Posted on 09/30/2013 10:35:51 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
ews in the United States are overwhelmingly proud to be Jewish, yet nearly one in five of them describe themselves as having no religion, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday.
The gap is generational, with 32 percent of Jews born after 1980 identifying as Jewish on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity or culture – compared with 93 percent of Jews born in 1914-27 who identified on the basis of their faith.
"This shift in Jewish self-identification reflects broader changes in the US public," said Pew's Religion and Public Life Project in a summary of its 210-page report.
"Americans as a whole – not just Jews – increasingly eschew any religious affiliation," with 22 percent of all Americans identifying with no particular faith, it said.
Nevertheless, 94 percent of respondents said they were proud to be Jewish, while seven out of 10 felt either very attached or somewhat attached to Israel, a proportion essentially unchanged since the turn of the 21st century, Pew said.
Forty percent believe that the land of Israel was “given to the Jewish people by God,” ....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
How many Jews (or anyone else, for that matter) born from 1914 to 1927 are still with us?
Poor Arabs. Only 99.995% of the territory in the Middle-East, and so little place to find shelter.
Snark...
I don’t know. None at my house...
Stupid Jews.
And 100% of liberals want to give it away.
It’s not enough. We want Israel, Spain and Southern France back, and reparations from Richard Couer de Lion’s descendants.
Sad but true...
I thought Israel was a man who had 12 sons (tribes) and were given land wherein the southern end was give to Son Judah and Son Benjamin. The 10 other brothers were given the “northern” area after a split between the brothers.
I think they all were called Israelites.
Simplistic?
Now I have heard of a new jerUSAlem that became as a harlot who will be judged because she went whoring after other gods.
What happened to Judah and Benjamin? Babylonian captivity.
10 other brothers? Assyrian captivity.
All scattered to the four corners of the earth?
That this number isn’t at least twice this, at 80%, is shameful.
What is the connection? My mom was born in 1925 and thank G-d she is still kicking, still driving too!
AND WELL OVER 50% OF AMERICAN JEWS GAVE AMERICA TO THE FASCIST DEMOCRATS.....
If the Erf is round, as so many claim, how can there be corners? And where, exactly, are these corners?
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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G_d will forget those who forget Him.
I don’t have real figures for this, but it seems that 80% of the Jews I know voted for zero. How does that happen?
Jews ought to be proud of being Jewish. Jews have had a greater positive impact on the world than any other ethnic group period followed by English-speakers.
Interesting recounting, but didn’t that contract contain punishment clauses and a perpetuity agreement by and between the parties, their heirs, etc.
I never understood why a Jew who is an agnostic, an atheist, a Buddhist in belief and practice, or even a Canaanite religionist or even a Gaia devotee, can immigrate to Israel as a Jew; but if he is a baptized believer in Jesus Christ, then -—poof -— he’s not a Jew and cannot immigrate.
Could somebody explain that to me?
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