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- ↑ Kamaras, Jacob. New U.S. Jewish population figures may allow community to ‘get beyond the numbers’. JNS.org. October 1, 2013.
- ↑ Beckerman, Gal. New Study Finds More Jews in the United States Than Previously Thought. The Jewish Daily Forward. December 22, 2010.
- ↑ Tighe, Elizabeth, Leonard Saxe & Charles Kadushin. Estimating the Jewish Population of the United States: 2000-2010. Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (CMJS). 2011.
