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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Two studies put U.S. Jewish census at up to 6.6 million

JTAPublished January 17, 2012

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,...

Jewish demographics: Numbers prove elusive

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished 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...

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