Review of National and Local Jewish Community Studies
In August 2025 the Center prepared a review of all of the national and local community studies, and qualitative studies of interfaith families, since the 2013 Pew report, relating to interfaith family inclusion. Read What Recent Studies Reveal About Interfaith Family Inclusion.
In December 2020 the Center prepared a review of the Cohen Center’s research to that point, What We’ve Learned About Interfaith Family Inclusion Since the Pew Report, and a blog post, What Local Community Studies Tell Us About Interfaith Family Inclusion.
The 2020 Pew Report
On May 11, 2021, the Pew Research Center released the Jewish Americans in 2020 report. We offer these resources to help understand the report and its implications for interfaith family engagement efforts:
- The Center prepared a detailed Review and Analysis of the Interfaith Marriage Data
in the Pew Research Center’s Jewish Americans in 2020 Report. - Our op-ed, The Pew number that matters: 72% appeared in eJewishPhilanthopy on May 19.
- We presented slides, The Pew number that matters: 72%, at a May 13, 2021 webinar hosted by 18Doors with the report’s primary authors Alan Cooperman and Becka Alper, as well as Jodi Bromberg of 18Doors, Idit Klein of Keshet and Ilana Kaufman of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. To view the webinar, go to https://18doors.org/upcoming-webinars/, scroll down to Previous Webinars, and click on Pew Research Center’s 2020 Survey. The Pew authors speak for about the first 30 minutes, followed by my presentation and then the panel discussion.
Analysis of Other Reports
Game-changing Officiation Research: A Report on Under the Chuppah: Rabbinic Officiation and Intermarriage, December 1, 2016 (PDF)
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The Implications for Interfaith Families of Definitions of Jewishness: A Report on the Jewish People Policy Institute’s Exploring the Jewish Spectrum in a Time of Fluid Identity, December 1, 2016 (PDF)
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A Review of the 2015 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study, December 2, 2016 (PDF)