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yeshivah. By comparison, only 12 per-
cent of 35- to 44-year-olds and 10
percent of older Jews say they had a
day school education.
• As for more informal Jewish
schooling, 23 percent of children ages
3 to 17 attended a Jewish day camp
in the year before the survey was
taken, between August 2000 and
2001; 19 percent of those aged 8 to
17 went to a Jewish sleepover camp
in the previous year; and 46 percent
of those aged 12 to 17 participated in
Jewish activities or organized youth
groups in that period.
• Among current college and gradu-
ate students, 41 percent reported tak-
ing a Jewish studies course, while only
11 percent of those 55 and older did
so; 28 percent of those between 35
and 54 attended such courses; and 37
percent of those under age 35 took a
college-level Jewish studies class.
Elderly, Poor, Immigrants
• Nearly one-fifth of the total Jewish
population is considered elderly (65
and older), with 9 percent age 75 or
older. Fifty-four percent of the elderly
are women.
• One third of elderly Jews live
alone, with 67 percent being widows
or widowers. More than one-third
report their health is poor or fair, three
times the rate of those under 65.
Because the 1990 NJPS did not track
poverty levels, the study could not spot
any trends. It did, however, find that:
• Nine percent of the Jewish elderly
live in households below the federally
defined poverty line; 18 percent of the
elderly live in households with
incomes of less than $15,000; and 43
percent of the elderly claim total assets
of $250,000 or more.
• Nearly 8 percent of all American
Jews immigrated to the United States
since 1980, amounting to 335,000
people. Of these, 227,000 — or
slightly more than two-thirds — came
from the former Soviet Union (FSU).
The remaining immigrants came from
30 other countries, with those from
Canada, Iran and Israel accounting for
more than half of those 109,000.
• Ninety-one percent of immigrants
from the FSU were married to other
Jews. The NJPS was based on inter-
views with 4,523 people, who repre-
sented a 28-percent response rate from
all those contacted. NJPS officials said
that rate fell within industry standards
considering such technological hurdles
as caller identification and cellphone
use. NJPS contained an overall margin
of error of plus or minus 2 percent.
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