Study: Americans don't know much about Jews, but love them anyway
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JTA — US Jews know more about religion in general than their non-Jewish neighbors, a new survey shows.
Americans who are not Jewish, meanwhile, don’t know a lot about Judaism. But they like Jews more than any other religious group. And they think there are more Jews in the country than there actually are. The more non-Jews know about Jews, the more they like them.
The data comes out of a new survey on what Americans know about religion published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. The survey asked a group of diverse Americans a set of 32 questions about religion, ranging from knowledge of the Bible and Christianity to knowledge of Judaism and other religions.
Ten of the questions related to Judaism in some way: four asked directly about Jewish history, practice and texts; five were about the Hebrew Bible; and one was about the size of America’s Jewish population.
The survey was conducted February 4-19 and included a total of nearly 11,000 respondents. The margin of error for the whole group was 1.5 percent. The margin of error for the Jewish sample was 8.6%.
Here are three takeaways from the survey.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-americans-dont-know-much-about-jews-but-love-them-anyway/
Eta:
https://www.pewforum.org/2019/07/23/what-americans-know-about-religion/
I didnt do well on the quiz, 12/15. I missed two catholic questions and a buddist one.
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