Jewish Scholars Want Religion Question on U.S. Census

October 31, 2003

Source: Forward

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.31/news12.njps.html

On October 31, 2003 Forward reported that "Jewish researchers frustrated with the trouble-plagued National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01 are calling for a question on religion to be added to the decennial United States Census. Bucking the Jewish community's historic opposition to government inquiries on religion, three leading scholars now say it may be the only way to count Jews accurately. The reform advocates include Steven M. Cohen, senior consultant to the Jewish population survey; Jack Ukeles, a private consultant who specializes in Jewish demographic studies, and Len Saxe, co-director of the North American Jewish Data Bank at Brandeis University. The view was aired at a recent academic conference on the population survey and its fallout, held near Boston."

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