{"id":61161,"date":"2014-01-25T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=61161"},"modified":"2014-02-12T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T23:45:26","slug":"the-rise-of-the-jew-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/25\/the-rise-of-the-jew-ish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Jew-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Research Center has released the data from new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2013\/12\/03\/infographic-survey-of-jewish-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> of religious and non-religious Jews. \u00a0They find that almost a quarter of Jews (22%) describe themselves as being &#8220;atheist,&#8221; &#8220;agnostic,&#8221; or &#8220;nothing in particular.&#8221; \u00a0The percentage of Jews of no religion correlates with age, such that younger generations are much more likely to be unaffiliated. \u00a0Nearly a third of Millennials with Jewish ancestry say they have no religion (32%), compared to 19% of Boomers and 7% of the Greatest Generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-34.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Screenshot (34)\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-34-500x159.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A majority of Jews with no religion marry non-Jews (79%); 67% have decided against raising their children with the religion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-33.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61162\" alt=\"Screenshot (33)\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-33.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>As a result of intermarriage, the percent of all Jews who have only one Jewish parent is rising. \u00a0While 92% of people born between 1914 and 1927 had two Jewish parents, Millennials are as likely as not to have just had one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/navigation\/books-and-culture\/rise-jew-ish-atheist-religion-agnostic-israel-74469\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Research Center has released the data from new survey of religious and non-religious Jews. \u00a0They find that almost a quarter of Jews (22%) describe themselves as being &#8220;atheist,&#8221; &#8220;agnostic,&#8221; or &#8220;nothing in particular.&#8221; \u00a0The percentage of Jews of no religion correlates with age, such that younger generations are much more likely to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":61169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,253,778,272,285,3875,42],"class_list":["post-61161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-history","tag-intersectionality","tag-marriagefamily","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-jews","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/19.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61587,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161\/revisions\/61587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}