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The diaspora countries, by contrast, have low Jewish birth rates, an increasingly elderly age composition, and a negative balance of people leaving Judaism versus those joining. [14] Immigration trends also favour Israel ahead of diaspora countries. The Jewish state has a positive immigration balance (called aliyah in Hebrew).
Scene from Lachish reliefs: Judahites from Lachish in Assyrian captivity, playing the lyre (cf. Psalm 137 from a later period: 'they that carried us away captive required of us a song'.) The Jewish diaspora ( Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized : təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) [a] is the dispersion of ...
King David Schools, Johannesburg. Kollel Bet Mordechai. Kollel Yad Shaul. Lubavitch Yeshiva Gedolah of Johannesburg. Ohr Somayach, South Africa. Oxford Shul. Rabbinical College of Pretoria. Torah Academy School, Johannesburg. United Herzlia Schools.
As of 2021, over 85% of the global Jewish population resided in two countries: Israel and the United States. Additionally, 23 countries with Jewish populations exceeding 10,000 accounted for another 14%, while 77 countries, each with fewer than 10,000 Jews, comprised the remaining 1%. World core Jewish population estimates (1945-2020): [1]
Today, around 26,000 Jews live in Arab countries [278] and around 30,000 in Iran and Turkey. A small-scale exodus had begun in many countries in the early decades of the 20th century, although the only substantial aliyah came from Yemen and Syria. [279] The exodus from Arab and Muslim countries took place primarily from 1948.
Judaism by country; Lists of Jews; Diaspora; Historical population by country; Genetic studies; Land of Israel; Old Yishuv; New Yishuv; Israeli Jews; Africa; Algeria
The traditional religious view of Jews and Judaism of their own history was based on the narrative of the ancient Hebrew Bible. In this view, Abraham, signifying that he is both the biological progenitor of the Jews and the father of Judaism, is the first Jew. Later, Isaac was born to Abraham, and Jacob was born to Isaac.
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