American Jewish Identity Survey Indicates Decline in Those "Jewish by Religion"

Source: The Jewish Week

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=5301

On November 2, 2001 The Jewish Week reported, "The number of Jews who identify with a religion other than Judaism has more than doubled in the last decade, marking a growing split between Jewish ethnicity and religion. A new portrait of American Jewish religious identification conducted by three leading sociologists reveals that 1.4 million Jews say that they are Jewish by dint of parentage or ethnicity but align themselves with another faith community...An additional 1.4 million Jews — another quarter of the population — say they are secular or have no religion at all, leaving just 51 percent of American Jews to say they are Jewish by religion."