Sentences with phrase «jewish population of the city»

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For example, nearly half the Jews in America live in New York City alone, and the fact that the city of New York is so important to the life of the country taken together with the fact that 30 per cent of the population of that city is Jewish has the effect of throwing its 1,765,000 Jews into very high relCity alone, and the fact that the city of New York is so important to the life of the country taken together with the fact that 30 per cent of the population of that city is Jewish has the effect of throwing its 1,765,000 Jews into very high relcity of New York is so important to the life of the country taken together with the fact that 30 per cent of the population of that city is Jewish has the effect of throwing its 1,765,000 Jews into very high relcity is Jewish has the effect of throwing its 1,765,000 Jews into very high relief.

One obvious rejoinder is that a third of the population of New York is also Jewish and that the percentage of Jewish lawyers and doctors in other cities with smaller Jewish populations is correspondingly smaller.

With the establishment of Wal - Mart, the country's largest company, the city's Jewish community became significant, and the city's population increased significantly.

This is a city in which about 75 percent of the population is Christian and somewhat over 15 percent is Jewish.

The Huffington Post: Southern Jewish Communities Recruit Newcomers, Offer Incentives As Populations Dwindle On a recent Tuesday night at Rojos, a trendy Mexican restaurant on the south side of the city, a group of women were kicking off an unusual welcome party for someone they'd never met.

The city's and school system's Muslim population has mushroomed to a level that is similar to the Jewish population, and it's unfair to make such a large number of Muslim students take a «sick day» on these important holidays.

In 586 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Solomon's temple, tore down the city walls of Jerusalem, and sent a large part of the Jewish population into an exile that would last nearly 50 years.

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

I am currently traveling in Israel with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, leading a delegation of our city's growing Latino population.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio traveled through Paris yesterday, laying wreaths at the sites of the recent terror attacks, meeting with dignitaries and Jewish community leaders and, as the mayor of a city with a prominent Jewish population, speaking about «the cancer of anti-Semitism» throughout the world.

The district, suburban in character, is one of the most diverse in the city, with a booming South Asian population and traditionally affluent Jewish and Italian - American communities.

The team, which includes experts from 11 labs in the New York City area and Israel, focused on the Ashkenazi Jewish population because of its demographic history of genetic isolation and the resulting abundance of population - specific mutations and high prevalence of rare genetic disorders.

Yes, there was a small but dwindling Jewish population in that city (and several others), the descendants of traders who settled in a land where they did not face discrimination.

By the time the Budapest ghetto was liberated on January 16, 1945, nearly 50 % of the city's Jewish population died during the Holocaust.

Recipient of the $ 100,000 Bucksbaum Award for his challenging biennial installation Claim, which presented 2,755 slices of baloney with photocopy portraits that claimed to represent the Jewish population of New York City, Pope.L served up a piece of work that brought the question of fake news home.

With the establishment of Wal - Mart, the country's largest company, the city's Jewish community became significant, and the city's population increased significantly.