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Pew points the way toward more avenues to Jewish life

Jewish Journal October 8, 2013

Since the release of the Pew report on American Jews, the question I’ve been asked most often is what surprises me about it.

Engagement trends are negative, but Jewish funders see validation in Pew study

Jewish Journal October 7, 2013

If you’re pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Jewish identity building, what do you do when a survey comes along showing that the number of U.S. Jews engaging with Jewish life and religion is plummeting?

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

1 in 5 U.S. Jews: No religion

Jonah Lowenfeld October 2, 2013

Of the approximately 5.3 million American adults who consider themselves Jewish, 22 percent say they have no religion, according to a new survey of American Jews conducted by the Pew Research Center and released on Oct. 1.

Understanding the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life’s religious affiliation study

Jewish Journal January 2, 2013

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently released a global study of religion whose findings have appeared in newspapers and social media everywhere. Using more than 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers, it found that 84 percent of adults and children around the globe are religiously affiliated; the median age of two major groups, Muslims (23 years) and Hindus (26), is younger than the world’s overall population (28). Jews have the highest median age (36) of the groups studied.