![]() ![]() Somewhat fewer (46%) say they fasted all or part of Yom Kippur. Jews say they held or participated in a Seder in the year prior to the survey, and a similar share say they attended a ritual to mark a lifecycle passage or milestone, such as a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah. This chapter explores these and other questions about participation in Jewish life in more detail. Among Jews who do attend religious services regularly, about nine-in-ten say they do so because they find it spiritually meaningful. When Jews who do not attend religious services regularly are asked why they don’t attend more often, the most commonly offered response is “I’m not religious.” A slightly smaller majority cite lack of interest as a reason for not attending more often, and more than half of non-attenders say they express their Jewishness in other ways. ![]() Jews say they attend religious services at a synagogue, temple, minyan or havurah at least once or twice a month, compared with twice as many (39%) who say they often or sometimes mark Shabbat in a way that is “personally meaningful” to them. ![]() And six-in-ten say they at least sometimes share Jewish culture and holidays with non-Jewish friends, that they held or attended a Seder last Passover, or that they observed a Jewish ritual to mark a lifecycle milestone (like a bar or bat mitzvah) in the past year. But many engage with Judaism in some way, whether through holidays, food choices, cultural connections or life milestones.įor instance, roughly seven-in-ten Jews say they often or sometimes cook or eat traditional Jewish foods, making this the most common form of engagement with Jewish life among a wide range of practices and activities measured in the survey. Jewish Americans are not a highly religious group, at least by traditional measures of religious observance. ![]()
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