JEWISH FAMILIES


• Approximately 5.5 million Americans identify themselves as Jewish (40% of the world’s Jewish population). About 1.7 million Americans are born Jews but do not practice their religion.
• 46% of American Jews are affiliated with a synagogue, yet many more practice their religion within their home and among family.
• Jews see themselves as coreligionists, part of a cultural-ethnic-national body bestowed by birth or conversion rather than by belief or practice.
• 75% of Jews live in large cities, mostly along the East and West Coasts of New York and California.
• American Jews are an aging population, with 23% above the age of 60.
• The 21st century Jew is in flux as attachment to community has weakened and Jews have become more autonomous, self-defining, and inward-looking.
• Not all Jews are liberal, affluent, and superior because of their achievements; they are hardly a homogeneous group whose behavior is predictable.......

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Title: Jewish Familes: An Outline
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