However, in many cases their ethnic designation is Jewish while the individual's main religious practice is Buddhism.
Rodger Kamenetz introduced the term JewBu or JUBU in his 1994 book The Jew in the Lotus.
[6] After Zen's rise in popularity with the Beat Generation, a new wave of Jews became involved with Buddhism in the late 1960s.
Prominent teachers included Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Shinge Roshi Sherry Chayat and Sharon Salzberg who founded the Insight Meditation Society, Sylvia Boorstein who teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, all of whom learned vipassana meditation primarily through Thai teachers.
[7][8][9] Another generation of Jews as Buddhist teachers emerged in the early 2000s, including author Taro Gold, expounding Japanese traditions such as Nichiren Buddhism.