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From: mab@hou4a.UUCP (Michael Brochstein)
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Subject: Re: Knesset votes on 'Who is a Jew?'
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 08:52:19 EST
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>Only 20 to 25 percent of Israel's 3 million Jews are Orthodox, as are about
>half of the 6 million Jews in the United States.

	The numbers that I last saw (in 1979) said that one out of every three
Jews in the US are affiliated with synagogues.  Out of that one-third ( I 
believe the other two-thirds are mostly assimilated), I seem to recall that
57% were members of Conservative synagogues with Orthodox and Reform 
synagogues splitting the rest.  I can't remember the exact percentages for
these two but I beleive the Reform movement had about 25% and Orthodox 15%.

	If these numbers are just roughly close then the Orthodox part
of the Jewish community in the US is about 5% (300K) and not three million as 
inferred in the UPI article.

	Does anyone have more up to date figures than mine?

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