Seattle's Jewish Population Grew 70 Percent in the Last 15 Years

JTA reports on the recently released Greater Seattle Jewish Community Study, which recorded a whopping 70 percent increase in the city’s Jewish population since 2001. (The 2000-2001 estimate was 37,180 Jewish people; this year’s survey recorded 63,400.)

It’s not the only recent jump in Jewish population growth in the Pacific Northwest—in 2011, a Jewish Federation census reported a Jewish population of Portland, Ore. nearly double the size of what community members had been estimating (47,500 as opposed to an oft-cited, and apparently well outdated, 25,000 figure).

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