News & Events

Data Bank Continues Berman Summer Research Fellowships for 2010

Thanks to the generosity of Bill Berman, founder of the North American Jewish Data Bank, we are continuing a sponsored program of summer research fellowships, which will offer a stipend of $1,800. For more information please see our Summer Research Fellowship flyer (PDF).

AJS Conference Presentations - 2009

We have archived and posted two presentations from the 2009 Association for Jewish Studies conference in a Data Bank-sponsored session titled "Measuring Identity and Religiosity Among American Jews: Demographic and Sociological Implications from National and Local Community Studies." The slide presentations have been posted by the authors and the Data Bank in order to allow researchers who could not attend the conference to see the materials. The presentations should be viewed as works in progress. We anticipate that the authors may revise the presentations in the near future, perhaps for journal publication.

• How NOT to Do Jewish Population Studies: or, Jewish Population Studies for Dummies (PDF) by Dr. Ron Miller
• Temporaral Changes in Basic Measures of Demography and Religiosity in the Results of Local Jewish Community Studies (PDF) by Dr. Ira Sheskin

The Impact of Geographic Mobility on the Jewish Community 2009

The Impact of Geographic Mobility on the Jewish Community 2009 by Sid Groeneman and Tom W. Smith of the The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC), presents the results of secondary analyses of three sources of data on the American Jewish community. The analyses were designed to understand the impact of the mobility of Jewish persons and Jewish households on the fabric of Jewish life.

Jewish Population Survey of Congressional Districts: 2000 and 2006

Jewish Population Survey of Congressional Districts: 2000 and 2006 by Dr. David Paul, reviews data estimates of the Jewish population for each congressional district for 2000 and 2006 Congresses. The study record includes a main report with a summary of findings for 2000 and 2006 as well as a basic introduction to the analytical process used. There are also six supplemental spreadsheets of data available for download. .

Article from Dr. Ira Sheskin on Using Local Jewish Community Studies as Planning tools

Dr. Ira Sheskin has written an article on using Local Jewish Community studies as planning tools for the American Jewish Community. For the full article, please see the full article on the JCPA website.

Data Bank Bulletin

The sixth issue of the Data Bank Bulletin (PDF) was made available in March, 2009. Older bulletins include August, 2008, March, 2007, Aug, 2006, Dec, 2005, and June, 2005.