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In his provocative book, Getting our Groove Back: How To Energize American Jewry (Devora Publishing, January, 2007), Scott Shay takes on the major obstacles facing American Jewry today. He examines the current state and future prospects of American Jewry and finds a Jewish community that is dangerously adrift and on an overall downward trajectory, due to a community-wide lack of shared purpose, focus, and mutual concern. To counter this downward spiral, the author presents a platform of ten practical and achievable mini-manifestos that can reinvigorate American Jewry as a whole. Casting away conventional wisdom and political correctness, this book carefully brings to bear extensive research as it deals with the most controversial and essential issues facing American Jews. Crafted to be practical, Getting Our Groove Back is also uplifting. For every question the author presents, he details his solutions in a pragmatic, doable fashion. It soon becomes clear that American Jewry is in a unique time and place at the nexus of promise and peril as it faces the choice of being an inspiration or irrelevant. In these pages no punches are pulled and no issues are avoided. Readers are challenged and enlightened, and forced to rethink their own pre-conceptions and conclusions about the state of American Jewry and its place in the world.

Scott Shay is actively involved in a Jewish formal and informal education. He serves as a board member of the UJA – Jewish Federation of New York, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education and the Jewish Agency for Israel. He is immediate past chair of the Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal of UJA-Jewish Federation. Mr. Shay is also a member of the birthright Israel Steering Committee and is Chair of The Fund for Jewish Education. Mr. Shay is Chairman of the Board of Signature Bank of New York and is active in private equity investments through Shay Ventures LLC. He was previously a partner and a co-founder of Hyperion Partners. Mr. Shay is active in Israel investments having served for eight years as a member of the board of Bank Hapoalim and as a partner of Hyperion Israel Venture Partners. He is also on the board of Super Derivatives.