Jews in Israel will outnumber Jews in the United States in two decades, part of a shift in Jewish population by which Israel will become home to a majority of the world\’s Jews by 2050, says a study in the new edition of the \”American Jewish Year Book.\”
The following outlines some of the fundamental flaws in the L.A. Jewish Population Survey of 1997 not reported by other respondents.
I have seen the Jewish future and, to my surprise, it still belongs to the Baby Boomers. By now I\’d guess that Boomers would happily cede attention and civic responsibility to Gen Xers and Gen J but nothing doing. One in three Jews today are between ages 35-53, and the needs and demands of this group will dominate Jewish life well into the coming decades.
If the pursuit of peace in the Middle East will not unite the parties concerned, then one life-sustaining element may. Israeli, Arab and American researchers and engineers have come together to find ways to produce more potable water for agricultural use, as demands for supplies of Middle Eastern and Californian freshwater continue to increase.
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