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U.S. National Reports and Presentations
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Measuring And Assessing the American Jewish Population
Measuring And Assessing the American Jewish Population by Dr. Ira Sheskin addresses issues of relevance to the American Jewish Committee as of June, 2008, including the demographics and religiosity of American Jews, attitudes of American Jews toward Israel, anti-Semitism, and politics.
Attitudes of American Jews Towards Israel
Attitudes of American Jews Towards Israel, is a slide-presentation by Dr. Ira Sheskin which examines attitudes across more than 50 local Jewish community studies completed since 1993 as well as the 2000-01 NJPS.
Intermarriage and Jewish Journeys in the United States
Intermarriage and Jewish Journeys in the United States, is a report of a study by Arnold Dashefsky, Director of the Data Bank, in collaboration with Zachary Heller, Associate Director of the National Center for Jewish Policy Studies at Hebrew College. This is an in-depth study of intermarried couples in four diverse metropolitan areas: Boston, St. Louis, Atlanta, and the Bay areas of San Francisco. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods, it seeks to probe the nature of the couples' relationship to Judaism and the Jewish community, by interviewing both Jewish and Christian partners.
The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life publication, "The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey," received considerable media attention in early 2008.
The summary of the study as well as a link to the complete report is available from the study page.
Young Jewish Adults in the United States Today
Young Jewish Adults in the United States Today. A Research Report for the American Jewish Committee, 2006 (PDF). Jacob B. Ukeles, Ron Miller, and Pearl Beck of Ukeles Associates, Inc. Report commissioned by the Research Department of the American Jewish Committee, which noted in its summary that: "The 1.46 million American Jews between the ages of 18 and 39 represent the future of the American Jewish community. This study summarizes existing knowledge about Gen X and Gen Y, and analyzes data from the National Jewish Population Study, the annual American Jewish Committee Surveys of American Jewish Opinion, and Ukeles Associates studies of local Jewish communities. Most important, it draws policy implications about how to engage this group in Jewish life on their own terms."
AJS Conference Presentations - 2006
In an historic session at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in San Diego, three principal investigators, Ron Miller, Bruce Phillips, and Ira Sheskin, who collectively are responsible for dozens of Jewish community studies now archived at the Mandell L. Berman Institute – North American Jewish Data Bank, presented the results of their recent work on Western Jewish communities, along with a paper on the overall view of Jews of the Western U.S. by Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz of the United Jewish Communities. The session was organized and chaired by Arnold Dashefsky, Data Bank Director and professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. The session was entitled “Cities of Silver and Gold: Is Urban Jewish Life in the Western U.S. a Harbinger of the Future of American Jewry?” Papers included the following:
Jewish Distinctiveness In America A Statistical Portrait
Jewish Distinctiveness In America: A Statistical Portrait, 2005 (PDF). Tom W. Smith. Report commissioned by the Research Department of the American Jewish Committee. The report looks across multiple studies and compares Jews to other ethnic groups in the United States. The study finds that Jews place high importance on seeking knowledge and individual freedom and choice. Also, Jews tend to be more liberal than others, have a more urban orientation, are more skeptical about the miltary, and tend to take a more nonpunitive approach to child-raising.
Get the Cold Hard Facts on Demographics
Get the Cold Hard Facts on Demographics (PDF). Ira Sheskin.
Slides presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Aging Services, February 2004. These slides summarize a series of age-related demographic analyses from Jewish population studies, using both NJPS (National Jewish Population Study) data and data from local Jewish community studies. The presentation is organized in terms of demography, geography, religion, marriage, membership, Jewish education, Jewish agencies, social service needs, Israel, anti-Semitism, Jewish media, philanthropy and politics.
Occasional Paper #5: Class of 1979 - The 'Acculturation' of Jewish Immigrants from the Soviet Union, 1990
Class of 1979: The 'Acculturation' of Jewish Immigrants from the Soviet Union (PDF), was written by Barry A. Kosmin as an occasional paper for the Data Bank in April, 1990. This report is based upon an October 1989 telephone survey of 391 interviews with immigrants from the former Soviet Union in six U.S. cities. It reviews how successfully respondents had been resettled in US cities, how they did economically, the ethnic composition of their community, Jewish education and Jewish affiliation patterns.
Jewish Identity in Canada and the United States, 1990-1991
Jewish Identity in Canada and The United States: 1990-1991 (PDF) was written by Barry A. Kosmin, and published in 1994. It provides a comparison of the Jewish populations of Cananda and the the United States using the 1990 NJPS and the Canadian Government Census of 1991. It concludes that the societal processes affecting Jews in both nations are similar and the gap is not as wide as some might have predicted.
A Handle on the Future: The Potential of the 1990 National Survey for American Jewry
A Handle of the Future- The Potential of the 1990 National Survey for American Jewry (PDF) is a collection of two papers, the first written by Sidney Goldstein on the 1990 NJPS: Why and How, and the second written by Steven Huberman on Jewish Megatrends- Planning for the Twenty-First Century. The first paper strongly suggests the need for a national study in addition to local community studies. The second paper argues for the need to plan for the twenty-first century in terms of creating solutions to promote affiliation, strengthen Jewish education, increase financial resources, expand the leadership base and reach out to those most physically at risk.
CJF Colloquium on Jewish Population Studies, 1984
The CJF Colloquium on Jewish Population Studies (PDF) occured in March, 1984. The goals for the colloquium were to heighten Jewish communal workers' understanding of the complexities of population studies; to explore how such studies can te related more effectively to planning and policy decision-making; to sensitize research specialists to the practical needs of Federations in the use of data in community planning and decision-making; To develop written materials that will serve as practical tools for planners in this area; to develop procedures for working cooperatively with other groups in this field; to establish a basis for comparable data sets to facilitate inter-community comparisons and to encourage higher standards of performance; and to clarify the direction for further CJF activity in this field.This document includes keynote papers and summaries and was edited by Jerry Winter and Lester Levin.
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