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Jews in America: By the numbers | Washington Week
Anti-Semitic incidents in the past week have made headlines and added to a growing trend in 2017. So what is the state of Judaism in America? Here’s a look at the numbers.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/blog-post/jews-america-numbers
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A History of Jews in the United States | ReformJudaism.org
About fifty to sixty Spanish and Portuguese Jews build North America's first synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel, on Mill Street in New York City. The only ...
https://reformjudaism.org/history-jews-united-states
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350 Years of Jews in North America | Jewish Women's Archive
The year 2004 marked 350 years since the first communal settlement of Jews in North America. To mark this milestone, JWA created a set of resources that would ensure that women's stories would find a prominent role in the narratives of American Jewish history that emerged during the national 350th Anniversary celebrations.
https://jwa.org/350years
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A Portrait of Jewish Americans | Pew Research Center
American Jews overwhelmingly say they are proud to be Jewish and have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people, but their identity is also changing: 22% of American Jews now say they have no religion.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey/
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Judaism in America | The Pluralism Project
1654 CE The First Jewish Settlers in North America. In early September of 1654, twenty‑three Sephardic Jewish refugees from Brazil landed in the port of New ...
http://pluralism.org/timeline/judaism-in-america/
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The Jewish Federations of North America | The Jewish Federations of North America
The Jewish Federations of North America: Touching more Jewish lives than any other organization in the world.
https://www.jewishfederations.org
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American Jews - Wikipedia
American Jews, or Jewish Americans,[5] are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.[6] The current Jewish community in the United States consists primarily of Ashkenazi Jews, who descend from diaspora Jewish populations of Central/Eastern Europe and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews
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History of the Jews in Mexico - Wikipedia
The history of the Jews in Mexico can be said to have begun in 1519 with the arrival of Conversos, often called Marranos or “Crypto-Jews,” referring to those Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism and that then became subject to the Spanish Inquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Mexico
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History of the Jews in Canada - Wikipedia
Canadian Jews or, alternatively, Jewish Canadians are Canadian citizens of the Jewish faith and/or Jewish ethnicity. Jewish Canadians are a part of the greater Jewish diaspora and form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Canada