How many jews live in america?

There were about 4 million adherents of Judaism in the U.S. as of 2001, approximately 1.4% of the US population. According to the Jewish Agency, for the year 2017 Israel is home to 6.5 million Jews (49.3% of the world's Jewish population), while the United States contained 5.3 million (40.2%). read more

Recent Jewish population dynamics are characterized by continued steady increase in the Israeli Jewish population and flat or declining numbers in other countries (the diaspora). The Jewish population of Israel increased from the country's inception in 1948 to 6,135,000 in 2014 while the population of the diaspora has dropped from 10.5 to 8.1 million over the same period. read more

Half of Jews in Europe and North America reported they had seen or experienced anti-Semitism in the past year. According to an internal poll conducted by the ADL last fall, 14 percent of Americans -- around 35 million people --- have anti-Semitic views. read more

About 400,000 children are not being raised Jewish at all despite living in a household with at least one Jewish adult. It is difficult to track how the size of the Jewish population has changed over time, but surveys in the 1950s and 1960s consistently found that between 3% and 4% of American adults said their religion was Jewish. read more