Officials figures show number of people in country grew by 146,000 since last Jewish new year, including 20,000 immigrants

On eve of Rosh Hashanah, figures show 45.3% of Jews live in Israel; 25.3 million eligible for Law of Return

New survey shows America's estimated 7.5 million Jews are older, whiter and more liberal than country as a whole, and US has larger Jewish population than Israel

Nearly 30 years ago, reports of a 52% interfaith household rate had some US Jewish leaders denouncing ‘assimilation’ as silently completing Hitler’s work

Studies of American Jewish population fail to ask about race, says report, which estimates that up to 15% of community is nonwhite