Those young Florida Jews
Stop the presses -- Florida Jews are not all old! New Voices magazine has the story on the Jewish student boom in the Sunshine State (hat tip to Reform Judaism magazine):
We can all picture the Florida Jew.
70 years old and retired, with the heavy Brooklyn accent and the polo shirt you wouldn’t wish on anybody: not the kind of Jew you’d expect at Hillel on Friday nights and a football game on Saturday, who listens to Guster and has a running win-streak in beer pong.
Think again.
According to Reform Judaism Magazine, five Florida universities are among the top 20 public colleges in America with the most Jews: the University of Florida (UF) ranked second and the University of Central Florida fourth, with Florida International University, the University Southern Florida and Florida State University (FSU) not far behind.
In 2008, the Census Bureau recorded that Florida’s Members of the Tribe make up 3.6% of the US Jewish population. Coincidence or not, a majority of these Jewish households are sending their children to Florida public universities.
Full story here.
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3.8% comes from very liberal estimate conducted by Reform of all people in US claiming to have Jewish blood
“In 2008, the Census Bureau recorded that Florida’s Members of the Tribe make up 3.6% of the US Jewish population.”
3.6% of the US Jewish population, not the US population. That means that Florida has about 3.6% of 6.5M, which is about 235,000. However, that’s much lower than most estimates that put the Jewish population in Florida at over 600,000, which would be almost 10% of the US Jewish population. Either way, more evidence that this article was poorly written and researched.
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Joshua Pines
09/01/09 05:13 PM
The article misses the boat by not including the University of Miami.