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NY Jewish survey finds stable
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RE-ELECT YOUR WEST BLOOMFIELD
SUPERVISOR, DAVID FLAISHER

Getting the job done in West Bloomfield:

• New fire station and police addition

• Initiated hazardous waste pickup

• Installed new safety paths

• Increased number of police and fire fighters

• Proposed cost cuts to balance budget

• Partnered with county for infrastructure improvements

• New Henry Ford Hospital

Supervisor David Flaisher and Senator Carl Levin

David Flaisher is a member of Adat Shalom Synagogue. We support David Flaisher
because of his experience as the township supervisor and as a C.P.A. and former city
Auditor and because of his commitment to our residents:
Nelson Hersch,
Marcia Gershenson
Farm. Hills Mayor Vickie Barnett
School Board Member
and Mark Steckloff
Larry Kohler berg
Mark Davidoff
W.B. Trustee Stuart Brickner
Robert and Karen Spector

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Library Trustee Maxine Brickner

Jerry and Brenda Chudler

Oak Park Mayor Gerald Naftaly

Gene Farber

Howard Rosenberg

County Commissioner
Helaine Zack

Michael and Sarah Schwartz

Sandra and Stewart Shipper

Gerald and Debra Goldberg

Jerry and Rita Sukenic

Senator Gilda Jacobs

Susan and Steve Friedman

Robert Naftaly

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New York
ews who think New York is the
center of the world aren't that far
off— it's certainly the center of
the American Jewish world.
That's one of the findings that
emerges from the Jewish Community
Study of New York: 2002,, coordinated
by the UJA-Federation of New York and
released at the federation's offices Oct.
14.
Just how Jewish is New York? One out
of every eight people in the eight-county
New York metropolitan area identifies as
a Jew, in comparison with one in 50 in
the United States as a whole.
Despite Jewish migration to the. South
and West of the country, huge growth in
the Orthodox and Russian-speaking
communities has kept the number of
nearly 1.5 million Jews in New York sta-
ble over the past decade.
Given the wave of Jewish immigration
from the former Soviet Union over the
past decade, Russian-speaking Jews now
make up roughly one-quarter of New
York Jewry. In addition, the proportion
of Jews over 75 has more than doubled
to 11 percent since the last such survey,
in 1991.
Those factors, together with the large
number of Orthodox Jews in New York,
help account for a key finding of the sur-
vey. growing Jewish poverty, which has
climbed by 35 percent, at a time that
general poverty in the area has declined.
In fact, there are more poor Jews in
New York -- some 244,000 — than
there are Jews in all but the largest Jewish
communities elsewhere in America.
Bits and pieces of the survey already
had been released, but this was the first
time that the full report had been pre-
sented.
'All the major news is out," said Jacob
Ukeles, the survey's principal investigator.
"The critical question now is the extent
to which the community is going to uti-
lize the information. This is a tool."
Among the critical findings are:
• Elements of Jewish engagement:
Israel is a cornerstone for New York
Jews, with 92 percent calling the survival
of the State of Israel very important.
While 73 percent of New York Jews
attended a Jewish cultural event or a
JCC activity, only half of all households
are affiliated with a congregation or

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