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The Silent Young Jewish Majority

(Commentary) Matthew Ackerman - It has become accepted in recent years that young American Jews are "distancing" themselves from Israel. However, a recent poll by Mitchell Bard's American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise of 400 American Jewish undergraduate students found that 66% view themselves as feeling "very close" or "fairly close" to Israel. The AJC's 2011 annual survey of American Jewish opinion found that 68% of the general Jewish population also described their feeling toward Israel in similar terms.
2012-01-20 00:00:00
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