American Jewish Year Book 2022

Arnold Dashefsky, Ph.D. served as the inaugural holder of the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he is now emeritus. He is the co-author, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, among others, as well as numerous scholarly articles. A former associate head of the sociology department, he was the founding director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, located in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and is the director emeritus and current senior academic consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank.Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D. is the director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami and professor of geography and sustainable development at the same institution. He has completed more than 50 major Jewish community studies for Jewish Federations throughout the country and was a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America from 1988 to 2003, which completed both the 1990 and 2000-01 National Jewish Population Surveys. His publications include books entitled Survey Research for Geographers, How Jewish Communities Differ, and Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts.

• The Golden Jubilee of the First National Jewish Population Survey: A Critical Assessment of the Demographic Study of US Jewry, 1970-2020.- Coverage of Israel in the American Press.- American Jews and the Domestic Arena (July 2021 – Fall 2022): A Year of Shifting Lines and Disruptions.- American Jews and the International Arena (August 2021 – August 2022): The US, Israel, and the Middle East.- United States Jewish Population, 2022.- Canadian Jewish Population, 2022.- World Jewish Population, 2022.- Local Jewish Organizations.- Jewish Museums and Holocaust Museums, Memorials, Monuments, and Jewish Biblical Gardens.- Jewish Overnight Camps.- National Jewish Organizations.- Jewish Press.- Academic Resources.- Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries.