Conservative Synagogues and Their Members: Highlights of the North American Study of 1995-96
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Jack Wertheimer
Nancy T. Ammerman
Alice Goldstein
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This publication has a two-fold purpose: to inform a wide readership interested in the condition of North American Jewry about the largest segment of synagogue-affiliated Jews in the United States and Canada; and to serve as a self-study document for the Conservative movement and its leaders. This report presents findings from five distinct, yet interrelated, research projects: * The National Jewish Population Survey of 1990. * A congregational survey of approximately half of the affiliates of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. * A membership survey about the characteristics and Jewish commitments of over 1,700 synagogue members of randomly selected congregations. * A survey of recent bar and bat mitzvah celebrants conducted in order to learn about the Jewish identity and experiences of nearly 1,500 young people. * Two separate ethnographic studies studying two congregations in the Northeast two in the Midwest.
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