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Editor’s Choice: Millennials Speak on Pew

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From the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

The Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project issued its “Portrait of Jewish Americans” on Oct. 1, setting off alarms throughout the Jewish community about the future of Jewish life.

Among the greatest concerns is this statement: “Among Jews in the youngest generation of U.S. adults — the Millennials — 68% identify as Jews by religion, while 32% describe themselves as having no religion and identify as Jewish on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity or culture.”

To hear the voices behind the statistics, the Journal invited Millennials to speak for themselves about what it means to them to be American Jews.

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