The Jewish community and the US

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In 2000-01, a National Jewish Population Survey was conducted. This survey is realized once every ten years. The survey declared that the population of Jews in the U.S. amounted to nearly 5.2 million (it was 5.5 million in 1990). The Herculean task of defining ?Who is a Jew' was the main difficulty researchers encountered when conducting this survey. Finally, it was decided to categorize all the people who either identify themselves as Jews, or have had a Jewish parents/parent or were raised as Jews and did not convert into any other religion. If they had included every single person who had a Jewish background, the total population counted would have risen to 6.9 million which is a mammoth! But even the choice they made was not completely accurate as a recent survey by the Jewish Studies Centre of CCNY concluded that half of the population they counted as Jews list their religion as either "other" or "none."

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[...] And Jewish people definitely take part of this America. JEWS IN THE AMERICAN SOCIETY A. Problems of Integration 1. History of their integration ”They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in . It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.” Thanks to this citation of George Washington, one's of the founder of the United States, we can understand that they were a real problem for Jews to integrate themselves in America. [...]

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[...] The Jewish community and the US A. Characteristics of the Jewish population in the US 1. Who is Jewish? In 2000-01, a National Jewish Population Survey, which is realised once every ten years, found that the population of Jews in the U.S. today is 5.2 million (it was 5.5 million in 1990) The main difficulty researchers faced when doing this survey was defining who is a Jew; they finally included all the people who either who identified themselves as Jewish, had a Jewish parent or were raised as Jewish and did not convert to another religion. [...]

[...] Thanks to the actions of this lobby, Israel has enjoyed a continuous increase of the economic help coming from the America billions of dollars are each year sent to Israel which represent 700 dollars per Israeli. (In order to compare an African gets only 2 dollars per year) The Israeli depend a lot on this help which nearly cover all the imports of the country and that enable them to have a high standard of living. Yet, things can change. The public opinion is changing. Even if Americans have more sympathies to Israel (owing to polls), they start to acknowledge that a Palestinian state is a necessity. C. [...]