Demographics

European intellectuals launch magazine on European Jewry’s population ‘crisis’

Among its first items is a sober reading of a study that it says shows how Jewish demography on the continent has shrunk to its Middle-Ages level.

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 23, 2021 6:00 pm

The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.

Rising rates of intermarriage, a low reproductive rate and high levels of anti-Semitism are chipping away at the continent’s Jewish population, a landmark demographic study has found.

October 21, 2020 6:59 pm

Ideas

To accurately count Jews of color, we need to radically change our assumptions about Jews

To center Jews of color in history demands that scholars ask important new questions, writes the author of “Black Power, Jewish Politics.”

May 20, 2020 3:41 pm

The kids are all right-wing: How Israel’s younger voters have grown more conservative over time

By Laura E. Adkins and Ben Sales April 10, 2019 5:47 pm

Ideas

We have seen the future, and it looks Orthodox

By Lawrence Grossman September 18, 2017 12:22 pm

Israeli population 10 times larger than at state’s founding

May 10, 2016 5:05 pm

Pew: 48 percent of Israeli Jews want Arabs out of country

By Ben Sales March 8, 2016 6:10 am

Leading Jewish demographer disputes study of N.Y. Jews

By Ben Sales July 25, 2012 11:13 am

Chicago Jewish population sees 8 percent growth

By Dan Klein July 19, 2011 3:33 pm

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