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Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete. In particular, it excludes many Jewish-majority cities in Israel. Many of the U.S. cities have their data sourced from the Jewish Data Bank, which records population statistics for service areas that encompass many counties in a metropolitan area.
In 2020, the Pew Research Center's Jewish Americans 2020 study estimated there were 5.8 million adult Jews in the United States and 1.8 million children of at least one Jewish parent being raised as Jewish in some way, for a total of 7.5 million Jews, 2.5% of the national population. [29]
There were about four million adherents of Judaism in the US as of 2001, approximately 1.4% of the US population. According to the Jewish Agency, for the year 2023 Israel was home to 7.2 million Jews (46% of the world's Jewish population), while the United States contained 6.3 million (40.1%). [67]
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).
List of Jewish communities by country, including synagogues, organizations, yeshivas and congregations. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( December 2014 )
That's due to general population loss over the intervening decades and the fact that the Jewish communities were small to begin with — never more than 3% of a town's total population — so ...
Pre-Holocaust Jewish population Notes Yiddish Latin Ananiv: אנאניעװ Ananyev City survived. Bibrka: בוברקא Bubrka 2,000 (1941) City survived. Belz: בעלז Belz 3,600 (1914) City survived. Berdychiv: בארדיטשעװ Barditshev 41,617 (1897) City survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated. Berehove: בערעגסאז Beregsaz ...
Based on the results of the 2000-01 survey, the total Jewish population in the United States was estimated at 5.2 million, comprising 4.1 million adults and 1 million children. An additional 100,000 Jews in institutional settings were not sampled as part of NJPS but are included in the total.