At the beginning of 2020, the world’s Jewish population was estimated at 14,787,200—an increase of 92,400 (0.63%) over the 2019 revised estimate of 14,694,800. The world’s total population increased by 0.92% in 2019. The rate of increase of world...
1. Previous estimates, as of January 1, 2010, were published by this author inWorld Jewish Population, 2010,Current Jewish Population Reports, Report 2010-2 (Storrs, CT, The North American Jewish Data Bank, the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, and The Jewish Federations o...
About 40% of Boyle Heights’ population was Jewish through the 1920s and ’30s, according to theLos Angeles Conservancy. While more upwardly mobile Jews established themselves in Hollywood and the Westside before World War II, the Jewish community in Boyle Heights was made up of mostly working-...
[caption id="attachment_64020" align="alignleft" width="312"] How does the Jewish population compare to others in this region? Image courtesy SSRI[/caption] The Steinhardt Social Reseach Institute (SSRI) and Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Bran
” On October 18, almost 800 scholars, lawyers and practitionerscalled on“all relevant UN bodies…as well as the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to immediately intervene…to protect the Palestinian population from genocide.” More recently, Omer Bartov, a respected ...
"Here in Beverly Hills, we do have a large Jewish population and so, unfortunately, we have been the target in the past for hate speech directed against Jews, and so it is something that we care about deeply and something that we won't tolerate," ...
Metropolitan Tel Aviv, with 2.5 million Jews, is the world's largest Jewish city. It is followed by New York, with 1.9 million, Haifa 655,000, Los Angeles 621,000, Jerusalem 570,000, and southeast Florida 514,000. In 2001, 8 countries had a Jewish population of 100,000 or more; ano...
Byron Bay is located at Australia's most eastern point, and boasts a population of almost 29,000. Renowned for its great weather and stunning beaches, Byron Bay is a popular tourist destination. Each year, hundreds of Israeli backpackers unite with throngs of locals, to celebrate their freedom...
TEENAGE YEARS Growing up, I knew nothing about Jesus. I had received no Christian testimony or witness whatsoever in my life. When I was in seventh grade, my family moved to a very wealthy area of Cleveland called Pepper Pike that had a large Jewish population, but it wasn’t entirely Je...
Rodan Schuldt, president and CEO of the Rodan Family Foundation, grew up in San Francisco and moved to Los Angeles two years ago with her family. Her move sparked the idea to expand EarlyJ to L.A., a city with the second-largest Jewish population in the U.S. after New York. EarlyJ...