Turning away from tradition

… “There is growing discomfort with the drawing of hard group boundaries of all sorts,” Steven Cohen said of the so-called “millennials,” those born after 1980. “The idea of a Jewish state reflects hard group boundaries, that there is a distinction between Jews and everybody else. That does not sit well with young Jews.”

Stephen Cohen, co-author of a report that finds many young American Jews no longer have a strong attachment to the state of Israel. …