barrettYounger Jews are far more likely to say they are not White. In all, 15 percent of Jewish adults in the United States under 30 years old are Hispanic, Black, Asian, another non-White race or multiracial, along with 12 percent of Jews ages 30 to 39. That compares with just 4 percent of Jews ages 50 to 64 who are non-White and 3 percent of those 65 and older according to an article in teh Washington Post. And even if an American Jew does not personally identify as someone of another race, 13 percent of Jews in America live in multiracial households.
“People are finally waking up to the fact that our Jewish community is quite multicultural,” Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue in New York City told Pew Research Center.
Are we prepared for this emerging reality, in the American Jewish cmmunity?
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