Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Contemporary Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,2 (2023) 399-410
Keywords:
Pew Research Center
;
Environmentalism
;
Jewish communities History 21st century
;
Social surveys
Abstract:
It is unsurprising that the Pew Research Center’s “Jewish Americans in 2020” study and report emphasized politics, anti-Semitism, and coronavirus disease 22019 (COVID-19), but there were missed opportunities to collect data and analyze Jewish environmentalism. The Pew data indicated that high percentages of Jews find mining and fulfillment from “being outdoors and experiencing nature” (Pew Research Center 2019–2020 Survey of U.S. Jews Final Topline, 2021c, 3) and that they were concerned with the Trump Administration’s handling of the environment (Pew Research Center 2021c, 8). In addition, the growth of Jewish environmental organizations suggests that the younger generations of Jewish Americans are gravitating towards this work. The data from these surveys and scholarship on Jewish environmentalism will be analyzed alongside my own research on Jewish environmentalism and the Jewish community farming movement. I argue here that based on the data from Pew and other sources like the Public Religion Research Institute, a majority of Jewish Americans are invested in the environment and are concerned about the climate crisis, so future surveys of the Jewish community should incorporate more questions and deeper analysis on this critical contemporary issue.
DOI:
10.1007/s12397-023-09500-2
URL:
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