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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Jewish American demographics

A Jewish activist at an anti-Israel protest in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 13, 2025, 7:06 pm
New research project aims to counter US Jewish activist groups that hold minority views
The Jewish Majority releases first poll on community’s attitudes toward campus protests, anti-Zionism; leading demographer questions its methodology
By Luke Tress
People shop at the Alrov Mamilla Avenue in Jerusalem on August 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2021, 5:09 pm
Israel’s population rises to over 9.3 million on Rosh Hashanah eve
Officials figures show number of people in country grew by 146,000 since last Jewish new year, including 20,000 immigrants
By ToI Staff
Jewish men praying for forgivness (Selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on September 5, 2021, prior to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2021, 3:05 am
Number of Jews worldwide hits 15.2 million; 6.93 million of them are in Israel
On eve of Rosh Hashanah, figures show 45.3% of Jews live in Israel; 25.3 million eligible for Law of Return
By ToI Staff
In this Sunday, June 1, 2014 file photo, a boy carries a peace dove sign with others from a Jewish school during the Celebrate Israel parade in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
October 9, 2019, 12:03 am
Despite doomsday predictions, US Jewish community grew 10% in last seven years
New survey shows America’s estimated 7.5 million Jews are older, whiter and more liberal than country as a whole, and US has larger Jewish population than Israel
By Ben Sales
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
Illustrative: 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
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