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Bookmark or Share- American Jews - WikipediaAmerican Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion. [4] According to a 2020 poll conducted by Pew Research, approximately two thirds of American Jews identify as Ashkenazi, 3% identify as Sephardic, and 1% identify as Mizrahi. An additional 6% identify as some combination of the ...
- The size of the U.S. Jewish population | Pew Research CenterThe “net” Jewish adult population seems to be keeping pace with the steadily growing U.S. population, rising from an estimated 5.3 million at the time of the 2013 Pew Research Center survey of Jewish Americans (2.2% of U.S. adults) to 5.8 million in 2020 (2.4%). The share of U.S. adults identifying as Jews by religion has been fairly stable ...
- Jewish Americans in 2020 - Pew Research CenterA new Pew Research Center survey finds that many Jewish Americans participate, at least occasionally, both in some traditional religious practices – like going to a synagogue or fasting on Yom Kippur – and in some Jewish cultural activities, like making potato latkes, watching Israeli movies or reading Jewish news online.
- The American Jewish Community Will Look Different in 50 YearsToday, the majority of American Jews are in the Reform and Conservative denominations. A new study by Yale SOM’s Edieal Pinker finds that in the coming decades, those groups will shrink and the number of Jews identifying as Orthodox will grow—a trend with implications for Jewish organizations and U.S. politics.
- What does it mean to be Jewish in the US? | CNNThough the American Jewish population has grown increasingly diverse, some Jews of color say they feel overlooked in Jewish spaces. William A. Morgan/Adobe Stock/FILE
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