Posts Tagged: Pew survey
Pew and the Jews, Part 2: Experts Say Leveraging Poll Data Trumps Numbers
JNS.org - Since the Pew Research Center released its U.S. Religious Landscape Study in May, most discussion of its findings has been quickly drowned out by other news....
Pew Survey: Judaism Rises With Christianity’s Decline, But Not as Fast as Islam
JNS.org - The Pew Research Center's newly released 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study revealed that while the Jewish population in the U.S. increased by 0.2%...
Survey: Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals Are Most Well-Liked Religious Groups in America
JNS.org - Jews, Catholics, and Evangelical Christians are the most warmly regarded religious groups in America, while Muslims and Atheists are viewed the least...
After Pew Pessimism, is ‘JOFEE’ the New Acronym for the Jewish Future?
JNS.org - More than five months after the Pew Research Center's "A Portrait of Jewish Americans" survey drew widespread pessimism over rising intermarriage and...
Pew Study: Harassment and Hostility Towards Religion Increasing Worldwide
JNS.org - Harassment and hostility towards religion has increased worldwide, with Jews and Christians seeing an increase in the number of countries where they...
Is Jewish Life in the Diaspora Coming to an End?
The recent Pew Research Center survey of American Jews has ignited discussions extending from gloomy predictions of the inevitable demise of Diaspora Jewry by assimilation...
What Does it Mean to Be Jewish?
As recent surveys reveal a disturbingly large number of American Jews—millions, in fact—who feel disconnected from their Jewish identity, allow me to share what being...
The Growing Extremism of Reform Leader Eric Yoffie
Rabbi Eric Yoffie is one of those courageous souls, prepared to throw stones while living in a glass house. Not content to criticize the Chabad...
Pew Jews: The Future of American Judaism
Oh, dear. American Jewish poobahs are all upset by a Pew Foundation survey that "discovered" that the intermarriage rate in the USA is at 58...
Why is the Upper West Side JCC Supporting Israel’s Enemies?
While the results of the recently published Pew Survey on American Jews were terrifying for many in our community, apparently the Jewish Community Center on...
American Jews Should Focus Less on Israel and More on Judaism
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, one of the greatest Zionist leaders ever, once wrote an essay entitled "Without Patriotism," which he headed with a quote: "Have pity on...
Three Ways to Save American Jewry From Extinction
By now you've heard about the Pew Research poll, published this week, which concludes that American Jewry is on its way to oblivion. No need...
Analyzing the New Report on Trends in American Judaism
JNS.org - New reports from the Pew Research Center and Brandeis University's Steinhardt Social Research Institute (SSRI) estimate the Jewish population of the United...