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Synagogue and Organizational Membership Overall, 21 percent of Jewish residents report being current, dues paying members of a synagogue; another quarter report having belonged to a synagogue in the past. Membership, of course, is not synonymous with participation. In fact, 25 percent of non-members report attending services monthly or more and 24 percent always or usually attend services for the High Holidays. In other words, there are residents attending synagogue who do not actually belong or pay dues. Figure 38: Synagogue Membership Are you currently paying membership dues to a synagogue (IF NO) Since becoming an adult, have you ever paid membership dues to a synagogue 55 No, not currently paying dues and never have paid dues 2 Don’t know/Refused No, not currently paying dues, but did pay membership dues in the past 22 21 Yes, currently paying dues 40
Synagogue membership and attendance are significantly higher among same-faith families than interfaith families. For example, 47 percent of same-faith families currently belong to a synagogue compared to just 10 percent of interfaith families. Similarly, 47 percent of Jewish residents in interfaith marriages never attend synagogue, while only 10 percent of same-faith married residents never attend synagogue. Intermarried residents whose non-Jewish spouses participate in Jewish life with them are significantly more likely to belong to a synagogue and to belong to other organizations — 52 percent are dues paying members and 45 percent belong to other Jewish organizations. By comparison, 27 percent of those who report that their non- Jewish spouse sometimes participates and 6 percent of those who report that their non-Jewish spouse rarely or never participates in Jewish life are dues-paying members of a synagogue; organization membership stands at 17 percent and 13 percent, respectively. Figure 39: Jews in Interfaith Relationships Much Less Likely to be Dues Paying Members Are you currently paying membership dues to a synagogue (IF NO) Since becoming an adult, have you ever paid membership dues to a synagogue 80 60 47 Yes, currently paying dues No, not currently paying dues, but did pay membership dues in the past No, not currently paying dues and never have paid dues 64 40 20 30 23 24 10 0 Jewish spouse Non-Jewish spouse 41
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Page 9 and 10: Executive Summary The Jewish Commun
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Page 34 and 35: Jewish Identification As a starting
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Page 40 and 41: Jewish Identity There is a strong s
Page 42 and 43: Having a Jewish family is not the h
Page 44 and 45: Similarly, the practices of the int
Page 46 and 47: General Involvement More than 40 pe
Page 50 and 51: Synagogue membership is higher amon
Page 52 and 53: The highest level of synagogue memb
Page 54 and 55: Residents who belong to a Jewish or
Page 56 and 57: Informal Participation in Jewish Li
Page 58 and 59: Regionally, volunteers are distribu
Page 60 and 61: Those residents most likely to atte
Page 62 and 63: Spiritual event attendees are more
Page 65 and 66: Tzedakah in the Jewish Community A
Page 67 and 68: Financially, donors to Israel and n
Page 69 and 70: Geographically, Jewish Federation o
Page 71 and 72: Feelings about the Jewish Community
Page 73 and 74: A majority (54 percent) of intermar
Page 75: The most negative views held about
Page 78 and 79: Family Size Just over one-quarter o
Page 80 and 81: Although 42 percent of younger Jews
Page 82 and 83: Overall, a majority of Jewish paren
Page 84 and 85: Figure 72: Overall Contribution to
Page 86 and 87: This group already participates in
Page 88 and 89: The biggest barriers for those who
Page 90 and 91: Forty-one percent of younger Jews g
Page 92 and 93: Older and younger Jews also use a d
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Although financially the ―Jew-ish
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More than half of the unaffiliated
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Unaffiliated Jews do not purport to
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Research Definitions A Jewish adult
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Figure 93: Redefined Regional Defin
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Figure 95: Screener Questions 100
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Figure 99: Breakoff Chart Age and G
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Figure 101: Sampling Error by Perce
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