Blog : Philosémitisme

?La génération suivante est devenue moins antisémite, et le processus s'est poursuivi. De sorte qu'en Amérique tous les stéréotypes antisémites, du type Shylock et assassins du Christ, ainsi que tous les autres, finirent par disparaître de la culture publique et ensuite de la culture privée.? (Robert D. Putnam, Université de Harvard) 

Les attitudes des Américains envers les Juifs n'ont jamais été aussi positives.

And the most popular religion in the US is..., by Gil Shefler (TJP)

Harvard professor finds Judaism tops the list; American attitudes toward Jews ?better than ever.?

What is the most popular religion in the US' Is it one of the Protestant denominations, brought over from the Old Country with the pilgrims and pioneers' Catholicism, whose ranks in the US grow daily by the steady stream of devout believers coming from Latin America' Or is it perhaps Mormonism, the country's truly unique religion born in America'

If you said yes to one of the above, try again. According to a study featured in American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, a new book co-written by sociologists Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell [Université de Notre Dame], which asked a cross sample of 3,000 ordinary Americans to rank religions, the most popular faith in the US is Judaism.
?We asked everyone in the survey to say how they felt about Catholics and Evangelicals and Jews and Mormons and Muslims, and so we were able to calculate a popularity ranking, so to speak, of different religions,? Putnam told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. ?Most surprisingly, the most popular religion in America are Jews among non-Jews, followed closely by Catholics. Fifty years ago, or 100 years ago, that almost certainly would not have been true.?

Lire la suite ICI
- La grande majorité des Américains aiment Israël
- The New Israel and the Old, par Walter Russell Meade