We've all heard the old joke – 10 Jews & 11 opinions. The humor in the statement is grounded in what some have called “the Jewish intellectual legacy,” but also in the value that traditional Jewish learning has always placed upon engaging different opinions. Do American Jews and Israeli Jews agree on what's important? That's the question that the Pew Research Center explores in its American and Israeli Jews: Twin Portraits report, released at the end of September.
The Pew survey asks the same questions of Jews living in America and Jews living in Israel, and comes away with a report revealing deep connections along with a sometimes sharp divergence of opinion between the two groups.
Pew Research Center:
A Portrait of American & Israeli Jews