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The American Jewish Yearbook population survey had placed the number of American Jews at 6.4 million, or approximately 2.1% of the total population. This figure is significantly higher than the previous large scale survey estimate, conducted by the 2000–2001 National Jewish Population estimates, which estimated 5.2 million Jews.
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism. A yeshiva usually is led by a rabbi with the title "Rosh Yeshiva" (Head of the Yeshiva).
Jewish American sympathies likewise broke along ethnic lines, with recently arrived Yiddish speaking Jews leaning towards support of Zionism, and the established German-American Jewish community largely opposed to it. In 1914–1916, there were few Jewish voices in favor of American entry into the war.
Jewish American people in politics by state (50 C) American rabbis by state (15 C) A. Jews from Alabama (1 C, 27 P) Jews from Alaska (1 C, 1 P) Jews from Arizona (1 C ...
Jewish-American history by state (3 C, 10 P) * American Jews by state or territory (52 C) American rabbis by state (15 C) A. Jews and Judaism in Alabama (4 C, 1 P)
The ancestry of most American Jews goes back to Ashkenazi Jewish communities that immigrated to the US in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as more recent influxes of Persian and other Mizrahi Jewish immigrants. The American Jewish community is considered to contain the highest percentage of mixed marriages between Jews and non ...
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History of the Jews in North America (6 C, 1 P) J. Jewish education in North America (2 C, 2 P) ... North American people of Jewish descent (12 C) R.