Who are today’s Jewish leaders and what influences encouraged them toward positions of leadership? The American Jewish community has been making a decades-long massive investment in education, including the expansion of Jewish day schools, overnight Jewish camping, Jewish Studies in college, Hillels and educational travel to Israel. Research studies show the effectiveness of many forms of Jewish education for predicting adult Jewish involvement. What is the overall contribution of Jewish education to the vitality of the American Jewish community? How were today’s Jewish leaders educated in their childhood and adolescent years? How do the patterns differ by denomination, political identity,...