GARY A. TOBIN, Ph.D., is president of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research in San Francisco and director of the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Program in Jewish Policy Research at the University of Judaism. He has published extensively in the areas of antisemitism, synagogue affiliation, Jewish organizational planning, and philanthropy and foundations in the Jewish community. Tobin is the recipient of the 1997 Koret Foundation Prize for his research in the American Jewish community.