A total of 7% of the Jewish adults in the survey clearly identify as Sephardic or Mizrahi, either alone or in combination with other categories.) In addition, 17% say these labels either do not apply to them or that they are just Jewish, while 8% say they follow some other set of Jewish customs, indicate that they are unsure (5%) or otherwise did not answer the question (2%).

(However, some of the 6% identify with unclear categories or do not specify their mixture. Jews say they are Ashkenazi 3% describe themselves as Sephardic and 1% as Mizrahi, although an additional 6% identify with some mixture of these or other categories. The survey also asked respondents about their Jewish heritage: whether they are Askhenazi (which the survey defined as following the Jewish customs of Central and Eastern Europe), Sephardic (following the Jewish customs of Spain) or Mizrahi (following the Jewish customs of the Middle East and North Africa). This includes 1% who identify as Black and non-Hispanic 4% who identify as Hispanic and 3% who identify with another race or ethnicity – such as Asian, American Indian or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander – or with more than one race. Jews describe themselves as White and non-Hispanic, while 8% say they belong to another racial or ethnic group. Census Bureau asks about these identities, which is necessary for statistical reasons in order to ensure that surveys are representative of U.S. The current survey, like most Center surveys in the United States, measures race and ethnicity using categories that mirror the way the U.S. However, the survey included several other questions that can be used to explore the overlapping connections between race, ethnicity, heritage and geographic origin among Jewish Americans. Jews consider themselves to be people of color. 33 The new Pew Research Center survey did not contain questions using those terms, and therefore cannot determine how many U.S.

Jews who are “Jews of color,” “people of color” or “BIPOC” (an acronym for Black, Indigenous and people of color), and who should be included in these groups.

But in recent years, journalists, scholars and Jewish community leaders have wondered about the percentage of U.S.

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