Urban OutreachJessica KianmahdMiriam EshaghianMelody Pakravan

AJIS Survey

JEWISH CONTINUITY

EducationAccording to the study, 33 percent of interfaith couples raise their children as Jews, compared to 96 percent of Jewish couples that do.

Source: Joe Berkofsky

Children who understand their surroundings are the leaders for our future

A 1990 population study stated that the Jewish percentage in America decreased by five percent; there were only 5.2 million Jews in the United States. Of those, 4.3 million are committed to the Jewish practices such as lighting the Chanukah candles and attending Passover Seders.

Source: AJC on Jewish Continuity

Internal and External Socialization

Getting to know ourselves and our community

Religious pluralism, the availability of diverse models, is critical to Jewish continuity because it allows different people of different practices to identify as being Jewish

As Jews we are seen as outsiders

50% of the city of Los Angeles is Latino that is 10,000,000 people we can extend outreach to

Source: Rabbi Randy Brown

PeoplehoodThe sense of peoplehood is the awareness which an individual has of being a member of a group that is known, both by its own members and by outsiders, as a people.

Birthright Aftermath: Of the 500 or so interviewed who are now married, 72 percent who made the trip married Jews, while 46 percent of those who did not married Jews. This means that Birthright participants were 57 percent more likely to marry within the faith

Source: Dr. Steven Windmueller

Globalization

Funding