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Canadian and American Jews as percentage of population by state/province | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 7,150,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York metropolitan area, Greater Los Angeles, Baltimore-Washington, Chicagoland, Cleveland, Miami, Philadelphia area, San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta Area, Greater Boston, Saint Louis Area | |
| 7,600,000[2] | |
| 300,000[3] | |
| Languages | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism (35% Reform, 18% Conservative, 10% Orthodox, 6% others, 30% Non-denomination), irreligious, atheists, etc.[4] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Israeli Americans | |
American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion or ethnicity.
American Jews Media
Eastern European Jewish immigrants arriving in New York
Winston Churchill and Bernard Baruch converse in the back seat of a car in front of Baruch's home.
The New York City metropolitan area is home to by far the largest Jewish American population.
Touro Synagogue (built in 1759), in Newport, Rhode Island, has the oldest still existing synagogue building in the United States.
Birkat Hachama of Conservative Jews, Encino, Los Angeles
US serviceman lighting a Menorah in observance of the first day of Hanukkah
References
- ↑ Sheskin, Dashefsky, Ira, Arnold. American Jewish Year Book 2020 The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899 (December 22, 2021)Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783030787059.
- ↑ Forman, Ethan. New Brandeis study estimates 7.6 million Jews living in U.S.. Jewish Journal. https://jewishjournal.org/2021/04/22/new-brandeis-study-estimates-7-6-million-jews-living-in-u-s/. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ↑ Harpaz, Yossi. REPORT ON CITIZENSHIP LAW: ISRAEL. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (June 2018). p. 10. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ↑ Israel versus the Jews. 7 July 2017. https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21724880-israeli-government-opens-rift-american-jews-over-prayer-rights-israel. Retrieved 9 July 2017.