Leading Jewish demographer disputes study of N.Y. Jews

Published on July 25, 2012

Len Saxe, a leading Jewish demographer, said a widely cited survey on New York Jewry overestimated the number of Orthodox Jews in the city and its environs.

Will your great-grandchildren be Jewish?

By Pini Herman
Published on June 27, 2012

The just-released Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 clearly shows that the Jewish population decline in New York has been stemmed by large numbers of babies born to Orthodox families in America. The heroic fertility and educational efforts of Orthodox Jews — sometimes to the point of actual impoverishment — is legendary. Ironically, it is historically the Conservative and Reform Jewish movements that have unintentionally benefited from this Orthodox Jewish investment.

Fewer in the Pews: Implications for American Liberalism

By Steven Windmueller
Published on March 18, 2012

Marriage, family pressure and Jewish geography

By Pini Herman
Published on March 14, 2012

What is the difference between a pit bull and a Jewish Mother? The pit bull eventually lets go.

One Serious Problem Gone

By David A. Lehrer
Published on February 1, 2012

The new face of Russian Jewry

By Lea Silverman
Published on May 27, 2004

When Tatyana Sharfman applied to immigrate to the United States, she was not yet sure that she wanted to leave her native country of Russia. Her aunt, who had left Russia in 1992 and now lives in the San Fernando Valley, was determined to bring over the rest of the family, and so Sharfman began to fill out the necessary documents.

"She kept asking us, 'What are you doing over there?'" Sharfman recalled. "We didn't take it seriously, really, but we filled out some papers just because we had these papers."

Sharfman knew that it was typically a long process to emigrate from Russia, and she did not really expect to be accepted. However, one day the approved documents were returned by the government, and her family faced a life-changing decision: "To come or not to come?"

Bad News: Things Are Fine

Published on December 30, 1999

A new study of national Jewish population trends was completed recently at the University of Miami, by one of the nation's leading experts in Jewish demography, and it's a bombshell.

Coming to Our Census

By Ruth Stroud
Published on July 2, 1998

For most of this century, Los Angeles has been a city of twoelites -- one predominately WASPish, the other predominately Jewish. Although they occasionally collaborated on projects such as the MusicCenter, the two worlds remained largely separate and indifferent toeach other, living in a ruling-class version of institutional apartheid.