Jews constitute 18 percent of all residents of 22 countries composing the New York metropolitan area who are affiliated with churches and synagogues, it was reported here today by the Protestant Council of the City of New York, whose research department has conducted a study of church and synagogue affiliation in this region. Sources for figures on synagogue affiliation were the American Jewish Yearbook and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
In the five counties of New York City, Jews supplied 26.6 percent of the church and synagogue affiliated population. The percentage dropped off to 10.5 percent in the surrounding New Jersey counties, to eight percent in the nearby upstate New York counties and less than one percent in Fairfield County, Conn. Eighty percent of all synagogue-affiliated Jews in the metropolitan area lived within the boundaries of this city, according to the report.
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