David Boxenhorn alerted me to this report: American Jewish Religious Denominations, and I thought I would cut & paste a slice of a table that I think is very interesting.
Orthodox %Conservative %Reform %”Just Jewish” %Total %Frequency of adults in the total Jewish population10273526 Very emotionally attached to Israel6839212432Have every visited Israel7353342741Strongly agree that “I have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people”9174563960
These sort of numbers may explain why the Republican, and in particular George W. Bush’s, stance in support of Israel has not swayed as many Jewish American voters as might be expected, as religious traditionalist Jews who are most concerned about this issue are already the ones most likely to be Republican.1
1 – Exit polls suggest that Bush received about 1/4 of the Jewish vote in 2004 , as opposed to 1/5 in 2000. A 20% increase, even in light of Bush’s overall upswing in the popular vote, isn’t half bad, but it certainly isn’t a sea change, and the Lieberman factor (an observant Orthodox Jew) was at play in 2000. Posted by razib at 12:56 PM