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February 22 2007
Jewish Home &A
new study gives fairly
concrete evidence that
the American Jewish
population could be more than 1
million people larger than believed
— but if so, it
means efforts to
engage them may
have been less
successful than
the community
realized.
The United
Jewish
Leonard Saxe
Communities'
National Jewish
Population Survey 2000-01 (NJPS)
was widely viewed as flawed. Still,
the Jewish community held to the
survey's estimate that there were
5.2 million American Jews.
But even using the same criteria
as UJC did to define who is Jewish,
it's more likely that there are 6 mil-
lion to 6.4 million American Jews,
according to a report released last
week by a team of sociologists at
the Steinhardt Social Research
Institute at Brandeis University in
Waltham, Mass.
If a broader definition of
Jewishness is used, the number
could be as high as 7.4 million,
according to Leonard Saxe, a
Brandeis professor and head of
the Steinhardt center, who led the
report. Saxe's study suggests a
larger, more diverse and less affili-
ated community than did the NJPS.
The two surveys present very
different narratives, Saxe said.
The difference, he says, can be
seen in the opening chapters of
Scott Shay's new book, Getting
our Groove Back: How to Energize
American Jewry. Drawing on the
NJPS results, the opening chapters
paint American Jewry as a melting
ice cube.
But the U.S. Jewish population is
actually growing, Saxe says. That
implies two very different motives