When it comes to the Jewish community, does size really matter? It’s not a flip question. Many observers greet the high rates of intermarriage, low birthrates and widespread alienation from Jewish ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- The world's Jewish population has almost rebounded to pre-Holocaust numbers, according to a new report. The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) estimates there are ...

When it comes to Jewish number-crunchers, Ira Sheskin is the maven from Miami. Thanks to his research, we now know everything from the percentage of Jews in Dade County, Fla., who have mezuzahs on ...

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While researching his family tree, Brian Madigan of Locust Grove, Virginia, found something strange: Although his maternal great-great-grandfather had lived in ...

A new Canadian census that appears to show a significant decline in the number of Jews in Canada has experts divided over the significance of the figures. Statistics culled from Canada’s 2006 ...

Scholars at Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute have just unveiled their latest county-level estimates of the American Jewish population, which includes the first-ever look at ...

When members of the year-old Reform Communal Chevra Kadisha of New York complete their work preparing a Jewish body for burial, they take a few minutes to stand together around the closed coffin.

(RNS) The Jewish piece of the American religious pie is not shrinking as the Christian slice is, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. Isn’t that good news for a people who—for the past ...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – MARCH 20: Israeli medical worker holds a swab test for coronavirus at a drive-through site during a presntation for the press before opening on March 20, 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Unlike the Christian slice, the Jewish piece of the American religious pie is not shrinking, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. Isn’t that good news for a people who — for the past ...