About 267,000 Jews live in England and Wales, making them slightly less than 0.5 percent of the total population, according to 2001 census data released Thursday. However, researchers at London’s Institute for Jewish Policy Research said the figure might be as much as one-third too low because the religion question on the census was voluntary.
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