Editors’ Introduction, v. 44(1)

Our issue begins with the 2023 Marshall Sklare Award addresses and related responses.Bestowed each year at the Association of Jewish Studies conference, the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) presents the award to a senior scholar who has made significant scholarly contributions to the social scientific study of Jewry (in the tradition of Marshall Sklare, one of the field's pioneering scholars), primarily through the publication of a corpus of research in book and article form, or published works related to public policy.Unusually, two scholars were honored in 2023, Bethamie Horowitz and Ira M. Sheskin, each representing a different subfield of the social sciences as well as different methodological approaches used in the study of contemporary Jewry.Bethamie Horowitz is a social psychologist, currently serving as a Research Assistant Professor at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where she works with the graduate programs in Education and Jewish Studies.As she recounts in her Sklare address, her career in Jewish social science began with the New York Population Study in 1991, her unique contribution changing how the field approached the study of Jewish identity.