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Jewish Americans were not just involved in nearly every important social movement but in the forefront of promoting such issues as workers rights, civil rights, civil liberties, woman's rights, freedom of religion, peace movements, and various other progressive causes such as fighting prejudice. Americanization
While Ashkenazi Jews do make up the majority of American Jews, the Jewish world is much more diverse that this picture suggests – including in the United States.
Further, Jewish Americans are more likely than other religious groups to report increasingly poor treatment over the past year, with 46 percent reporting such trends. 80 percent of Jewish Americans who said they have received poor treatment say it has come from people online, while 82 percent say it comes from people they have encountered in their community and 61 percent from leaders.
The ancestry of most American Jews goes back to Ashkenazi Jewish communities that immigrated to the US in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as more recent influxes of Persian and other Mizrahi Jewish immigrants. The American Jewish community is considered to contain the highest percentage of mixed marriages between ...
For much of modern history in both Europe and North America, Jews have been reliably left of center politically, backing Democrats in the United States, Labour in Britain, Canada’s Liberals, and France’s Socialists.
A survey of the U.S. Jewish community by the American Jewish Committee found that a significant majority of American Jews harbor deep concerns about antisemitism in the United States and remain strongly supportive of Israel.
A November poll by the Jewish Electorate Institute found overwhelming support for Biden’s handling of Israel’s war on Hamas, even among younger, left-leaning Jews, if by smaller margins.
