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LAHSA volunteers report low homelessness rate in San Fernando Valley
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2016
Tally sheets in hand and layered up against the weather — though they were instructed not to leave their vehicles — volunteers took to their cars and spread out into the night to seek out the homeless around Encino as part of the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count on Jan. 27.
Census puts U.S. population at 320.09 million, up 0.7 percent from year-ago
Jewish Journal
December 30, 2014
The U.S. population is seen at 320.09 million people as of Jan. 1, up 0.73 percent from a year earlier, the Census Bureau said on Monday.
Making an Orthodox sense of an unorthodox census
Rabbi Dov Fischer
October 4, 2013
The Pew survey, reported last week in major news outlets, inadvertently mischaracterizes Orthodox demographic trends quite dramatically and necessarily undercounts us significantly, for the same reason that other random-digit-dialing and surveying techniques do. I previously have analyzed these statistical phenomena at such places as
A dialogue on Jewish life in America today
Shmuel Rosner
July 25, 2012
Following the publication of the New York Jewish Population Study, Shmuel Rosner interviewed Steven M. Cohen, research professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner. So, how many Jewish people are there exactly?
Why counting counts: Who knows who L.A.’s Jews are?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
July 25, 2012
Susan Goldberg, rabbi of Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock, grew up in nearby Echo Park. “There were no Jewish families around when I was growing up,” Goldberg, 38, said. Now that these neighborhoods are being gentrified, and a young, creative crowd is moving in, the Jews are coming, too.
Two studies put U.S. Jewish census at up to 6.6 million
Jewish Journal
January 17, 2012
More than 6 million Jews are living in the United States, according to two independent studies. The two studies, using completely different methodology, discovered between 6.4 million and 6.6 million U.S. Jews, or about 1.8 percent of the population, the Forward reported.
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