If this survey includes people who aren’t actually Jewish, it also excludes people who are
Last week, the Pew Research Center released a survey entitled “Jewish Americans in 2020,” the first major study of American Jews since Pew’s wide-ranging and oft-quoted 2013 survey entitled “A Portrait of Jewish Americans.” In many areas, the new survey’s findings show little change in the American Jewish landscape from seven years ago: The intermarriage rate for those who’ve married since 2010 is at 61% (rising to 72% in population samples excluding Orthodox Jews), although it is still the case even among Reform Jews that 84% have a Jewish mother or two Jewish parents. The breakdown of religious affiliation is: Reform, 37%; Conservative, 17%; Orthodox, 9%; and unaffiliated, 32%. All these figures are nearly identical to those of seven years ago.