Picking up where his bestseller Chutzpah left off, Dershowitz unblinkingly faces up to the quandaries that confront Jews today. Chutzpah -- the boldness, assertiveness, and willingness to demand what is due that he celebrated in his earlier book -- helped an older generation of Jews achieve the success they now enjoy in America. Yet paradoxically, the very same success now endangers the continued existence of American Jews.
In previous times, the threats to Jews were external -- the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism. Now, however, in late twentieth-century America, the danger has shifted. Jews today are more secure, more accepted, more assimilated, and more successful than ever before. They've dived into the melting pot -- and they've achieved the American Dream. And that, according to Dershowitz, is precisely the problem. More than 50 percent of Jews will mar
