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Daf Yomi Fever: How Daily Talmud Study Is Sweeping the Nation
Esther D. Kustanowitz
January 14, 2020
Religious children less generous and altruistic than secular ones
Jewish Journal
November 9, 2015
A new study finds that contrary to conventional wisdom, children raised in nonreligious homes are more generous and altruistic than their peers who receive a religious upbringing.
Survey: Half of U.K. Jews not overly concerned by rising anti-Semitism
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
Nearly 70 percent of Jews in the United Kingdom believe anti-Semitism is on the rise, a new survey found, but half of the respondents are not overly concerned.
Pew study finds a vibrant Jewish community
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2013
Over the past week, I have seen a flurry of writing about Pew Research Center’s study on American Jews. Several scholars and communal leaders have taken an alarmist stance toward the findings, calling the increasing rate of intermarriage “devastating” and describing non-Orthodox Jews as “demographically challenged.” As an adviser to the Pew study and researcher of American Jewish communities, I would like to offer a more optimistic analysis.
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