Having spent 31 years of my professional life at Rutgers University, as of
July 1, 2006, I am a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies.
I now live in Jerusalem, Israel, where I continue to spend much of my time in
research and writing.
I am now a Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
(www.jpppi.org.il), in Jerusalem,
where I focus on the area of Jewish identity and identification.
In addition to numerous articles and review-essays, my books include The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies (Pergamon
Press, 1977; Second Edition, 1983); America's Jews in Transition (Temple
University Press, 1983), American Aliya (Wayne State University Press, 1989),
and Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (State University of
New York Press, 2001). I also co-authored (with Rafael Medoff) the Historical
Dictionary of Zionism (Scarecrow Press, 2000), (with Shalom Z. Berger and Daniel Jacobson)
Flipping Out? Myth or Fact: The Impact of the “Year in
Israel” (Yashar Books, 2007), and have edited and co-edited more than
a half-dozen works in such diverse areas as political sociology, ethnicity,
and social thought, and Israeli society and culture, among others.
My major professional sub-disciplines are sociology of religion and sociology of
ethnicity, and I have interests in political sociology and the social stratification.
I also regularly taught a course in Classical Sociological Theory.
I am currently working on global Jewish identity and identification, as well as on a second edition of the Historical
Dictionary of Zionism.
I am also conducting research on American Israelis who live in Israel
and commute to work in the United States.
