Only about a third of Jews (39 percent) report to “feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being at least once a week” in 2014 while generally Americans report at something approaching two-thirds (59 percent) to “feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being at least once a week.”
This is even more jarring since the rest of the US population is reporting a significant (7 percent) increase of spiritual feelings in the seven years between 2007 and 2014 while US Jews have shown little and perhaps no increase (2 percent) in spiritual peace and well-being.
This finding was a recently released report of the Pew Research Center.
I find the question a bit problematic in that “spirituality” as meaning “a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being” may be somewhat alien to Jewish religious and cultural circumstance which may engender constant vigilance and awareness in the spiritual sense. Perhaps that is why there is a Jewish affinity to Eastern religious and cultural practices such as Buddism and Yoga.
Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography, Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work, Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area which has High Holiday Services every year. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih
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