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Elderly Jews: An Increasing Priority for the American Jewish Community?

Elderly Jews: An Increasing Priority for the American Jewish Community?

July 14, 2010 | Prof. Ira M. Sheskin
The American Jewish community is rapidly aging. The absolute number of elderly Jews more than doubled from 1957 to 2000, reaching more than a million persons. Data are presented on Jewish elderly from both the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey and local Jewish community studies that are useful to Jewish community planners in prioritizing services for the Jewish elderly in an environment of both increasing numbers of elderly and increasing needs in other areas of Jewish communal concern.