More than 6 million Jews are living in the United States, according to two independent studies. The two studies, using completely different methodology, discovered between 6.4 million and 6.6 million U.S. Jews, or about 1.8 percent of the population,...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 14, 2011
They come for the wedding. They come for the bar and bat mitzvah. They come for the High Holidays. But the question that troubles Rick Kodner doesn't revolve around lifecycle events. How do you get them to come the rest of the time? "What's happened is...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 30, 2011
It's growing or it's shrinking. It's aging or it's not. The different streams are gaining or they aren't. There is one thing everyone agrees on when it comes to demographic numbers that define the Jewish community.They are hard to find-and expensive to...
By David Baugher , Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 30, 2011
As Barry Rosenberg nurses a cup of coffee at a local café, the President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater St. Louis paints a picture of what many once thought was a typical Jewish home. "Most of our institutions were designed to serve what...
