the Twenty-First Century