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Article: American Jews Stand Up To Be Counted
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- Forward
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- October 4, 2002
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Tobin, Gary
Forward
10-04-2002
Counting Jews, whether for demographic research or for communal policy
planning, is a difficult task. Ours is a highly dispersed community. Once
you leave the major metropolitan areas of the Northeast, locating Jewish
respondents is a needle-in-a-haystack endeavor.
The difficulty in estimating the number of Jews is compounded by the fact
that some Jews do not want to be found. When receiving a random telephone
call from a nosy stranger wanting to know if their parents were Jewish or
not, many will simply hang up the phone.
It should not be surprising, therefore, that improved research methods
would find more Jews than previously estimated. And indeed, a new research
...