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Jewish Americans in 2020
Among Americans with one Jewish parent, young adults more likely than older generations to identify as Jewish today
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- Jewish Americans in 2020
- Jewish identity in the United States, 2020
- Compared with older Jews, youngest Jewish adults include larger shares of both Orthodox and people with no denominational identity
- Most U.S. Jews identify as Democrats, but most Orthodox are Republicans
- Jewish denominational identity largely steady since 2013
- Conservative Jews are older than Jews who identify with other streams
- How respondents are categorized
- Jewish branches see most commonality with members of their own branch
- Jews less likely than Americans overall to attend religious services weekly, believe in God of the Bible
- Most U.S. Jews who attend synagogue regularly say they find it spiritually meaningful to go
- Most U.S. Jews at least sometimes eat Jewish foods, share Jewish culture with non-Jews
- Jews with higher levels of traditional religious observance are more likely than those with lower levels to participate in many cultural Jewish activities
- Most Jews say there is more anti-Semitism than five years ago
- Jews who wear distinctively Jewish items are especially likely to say they feel less safe today
- Among U.S. Jews, 5% say they have not participated in Jewish events over safety concerns
- Orthodox Jews more likely to see anti-Jewish graffiti, be made to feel unwelcome or called offensive names
- One-third of U.S. Jews report hearing a recent anti-Semitic trope in their presence
- Majority of Jews describe Trump as friendly toward Israel, fewer describe him as friendly toward U.S. Jews
- Most Jews rated Trump’s handling of U.S. policy toward Israel as ‘only fair’ or ‘poor’
- Older American Jews tend to feel more connected to Israel
- Younger Jewish adults are more racially and ethnically diverse
- Most American Jews identify as Ashkenazi
- Intermarriage more common among Jews married more recently
- Intermarried Jewish parents much less likely to be raising their children Jewish
- More Jews say it is important for future grandchildren to share their political convictions and to carry on their family name than to marry someone who is Jewish
- Nine-in-ten Americans raised Jewish by religion and three-quarters raised as Jews of no religion remain Jewish today
- Among Americans with one Jewish parent, young adults more likely than older generations to identify as Jewish today
- Two-thirds of Americans raised as Orthodox Jews still identify as Orthodox as adults
- By early 2021, little difference in share of U.S. Jews, other adults who know someone who died or was hospitalized due to COVID-19
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