American Jews

American Jews
Total population
North American Jews as % of population by state/province
6,829,000–7,160,000 1.7–2.6% of total U.S. population, 2012^[1] Enlarged population (includes full or partial Jewish ancestry) 8,000,000–10,000,000
Regions with significant populations
New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore–Washington
United States	5.4–8.3 million
Israel	170,000^[2]
Languages
American English Yiddish Hebrew
Religion
Judaism (35% Reform, 18% Conservative, 10% Orthodox, 6% others, 30% Non-denomination)^[3]

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who were Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationally.

References[change | change source]

↑ 2012 U.S. Census Bureau estimate
↑ Maltz, Judy (August 27, 2015). "60,000 American Jews Live in the West Bank, New Study Reveals". Haaretz. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
↑ "Israel versus the Jews". The Economist. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.

Jewish life in the United States

Major communal organizations

Major Federal liaisons
and policy organizations
not focused exclusively on Israel

Major foreign assistance organizations

Major Israel policy, education, and
outreach organizations

Major domestic and neighborhood
assistance organizations

Major religious movement organizations
(and associated rabbinical membership
and policy body; seminary)

Major youth groups

Religious education

Major college organizations and
Jewish fraternities

Organizations	Chabad on Campus Hillel KESHER (defunct) Masorti on Campus Orthodox student groups
Fraternities & Sororities	Alpha Epsilon Pi Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi (Historically Jewish: Sigma Alpha Mu Alpha Epsilon Phi Sigma Delta Tau Tau Delta Phi Tau Epsilon Phi Zeta Beta Tau)

Media

Newspapers and wires	Algemeiner Journal Baltimore Jewish Times Charlotte Jewish News Cleveland Jewish News Hamodia The Jewish Advocate (Bost.) The Jewish Daily Forward (N.Y.) The Jewish Exponent (Phila.) The Jewish Journal (L.A.) The Jewish Ledger (Conn.) Jewish News of Greater Phoenix The Jewish Press (N.Y.) Jewish Standard (N.J.) Jewish Telegraphic Agency The Jewish Week (N.Y.) JWeekly (S.F.) New Jersey Jewish News St. Louis Jewish Light Washington Jewish Week Yated Ne'eman Der Yid Der Blatt Di Tzeitung
Magazines	Ami Binah Commentary Emunah Magazine Jewish Currents Jewish Sports Review Jewish World Review Lilith Mishpacha Moment Tablet Tikkun We Are In America
Television	Jewish Broadcasting Service Jewish Life Television (JLTV) National Jewish Television The Jewish Channel
Blogs & Websites	AskMoses.com Chabad.org Heeb Jewcy Jewish Virtual Library Tablet Magazine Vos Iz Neias? Yeshiva.co Yeshiva World News

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Religion	Buddhists Christians Catholics Coptic Protestants Hindus Jainism Jews Muslims Neopagans Non-religious Sikhs
Race and ethnicity	People of the United States / Americans American ethnicity Maps of American ancestries 2010 Census Race and ethnicity in the Census Race and ethnicity in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Racism African immigrants to the United States Central Africans in the United States Horn Africans in the United States North Africans in the United States Southeast Africans in the United States Southern Africans in the United States West Africans in the United States White Americans: European Americans Basque Americans English Americans French Americans German Americans Irish Americans Italian Americans Euro Oceanic American Australian American New Zealand American Middle Eastern Americans Arab Americans Iranian Americans Israeli Americans Non-Hispanic whites White Hispanic and Latino Americans Afro-American peoples of the Americas African Americans Afro-Caribbean / West Indian Americans Black Hispanic and Latino Americans Asian Americans Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans Chinese Americans Filipino Americans Indian Americans Japanese Americans Pakistani Americans Vietnamese Americans Americans from other parts of the Americas: Canadian Belizean American Guyanese American Hispanic and Latino Americans Colombian Americans Cuban Americans Mexican Americans Puerto Ricans (Stateside) Native Americans and Alaska Natives Oceanian American: Euro Oceanic and Pacific Islands Americans Chamorro Americans Native Hawaiians Samoan Americans Tongan Americans Other ethnic groups Melungeon Romani people Multiracial Americans

v t e Middle Eastern Americans
Afghan¹ Pashtun Arab Emirati Egyptian Iraqi Jordanian Kuwaiti Lebanese Omani Palestinian Saudi Syrian Yemeni Armenian Assyrian Azerbaijani Coptic Georgian Iranian Israeli Kurdish Yazidis Turkish
Notes ¹ The U.S. Census Bureau considers Afghanistan a South Asian country, but does not classify Afghan Americans as Asian,^[1] but as Middle Eastern American.^[2]

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