This city’s Jewish population is now second only to New York’s, a survey conducted by the Jewish Community Council revealed today. There are now 323,000 Jews here, the survey establishes.
The majority of recent arrivals came from New York and Chicago, mostly in 1945-46, the survey shows. It also reveals that less than one out of three Jewish children between the ages of five and fourteen receive a Jewish education of any sort. Attendance is increasing in Sunday schools, while it is declining in Jewish daily schools.
“There are indications that from five to eight percent of our adult Jewish population take marriage partners of another faith, ” the survey stresses.
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