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From: megann@ihuxi.UUCP (Meg McRoberts)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: % of "non-religious" jews
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 01:55:40 EDT
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> sam@bu-cs.UUCP (Shelli Meyers) writes:
> 
> >You have mentioned that there are "non-religious" Jews, who still consider
> >themselves Jews.  Perhaps this is so, but they are definitely a minority.

somewhere i saw the statistic that more than 50% of the people in
the united states who consider themselves jewish are affiliated with
a synagogue at all -- orthodox, reform, conservative, reconstructionist,
anything.  granted that "religious" is not synonymous with "affiliated
with a synagogue" but given the number of people who are affiliated with
a synagogue and seem to be much more secular jews than religious jews,
i would hesitate to say that the "non-religious" jews are a clear
minority.  unless, of course, one considers gastronomic judaism
a form of religious judaism. . . [  :-)  ]

meg mcroberts
{...}ihuxi!megann
at&t bell laboratories
naperville, illinois