In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for the Erykah Badu single " Love of My Life". His first major-label album, Like Water for Chocolate (2000), received commercial success. He achieved mainstream success through his work with the Soulquarians. He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s.
He debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?, and gained critical acclaim with his 1994 album Resurrection. * All Statistics taken from Council of Jewish Federations’ 1990 National Jewish Population Survey.Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known by his stage name Common (also known as Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor. Of the population that consists of people who were born Jewish and are Jewish by choice, only 11% attend synagogue weekly. Only 36% of Jewish households light the Shabbat Candles. Traditional Shabbat observance is extremely low. By 1990, fewer than 240,000 Jewish children attended afternoon /weekend schools and 140,000 attended day schools. In 1962, 540,000 Jewish children were attending afternoon weekend schools, and 60,000 were enrolled in day schools. Less emphasis is being placed on a Jewish education. The average fertility rate of American Jewish women is 1.4 children per household. Fertility Rates are not high enough to replenish the religion. Children are being raised as non-Jews.ġ million, or 54% of all American Jewish children under the age of 18 are being raised as non-Jews or with no religion. Since 1985, 52% of Jews who married have done so outside the faith. Of 5.6 million Jews, 2 million American Jews live in households identified as non-JewishĦ0% of Jews below 40 years of age live in households identified as non-JewishĢ0% of Jews over 60 years of age live in households identified as non-Jewish Intermarriage rates are increasing dramatically.īefore 1965, 10% of Jews who married, did so outside the faith. So powerful is this meltdown of Jewish life, that Judaism in America, as we have known it for the last 300 years, will likely cease to exist in the new millennium.Ĭonsider the following statistics*: Jewish identity is declining sharply. As these ancient practices and rituals disappear, so do the number of Jewish people on this continent who consider themselves Jewish. However today, North America’s Jewish population has experienced an internal breakdown of both the family unit and the concept of community, that have unified the Jewish people for so long. These practices were first learned in the home and were enhanced over a lifetime of familial and communal interaction.
In the past, Jews rallied together around a core of religious and ethnic traditions, such as synagogue affiliation, lighting of Shabbat candles and giving charity to Jewish institutions. This staggering portrait of American Jewish life is perpetuated by a host of disturbing national trends, including a quickly growing rate of Jewish intermarriage, an extraordinary low birth rate, and a sharp increase in the number of children being raised as non-Jews. Today, of the approximately 6 million Jews in the United States, about 2 out of 3, either do not identify themselves Jewishly or maintain an affiliation with a synagogue. Unlike the persecution that the Jewish people have endured by the hands of others for over 3,000 years, Jews on this continent now face a “silent holocaust” stemming from within their very own communities and their very own households. What they got instead was a meltdown!” - Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, Founder, National Jewish Outreach ProgramĪs the year 2000 fast approaches, North America’s Jewish population faces a disturbing set of trends that threatens the viability of Judaism on this continent in the next century-The J2K (Jewish 2000) Problem. “Our grandparents prayed for a melting pot.
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