Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Who We Are (2/12) Previous Document: ORGANIZATION Next Document: Question 2.2: What are the major Jewish movements? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: Qualitatively? We have men and women who have outstanding Jewish educations, and who are willing to take the time to share their knowledge. We have serious non-observant Jews seeking deeper Jewish roots. We have Jews still trying to see exactly where they fit it, Jews who are struggling, and learning, and actively improving themselves. Some reply carefully and kindly; others use their wits like scalpels, cutting away at the first sign of nonsense. We have talented writers, whose prose is often poetic. Counted among us are Hassidic Jews, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, and miscellaneous Jews. We've got atheists and secularists, Hebraists and Yiddishists. And we are all learning from one another and teaching one another. Quantitatively? This is difficult to answer. When Usenet was smaller, surveys were done of the newsgroup to try to determine the denominational breakdown of the readership. This survey involved regular postings to the newsgroup, together with periodic mail sent to newsgroup participants. Nowadays, some of the approaches taken in conducting the survey (i.e., the sending of notes to newsgroup readers unsolicited) would be considered to be spam. So a survey hasn't been done recently. Note: If you are interested in conducting one, please contact the FAQ maintainer <[5]maintainer@scjfaq.org>, and he will be glad to provide you with the scripts and ideas from the last survey. What did the last survey say? First, note that it only applied to S.C.J, and was last conducted in 1995, well over 5 years ago. There were just under 332 respondants (or approximately 1% of the readership at that time). This survey showed the following breakdowns: 1995 1993 1991 1989 JC [Conservative ]: 30.12% 22.06% 28.98% 37.12% JO [Orthodox ]: 27.11% 31.62% 36.33% 29.55% JL [Liberal/Reform ]: 13.86% 12.87% 10.20% 11.36% JS [Secular/Humanistic ]: 5.72% 5.15% 3.67% 2.27% JR [Reconstructionist ]: 5.42% 2.21% 1.63% 1.52% JU [Unspecified Jewish ]: 4.22% 4.78% 2.86% N/A JN [Non-Affiliated ]: 3.01% 4.04% 2.45% 0.76% AA [Agnostic or Atheist ]: 3.01% 2.94% 0.82% 6.06% OT [Other ]: 2.41% 3.68% 4.49% 0.76% JT [Traditional ]: 1.51% 3.68% N/A N/A CF [Christian Fndmntlist]: 0.90% 1.47% 3.67% N/A CM [Christian Mainstream]: 0.60% 0.74% 2.04% N/A CC [Catholic ]: 0.30% 1.84% 1.22% N/A CO [Christian Other ]: 0.30% 1.47% 1.22% N/A HI [Hindu ]: 0.00% 0.37% N/A N/A Gross Breakdown: J [Jewish ]: 91.87% 86.40% 86.12% 82.58% A [Atheist/Agnostic]: 3.01% 2.94% 0.82% 6.06% O [Other ]: 2.41% 3.68% 4.49% 0.76% C [Christian ]: 2.11% 5.51% 8.16% N/A H [Hindu ]: 0.00% 0.37% N/A N/A It is interesting to contrast these numbers with the results mentioned in [6]Question 2.21. User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Who We Are (2/12) Previous Document: ORGANIZATION Next Document: Question 2.2: What are the major Jewish movements? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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