How The Summer of Love Changed American Judaism
Here’s an interesting article from the Jewish News of Northern California regarding the intersection of Jewish culture and the hippy movement.
But for many of the Jewish kids who flocked to the Haight a half-century ago, there was something else — a search for spirituality and meaning they felt was absent in the synagogues of their parents.
Aryae Coopersmith, whose book “Holy Beggars: A Journey from Haight Street to Jerusalem” details his spiritual journey that began in the hippie culture of San Francisco, argues that Jews seeking a higher sense of purpose provided much of the impetus for the hippie happenings of the late 1960s.