What've happened to a Jewish population of New York?

Question

In 1960's there were over 2 million Jewish people residing in New York. Nowdays, just 1 million. As I've noticed, Jewish families have, at least, three children. The population is supposed to be, at least, 4 million. Where have everybody beign disappeared?

Answer 1

Many went to live in Israel.

Answer 2

actually the average American Jewish family has less than two children, add assimilation into the mix and you have a decreasing Jewish population.

New York though is a different story, many people are moving out of the city due to the high costs of living, if you look at the suburbs around New York you will see a overflowing Jewish population.

Answer 3

First of all, that's an extremely loaded question. By whose count are you determining the population? And I'm assuming you're refering to NYC.

Anyway, since the WAY Jews are counted is still in debate, it's difficult to answer the question in a straight forward manner. For instance, who are we counting as a Jew? Does one only have to identify himself as a Jew to be a Jew? What about halakhic (according to Jewish Law) Jews? Are they the only ones being counted? And what if someone marries outside the religion? Are they still counted?

While it's true that many Jews are emigrating to Israel, mostly the drop in population is due to the controversy over how to count Jews in general. Many people believe that if you marry out of the religion, then you are no longer counted. And if you're a man marrying out and have children then according to Jewish Code of Law, the children are not Jewish. That type of counting would impose an enormous drop in the population since Jews are assimilating more and more into American society and relative moralism has become the new religion.

In the 90's, the methods for counting Jews changed drastically and that would probably explain the tremendous drop in "population."

A fascinating question, indeed, which really just boils down to how to count Jews in general.

My source of information about the Jewish population count in the US is "The Jerusalem Report," Volume XVII No. 23.

Answer 4

The most recent large scale population survey, released in the 2006 'American Jewish Yearbook population survey,' states that there are 1,750,000 Jewish people living in New York.

It's the largest Jewish population center anywhere in the world other than Tel Aviv.

Answer 5

Check the Jewish Populations of Miami and Phoenix. I think you'll find your missing Jews there. Upon leaving Hungary, my Grandma's brother went to Montevideo in Uraguay instead of New York. I think some second generation members of my family went down there to join that half of the family. My father's family Moved west to LA. New York was an entrepoint, and I guess some of us still like wandering in deserts or other warm places.

Answer 6

back in 1960 maximum Jews married Jews, because anti-Semitism replaced into in outcome. I bear in options seeing indicators in between the vast apple museum that suggested, "No Jews, blacks or dogs allowed." considering that, overdue 60's and 70's a lot of Jews were given major breaks and soon began to assimilate. The Jewish numbers have decreased for a number of motives: in the starting up, because of assimilation (a lot of Jews are married to non-Jews); secondly, many Jews those days are liberals and do not want to have young ones; thirdly, the Jews who do have young ones oftentimes do no longer grant them with a Jewish preparation that the youngster ought to ought to stay Jewish and so he/she finally ends up being married to a goy. we do not favor Nazis to annihilate the Jews we are doing it on our own. Assimilation is the worst issue for the Jews. the in undemanding words branch it truly is popping out to be is the Orthodox branch.

Answer 7

Some of their children also do not self-identify with Judaism. There are still many who have Hebrew heritage, just not Jewish religion.