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Jewish American demographics
Illustrative image: Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton combined Jewish and Methodist traditions during their wedding ceremony on July 31, 2010. (Genevieve de Manio, via JTA)
July 12, 2019, 3:46 pm
When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’
Nearly 30 years ago, reports of a 52% interfaith household rate had some US Jewish leaders denouncing ‘assimilation’ as silently completing Hitler’s work
By Matt Lebovic
Participants in a think tank event hosted by the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative in Berkeley, California. (Courtesy/Jews of Color Field Building Initiative)
May 31, 2019, 3:55 am
US Jews of color are chronically undercounted, researchers find
Studies of American Jewish population fail to ask about race, says report, which estimates that up to 15% of community is nonwhite
By Josefin Dolsten
Chaim I. Waxman
July 23, 2018, 2:12 pm
Chaim I. Waxman
The fertility of American Jewry
Jews worrying about demographics was around before Steven M. Cohen and his research, and it will be around after him too
In 2017, there were 68,000 Jewish children living in the San Francisco Bay Area (Mattthew Septimus)
February 14, 2018, 11:14 am
Vast, young San Fran Jewish community is growing — but unaffiliated, says study
While the millennial-driven community is racially and socioeconomically more diverse than imagined, it’s also one of the least engaged
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Newborn babies in a Jerusalem hospital. (Flash90)
April 13, 2017, 4:08 am
Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?
Eclectic essays explore Ben-Gurion’s experimentation with demographic eugenics, and the Jewish ardor — and abhorrence — for taking stock
By Matt Lebovic
Commack Jewish Center in 1998 (left) at the bar mitzvah of Michael Weber (Courtesy: Mandi Kirschman) and (right) the same sanctuary space in July of 2016, as the new Church Unleashed (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
September 6, 2016, 2:06 am
How my childhood shul became a televangelist church
As Jewish facilities shut down across Long Island, a reporter returns to the synagogue of his youth — recently purchased by televangelists affiliated with Joel Osteen
By Matt Lebovic
Appearing on January 28, 2016 at Brown University in Providence, Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky (left) and Hollywood legend Michael Douglas held a conversation on Jewish identity and pluralism. (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
January 29, 2016, 9:06 am
On tour, Douglas and Sharansky urge ‘a more inclusive’ Jewry
Hollywood star travels on campuses with Israel’s most famous refusenik, addressing Jewish pluralism and anti-Semitism
By Matt Lebovic
New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2014' on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)
June 28, 2015, 6:43 pm
Worldwide Jewry nowhere near pre-WWII numbers, says foremost Jewish demographer
Contrary to reports that the Jewish population is approaching, and may even have passed, pre-Holocaust numbers, it actually falls more than two million short, says Prof. Sergio DellaPergola. Maybe try again in 35 years
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
General view of the crowd gathered for the canonization mass of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II at St Peter's square at the Vatican on April 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)
May 12, 2015, 9:03 pm
Poll: Americans becoming less Christian, more secular
Unaffiliated faith group called ‘nones’ by researchers is 2nd-largest community behind evangelicals; Jewish population sees slight growth
By Rachel Zoll
Illustrative: An American Muslim man standing next to an American Jewish man. (Adam Berry/Getty Images/via JTA)
April 6, 2015, 12:27 am
Pew numbers on world faiths add up to more stark news for Jews
Following 2013’s survey, which showed soaring intermarriage, latest study shows Muslim growth and a shrinking American Jewish demographic
By Uriel Heilman
In West Roxbury's Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries, a row of ten memorial chapels echoes Boston's Jewish heyday, when Roxbury and Dorchester had 90,000 Jews. In this Sept. 2014 photo, a chapel interior shows signs of abandonment. (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
November 23, 2014, 3:23 pm
What happened to the Jews of Boston’s ‘Jew’ Hill Avenue?
The rise and fall of Beantown’s Jewish boomtown parallels America’s urban immigration story
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative photo of Miami (Shutterstock/JTA)
October 20, 2014, 7:02 pm
Study finds Miami Jewish community is booming
With Israelis topping the list, Miami has a higher proportion of foreign-born Jewish adults than any other American Jewish community
By Uriel Heilman
The popular bridge club gathers at the Wilkes-Barre JCC, where the Jewish community is aging and has declined in numbers. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
June 4, 2014, 11:23 am
Jews gamble $11m. to save fading Pennsylvanian community
Faced with withering institutions and a mean age of 60, residents of Wilkes-Barre form an ambitious plan for a central Jewish hub
By Uriel Heilman
From left: married chefs Sawako Okochi and Aaron Israel, with manager Micaela Grossman, in front of Brooklyn's Shalom Japan. (photo credit: courtesy)
October 18, 2013, 5:10 pm
Shalom Japan, where dishes sound like punchlines
Check out the Matzo Ball Ramen and the Oy Vey Iz Kir cocktail at Brooklyn’s newest hybrid eatery, where you’ll find intermarriage at its finest
By Orli Santo
Young Jewish adults from all over the world participating in the Taglit Birthright program celebrate 10 years of the Birthright program at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem, January 7, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 9, 2013, 10:23 pm
Growing pains for a teen-aged Taglit-Birthright
Once all spots were filled in a frenzied few days; nowadays trip organizers are asking for indefinite extensions. What’s changed?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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