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...Whom do I have in mind? The new generation of "Chavurah Jews," meeting in lay-led prayer groups and retreats in a collective and "DIY" (do-it-yourself) way; what might be called "OMG! Jews," after the path-breaking Reboot study of religious affiliation in "Generation Y," which showed how younger Jews pick and choose from multiple sources of religious and cultural identity rather than look to a single source (such as a synagogue) for communal and spiritual life; Online Jews, such as the Jewschool and Jewlicious communities, each widely diverse groups of younger Jews for whom "online" and "real world" are not two separate domains but a single continuum, and the new generation of Jewish spiritual seekers, for whom the clichés of the 1960s are literary history but who are nonetheless inspired by that period's curiosity, openness to multiple traditions and emphasis on lived experience rather than on inherited dogma. These are some of the characteristics of the new Jewish spiritualities: decentralized, experience-centered (some would say narcissistically so), integrating wisdom from other traditions and from non-"spiritual" aspects of life, and defying of easy categorization.
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