No Jewish Child Left Behind

By George D. Hanus
Published on November 13, 2003

Amid the troubling statistics of the 2000 National Jewish Population Survey, there is one genuinely positive trend. The percentage of children in Jewish day schools is the highest it's ever been. Twenty-nine percent of Jewish children today have attended a day school at some point.

Many Jewish parents have recognized that a day school education can give their kids the strong identity and sense of rootedness that they need to navigate an increasingly complex world.

Population Study Poses New Challenges

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on October 10, 2002

America's Jewish population declined by 5 percent during the past 10 years, according to a new survey, a trend that is likely to continue given the community's aging population and low birth rates.

Safety in Numbers

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 10, 2002

The immediate effect of a new, painstaking, multiyear, $6 million population survey of American Jewry has been to convince Jewish professionals that whatever they've been doing is the best thing for American Jewry.

Pollsters in a Pickle

Published on June 4, 1998

There's going to be a national Jewish population survey in the year 2000, and it's got researchers in one heck of a pickle.

A Woman’s Voice

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on February 5, 1998

Stop the presses: The Jewish communityis ready to discover...singles. That's right. What intermarriage and"continuity" were to the 1990s, singles will be in the years ahead: agroup to study, court, serve and, finally, value.