., combining Jewish specificity and solidarity based on shared class interests — has given definition to the locally focused efforts of Jewish justice organizations across the country, from Jews for Racial and Economic Justice to the Progressive Jewish Alliance. ..…

This includes some non-Jewish family members of Jews who have immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, other Israelis who do not identify with any religion, members of the Baha’i faith and a smattering of smaller religious groups in Israel. . ..…

rising tensions in the region spurred increased immigration by Sephardi Jews from Middle East and North Africa. About three-quarters of Jewish respondents from Soviet Union arrived Israel between 1990 and 1999, in the years following the disintegration of USSR in 1991. ..…

DellaPergola estimates that there were 3.4 Jews in European portions of Soviet Union as of 1939. Jewish of Israel has grown from about half in 1945 to 5.6 in 2010. ..…

But while relatively few Jews attach high importance to religion, far more (46%) say being Jewish is very important to them. . ... Jews from the former Soviet Union and their offspring account for roughly one-tenth of the U.S. ..…

1941, its armies first entered lands such as Lithuania that had just been incorporated into Soviet Union. Nazi message was that Bolshevism was Jewish and that Jews were Bolsheviks, and thus Soviet of Lithuania was the fault of Jews.. ..…