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igration to Israel is expected to
almost double the country's Jewish
population to 10 million by 2080.
Meanwhile, the number of Jews
living in the United States is expected to drop by a
third — to just 3.8 million. Worldwide, the num-
ber of Jews is estimated to rise slightly during the
next 80 years — eventually reaching 15 million.
These projections are at the core of a new demo-
graphic study of world Jewish population trends
that was published last week in the American Jewish
Yearbook 2000, produced by the American Jewish
Committee.
The article, "Prospecting the Jewish Future:
Population Projections, 2000-2080," predicts future
Jewish population trends throughout the world.
Based on existing data from studies commis-
sioned independently by world Jewish communi-
ties, the report was authored by a trio of leading
demographers from Hebrew University in
Jerusalem: Sergio DellaPergola, Uzi Rebhun and
Mark Tolts.
As early as 2010, Israel and the United States —
which currently is home to the largest number of Jews
— are expected to be equal in Jewish population.
By the middle of the century, Israel will be home to
a majority of the world's Jews, particularly Jewish
youth. An estimated 77 percent-86 percent of all Jews
under the age of 15 will live in Israel by the year 2080.
Meanwhile, the percentage of elderly Jews in the
diaspora will continue to increase, especially as baby
boomers reach age 65 over the next 20 years.
By 2080, more than 40 percent of all Jews living
outside Israel will be age 65 and over. This trend,
coupled with low fertility rates, likely will bring
about extinct Jewish communities in some coun-
tries, such as those in the former Soviet Union.
"The future demographic development of North
American Jewry will depend on the present genera-
tion's ability to transmit a Jewish identity to the
next," concluded the demographers in the study.
"This will depend on ongoing patterns of marriage
and child-rearing." ❑
— Gayle Horwitz/Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Yiddish Limericks

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For colds, I say old-fashioned's best.
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notables

"All the 'ologists' thought we'd run to California and jump off a
cliff when the Rebbe died, or shave off our beards, but they don't
understand the relationship."
— Rabbi Yosef Langer of San Francisco's Chabad center, on the vital-
ity of the Lubavitch movement more than five years after the death of
the revered Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

"Peace in which there is no discussion of Jerusalem is the peace of
ostriches in which you stand with your head in the sand."
— Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, speaking on Israel Radio
Monday as the Mideast peace talks broke down.

"We are not going to give up any inch or any grain of the sand of
our homeland, and we are not going to give up our right to holy
Jerusalem."
— Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, in a statement
insisting Israel must transfer control of all land it captured in 1967
to the Palestinians in any peace agreement.

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