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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

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

Laura Yares, Michigan State University and Sharon Avni, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

To understand what religion looks like in 21st-century America, researchers may need to ask different questions.
A confirmation class in 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest/Wikimedia Commons

Shavuot: The Jewish holiday that became all about children

Laura Yares, Michigan State University

Shavuot, which was originally an ancient pilgrimage festival, has gone through many changes over the years – as has Judaism itself.

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