Boy, did we hit paydirt with our Harris/Prager dialogue. Here's Samuel Freedman, a professor of journalism at Columbia, bringing the Jews into the big tent of angry atheism in the Jerusalem Post:
Those old ways no longer work. The present reality in a tolerant, polyglot country is that religious practice offers the only irreducible way to sustain continuity. I say this not as an advertisement for religion over atheism but as a historical truth. Supporting social justice cannot be claimed as the ethical property of just one faith. Appeals to class consciousness ring hollow when we're in the management suite instead of on the factory floor. Yiddish these days is the lingua franca of the hassidim of Brooklyn, not the socialists of the Lower East Side. The intermarriage rate is – well, you get the idea.
Just proves the old adage. Its an ill wind that blows no good. You fail to overlook the crucial stage.