Marching for peace: US ‘Peace Pilgrimage’ takes up war in Gaza as a civil rights issue
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports that many Black Americans view the Palestinian cause in the context of the African American experience of oppression, a stance which has, on occasion, strained relations with American Jews…
Anti-Semitism worries rising for many US Jews, survey finds
United StatesAP More than four in ten Jews in the United States feel their status in America is less secure than it was a year earlier, according to a new survey by the American Jewish Committee. The survey, conducted in the fall of 2022, was released Monday by the AJC, a prominent Jewish advocacy organisation. […]
New survey of US Jews reveals worries, strengths, divisions
United StatesAP A comprehensive new survey of Jewish Americans finds them increasingly worried about anti-Semitism, proud of their cultural heritage and sharply divided about the importance of religious observance in their lives. The survey, released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, estimated the total Jewish population in the country at 7.5 million — about 2.3 per […]
Survey: Half of American Jews have experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism
RNS A new survey released on Holocaust Remembrance Day found that more than half of America’s Jews have either experienced or witnessed what they perceived to be an anti-Semitic incident over the past five years. The survey was conducted in January, before the US outbreak of the coronavirus, by the data analytics firm YouGov on behalf of […]