This essay focuses on the state of methodology with regard to counting and assessing the characteristics of US Jewry and provides a contemporary update by outlining a new paradigm for Jewish demographic research. We also consider the role of socio-demographic studies in providing scholarly understandings of US Jewish life and the development of communal policy. The original article was published in the Contemporary Jewry, 27, 27-54.
Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry
