Extensive Summary Report highlights major findings (see pages 72-89 of the Summary Report).
Report compares population estimates from 1982, 1990 and 2000 Greater Hartford Jewish community study - overall pattern appears to be growth from 1982 to 1990 and then decline from 1990 to 2000.
Intermarriage data in 2000: 24% of currently married couples are intermarried, 69% are two-born Jews inmarried, and 8% are conversionary in-marriages (one partner, now Jewish, was not born Jewish).
23% of people in Jewish households are at least age 65, compared to 22% who are children under age 18.
87% of all children in Jewish households are being raised as Jews, but only 59% in intermarried households.
Only 4% of respondents self-identify as Orthodox, 31% Conservative, 31% reform, 34% "Just Jewish."
79% of Jewish households always/usually light Chanukah candles; 78% always/usually attend a Passover seder; 26% always/usually light Sabbath candles; 17% keep a kosher home.
53% of households report synagogue/temple membership.
91% of Jewish households report a charitable donation in the year before the survey; 50% report donating to the Jewish Federation.
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2018 Community Comparisons Update.
NOTE: While the original 2000 Slide Set for Community Presentations (144 slides) is still available for downloading, it compares Hartford 2000 with community studies completed prior to the Hartford study.
In November 2018, Dr. Sheskin has provided an updated slide set (185 slides) with Hartford 2000 results compared to the results of studies in comparison communities that were completed since 2000; this updated slide set also has an added emphasis on the elderly.
A briefer (61 slide) community presentation only on the elderly was also added as of November, 2018.
Please note that many slides in the two 2018 presentations replicate similar findings.