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By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on April 15, 2013

Jewish atheism and Jewish theism in America

By Roger Price
Published on April 12, 2013

Israel May Be Main Topic In Next National Jewish Population Survey of the U.S.

By Pini Herman
Published on March 14, 2013

Survey: 27 percent of Americans see God’s hand in sports

Published on January 29, 2013

Fewer than three in 10 Americans believe that God plays a role in determining sports outcomes, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.

World’s Happiness Rate

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on January 10, 2013

Survey: 69 percent of Florida Jews voting for Obama

Published on September 20, 2012

Sixty-nine percent of Florida Jews say they will likely vote for President Obama, as opposed to 25 percent for Republican nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new survey.

Who knows who L.A.'s Jews are?

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on July 25, 2012

Susan Goldberg, rabbi of Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock, grew up in nearby Echo Park. “There were no Jewish families around when I was growing up,” Goldberg, 38, said. Now that these neighborhoods are being gentrified, and a young, creative crowd is moving in, the Jews are coming, too.

Israelis divided on U.S. role in peace process, survey finds

Published on June 27, 2012

Israeli Jews have mixed feelings about the success of the role of the United States in the Middle East peace process, a survey found. According to the seventh annual B’nai B’rith World Center Survey on Contemporary Israeli Attitudes Toward Diaspora Jewry, one-third of the respondents said the U.S. had impeded the peace process over the past few years and another third said it had promoted progress. The other third did not know whether the U.S. had impeded or promoted progress.

Survey: Israel losing ground with Germans

Published on May 24, 2012

A new survey suggests that Germans have lost some love for Israel over the past three years.

Survey: Jewish voters want Obama back, see economy as top concern

Published on April 3, 2012

Jewish registered voters see the economy as the most important issue, and nearly two-thirds support President Barack Obama’s re-election, according to a new survey.

Evangelical Protestants sympathize with Israel, survey finds

Published on June 23, 2011

Evangelical Protestant leaders from around the world said they sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians, although a small majority said they sympathize with both sides equally, a survey found.

Meet with critical Jewish groups, Israelis tell survey

Published on June 22, 2011

A majority of Israelis believe that their government representatives should meet with Diaspora Jewish groups that criticize their policies, a new survey found.

New survey: U.S. has more Jews than believed

Published on December 21, 2010

The American Jewish population is larger than suspected, according to new estimates compiled by Brandeis University. The suburban Boston university’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute is estimating that there are some 6.5 million people in the United States who are either Jewish by religion or who self-identify as Jewish. The figure represents a 20 percent increase in the number of Jews since 1990. The numbers were drawn from a synthesis of data from more than 150 nationwide surveys conducted by the U.S. government and other agencies, as well as from national polling organizations.

Survey: U.S. Jews favor strike on Iran, denominations split on Obama

Published on September 30, 2009

A new survey shows that a majority of American Jews would support a U.S. military strike on Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons -- a significant increase from a year ago.

Standing in the polls

By Steve Greenberg
Published on June 19, 2008

Jewish researchers dispute some Pew religion survey data

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on February 28, 2008

American Jews are adopting and discarding their Jewish identities with increasing rapidity in a country that is becoming less white and less Christian, according to a new study of religious affiliation in the United States.But just hours after the study's publication Monday, Jewish demographers already were disputing some of the findings on Jews, contending that the sample is too small to draw meaningful conclusions.

New reports expose rampant anti-Semitic attacks in Western Europe

By Dinah Spritzer
Published on June 14, 2007

Anti-Semitism in Western Europe apparently is out of control.

Briefs: Survey to catalog landmark Boyle Heights buildings to prevent destruction; Chabad expands on West Coast

Published on March 8, 2007

Briefs

New study finds 1 million more Jews in U.S.

By Jacob Berkman
Published on March 1, 2007

A new study gives fairly concrete evidence that the American Jewish population could be more than 1 million people larger than believed -- but if so, it means efforts to engage them may have been less successful than the community realized.

Marriage Conversion Rate Proves Low

By Rachel Silverman
Published on June 1, 2006

Fewer than one-fifth of non-Jews who marry Jews convert to Judaism, according to a new study distributed by the American Jewish Committee.

Huizar Proposal Would Close Razing Loophole

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 22, 2006

An order to investigate the demolition of a historic Jewish Community Center (JCC) building in Boyle Heights is now on the agenda of the Los Angeles City Council.

Style and Substance

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 18, 2003

The National Jewish Population Survey, funded for $6 million by the federation umbrella group United Jewish Communities, reported that the nation's population of 5.2 million Jews represented a decline of 2 percent from the 1990 survey, which reported 5.5 million Jews.

There’s More to Us

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 5, 2003

All this week there's been some strange goings-on at the intersection of Us and Them.

Jewish Survey Missing Data

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on November 14, 2002

Stephen Hoffman said he only learned of the missing data Tuesday, one week before the information from the NJPS about Jewish identity and intermarriage was due to get released at the annual UJC gathering, which brings together much of the organized American Jewish world.

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.

Poll: College Kids Back Israel

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on August 22, 2002

U.S. college students back Israel over the Palestinians by a 4-1 margin, according to a new survey.

The mid-July survey of 300 students found that 43 percent of respondents called themselves supporters of Israel, while only 11 percent backed the Palestinians. Another 29 percent did not take either side in the conflict, however, and 10 percent said the United States should stand behind both sides equally, according to the poll taken by Washington pollster Stanley Greenberg.

Surveying ‘America’s Jewish Freshmen’

By Rachel Brand
Published on August 22, 2002

When Adam Bergman researched colleges toward the end of his senior year at Milken High School, he looked very closely at the quality of their soccer teams and not so closely at the size of their Jewish populations.

Courting the 5th District

By Mike Levy
Published on May 24, 2001

Jews may provide the swing vote in next week's tight race for the City Council's 5th District between the well-known Tom Hayden and newcomer Jack Weiss.

Intermarriage:

Published on November 23, 2000

In September, vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman came under fire from many Jewish organizations for telling a radio talk show host that there is no Jewish prohibition against intermarriage.But according to a survey released this week, Lieberman's comments reflect the beliefs of the majority of American Jews. In short, according to the survey, "the Jewish taboo on mixed marriage has clearly collapsed."

Flawed Methodology

By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Published on September 14, 2000

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see why the Orthodox were seriously undercounted.

We Jews are eJews

Published on August 24, 2000

If you can read this, you can Web surf. That's the conclusion of a recent survey conducted by Mediamark Research, Inc., for the Joseph Jacobs Organization's Jewish Publications Network. The survey found that people who read Jewish newspapers (that's you, now) are more likely than not to own a computer and surf the Web. Here's the facts:By the way, you can read this same story online at our Web site: www. jewishjournal.com.

Stopping the Violence

By Michael Aushenker
Published on March 23, 2000

It's no secret that Israelis experience many of the same social ills that Americans do. However, there has never been an official study to identify the breadth and nature of domestic abuse in the Jewish State... until now.

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.

Spin Cycle

Published on March 26, 1998

A spate of new polls shows Jews divided, Arafat unpopular and pollsters getting rich

Up Front

Published on February 12, 1998

Up Front