While Most U.S. Jews Identify as Democrats, Most Orthodox are Republicans, According to New Study
Thursday, May 13, 2021
A new Pew Research Center survey on Jewish Americans in 2020 finds that most U.S. Jews identify as Democrats — but most Orthodox in recent years increasingly are Republicans.
In the wide ranging study, Pew found that that “many Jewish Americans participate, at least occasionally, both in some traditional religious practices – like going to a synagogue or fasting on Yom Kippur – and in some Jewish cultural activities, like making potato latkes, watching Israeli movies or reading Jewish news online.”
“Among young Jewish adults, however, two sharply divergent expressions of Jewishness appear to be gaining ground – one involving religion deeply enmeshed in every aspect of life, and the other involving little or no religion at all,” Pew continues.
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Politics in Focus
“Politically, U.S. Jews on the whole tilt strongly liberal and tend to support the Democratic Party,” writes Pew. “When the new survey was fielded, from late fall 2019 through late spring 2020, 71% said they were Democrats or leaned Democratic.”
“Among Jews of no religion, roughly three-quarters were Democrats or leaned that way. But Orthodox Jews have been trending in the opposite direction, becoming as solidly Republican as non-Orthodox Jews are solidly Democratic,” Pew continues.
“In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, 75% of Orthodox Jews said they were Republicans or leaned Republican, compared with 57% in 2013," they report. "And 86% of Orthodox Jews rated then-President Donald Trump’s handling of policy toward Israel as “excellent” or “good,” while a majority of all U.S. Jews described it as “only fair” or “poor."
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