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3. Jewish practices and customs
Most common reason offered by those who rarely or never attend religious services? ‘I’m not religious’
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- 3. Jewish practices and customs
- Jewish practices and activities
- Six-in-ten Jews say they attended a Seder or Jewish milestone event in the past year
- Four-in-ten Jews say they regularly mark Shabbat in a way that is meaningful to them
- Most U.S. Jews say they share Jewish culture and holidays with non-Jewish friends, among other ways of engaging with their Jewishness
- Three-in-ten U.S. Jews engage in political activism as expression of Jewishness
- Keeping kosher nearly universal among Orthodox, far less common among others
- Most Jews say they own a menorah, mezuzah
- Characteristics of those who participate in activities with Chabad
- Roughly half of U.S. Jews attend religious services at least a few times a year
- Most Jews are not synagogue members
- Most common reason offered by those who rarely or never attend religious services? ‘I’m not religious’
- Many young Jewish adults say they do not know enough to participate in synagogue services
- Among Jews who do not regularly attend synagogue but say they express their Jewishness in other ways, what are the most common practices?
- Reasons for attending synagogue