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Canadian Jew Is Chief Justice
TORONTO (JTA) — Bora
Laskin, 61, has been named
chief justice of Canada, the
first Jew to hold such a high
judicial position.
A student of Felix Frank-
`– furter at Harvard Law School,
Justice Laskin is known as a
liberal and an advocate of
human rights. He taught at
, the Toronto Law University
and was the first Jewish
member of the Canadian Su-
preme Court in. 1970.
Born in Thunderbay, On-
tario, he was chairman of the
legal committee of the Can-
adian Jewish Congress, pres-
ident of the Toronto chapter
of the Friends of the Hebrew
University and a board mem-
ber of Holy Blossom. Temple.
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COMMUNAL TRENDS: Is the Jewish population in the
United
States increasing or declining? For some unknown
JERUSALEM ( J T A ) —
Some 54,000 immigrants will reason — maybe because the number of Jewish births
have arrived in Israel by the has fallen in the last few years — the prevailing opinion
end of the year, slightly less is, that the Jewish population in this country has stopped
than the 56,000 that arrived growing. This is not so. A look into the American Jewish
Yearbook for the last years shows that the number of
last year.
Jews is now about a quarter of a million larger than five
years ago. In 1968, the estimate was that there are 5,869,000
Jews in the U.S. and in 1971 the estimate exceeded 6,060,000.
Today there are approximately 6,115,000 Jews in this coun-
try — the largest figure in American Jewish history.
There is, however, a marked difference in the per-
centage which the Jews constituted within the total popu-
lation a few years ago and the percentage they constitute
today. While at one time the Jews were close to 4 per cent
of the entire population, today they are less than 3 per cent. •
This is due primarily to the fact that the population in
has grown in a proportion larger than the Jews.
Featuring Daily Double general
Considering that there has been no Jewish immigration to
2 Perfectas • 2 Trifectas this country to speak of for many years, and that there
are today more Jews in the U.S. than ever before, the
"WINE & DINE IN MICHIGAN'S NEWEST ULTRA MODERN CLUBHOUSE. assumption that the Jewish community is decreasing — or
& GRANDSTAND WITH YEAR 'ROUND CLIMATIC CONTROL"
is static — seems to have no basis in fact.
The disturbing factor with regard to the total Jewish
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population in this country is not its alleged decrease but
Post Time 8 P.M. • 10 RACES NIGHTLY its present composition. As years proceed, the number of
Jews over 65 years of age is constantly growing because of
increased longevity. At the same time the number of
younger Jews — except children till the age of 4 and
middle-aged persons from 30-64 — is going down. According
to the national Jewish population study of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, this trend will
continue for about 20 years.
Today, Jews of 65 and over constitute 12 per cent of
the total Jewish population, which means that one out of nine
Jews is over 65 years old. In 20 years from now — the
CJFWF study estimates — there will be one out of six
Jews in that age category.
On the other hand, the same study predicts that Jews
between 30-64 years of age — who now are 42 per cent of
the total Jewish population — will constitute more than 46
per cent 20 years from now. A sharp reduction of more
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than 6 per cent will at the same time be noticed among
Jews in the 19-29 bracket, and a reduction of about 3
per cent will be felt among youngsters aged 5-14.
The proportion of those in the 30-64 years age-span
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FANTASY represents that segment of the Jewish population which, in
the main, provides community leadership.
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DISTURBING DATA: Organized Jewish communities
STAGE!
are realizing that the problem of Jewish againg may be-
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come one of the most urgent problems they will be facing.
COME TO
Presents An ATOM First
Jews of 65 and over, although consisting now 12 per cent
NEVER
of the total Jewish population, head 21 per cent of Jewish
NEVER .
households.
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The problem for the Jewish communities lies in the
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crucial fact that 44 per cent of all households headed by
DREAMS
persons of 65 years of age or older have reported their
ARE
income as being under $4,000 a year, which is below the
BORN!
poverty level. Twenty-five per cent of them are one-person
A FAMILY CLASSIC
households and another 17 per cent include only the head
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of the household and the spouse. Their income comes basi-
cally from social security. Jewish communities have found
that this group requires a broad range of services.
Next in the line of the Jewish households in poverty are
13 per cent of all the aged Jewish families who live in
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"marginal poverty." They have reported an income from
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$4,000 to $6,000. On the other end of the income scale are
26 per cent of Jewish households with heads of 65 years
and over who have an income of $12,000 and over.
In this connection it is interesting to note that rhe
majority heads of household aged 65-69 — about 59 per cent
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— are American-born. In the age category of 70 years and
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over the majority are foreign-born. But even in this category
there are heads of households who are first, second and even
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third generation American-born.
THE RELIGIOUS FRONT: Much speculation has been
going on for years on the status of religion within the
Jewish population. Exaggerated claims on synagogue affilia-
tion has been made by all three branches of the Jewish
religious movement in this country — the Reform, Con-
CLUBS, ORGANIZATIONS, SERVICE GROUPS,
servative and Orthodox. A clear picture on congregational
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membership has now been brought out by the CJFWF study.
It shows that more than 53 per cent of all Jewish house-
holds are not affiliated with congregations. This is a figure
speaks for itself.
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data indicate that in families where the head
is under 30 years of age the non-affiliation reaches almost
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about 57 per cent who are not members of synagogues.
For persons of 60-69 years of age, 49 per cent hold no
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Each successively younger age . group — the study find-
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larger proportion of Conservative and Reform affiliation.
Among those holding congregational membership, more
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