I don’t often like to think about the future. Instead, I like to study my past (hence my Jewish History major) and understand my present (hence my sociology major).
But when Commentary released its symposium wherein seventy professional Jews — academics, philosophers, researchers, and the like — were asked about what Judaism will look like in 2065, the answer was a resounding and ambivalent shrug. Some, to be sure, were more negative than others, claiming that Judaism and Jewish culture outside of Israel and those who cling to it will no longer exist, as Elliott Abrams surmised in the opening remarks of the symposium. Others, fearing the continued ascendancy of the Islamic State and the rise of anti-Semitism, see the future of Jews as downright bleak at best and utterly destroyed at worst.
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