(Jewish Group) What makes you feel Jewish? For most Jews, Holocaust remembrance is at the tops list

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What makes you feel Jewish? For most Jews, Holocaust remembrance is at the top of the list.

The vast majority of American Jews view remembering the Holocaust as essential to their Jewish identities — more than religious activities like observing Jewish law or cultural ones like eating Jewish food, according to “American Jews in 2020,” released today by the Pew Research Center.

More than 75% of survey respondents said that remembering the Holocaust was essential to their Jewish identities, the same as in Pew’s 2013 survey of American Jews. A more universal value — leading a moral and ethical life — came next in the rankings (72%).

Valuing Holocaust remembrance emerged as one of the key commonalities among Jewish American in a report that highlighted the many divisions among them, particularly between the Orthodox and other Jews.

Traditional ideas about what it means to be Jewish no longer resonate for many Jews, according to Pew researchers. But Holocaust remembrance is important across the Jewish spectrum.

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1. KNOWING my parent/mother/grandmother were Jewish; doesn't take much.

(There was chicken soup, and chopped liver.)

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2. I agree

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