Brandeis IR - 2019 · 2020. 9. 4. · The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee has a vision to build a vibrant, inclusive, engaged Jewish community. To realize this vision, our leadership

2019Jewish Community Study

A socio-demographic portrait of the Jewish community in Sarasota-Manatee

Cohen Center Authors: Matthew Boxer

Matthew A. BrooknerEliana Chapman

Janet Krasner Aronson

Sponsored in part by a grant from:

© 2019 Brandeis University Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies www.brandeis.edu/cmjs The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee https://www.jfedsrq.org/ The Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (CMJS), founded in 1980, is dedicated to providing independent, high-quality research on issues related to contemporary Jewish life. The Cohen Center is also the home of the Steinhardt Social Research Institute (SSRI). Established in 2005, SSRI uses innovative research methods to collect and analyze socio-demographic data on the Jewish community.

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It is with pride and a sense of accomplishment that we present the findings of our 2019 Jewish Community Study. The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee has a vision to build a vibrant, inclusive, engaged Jewish community. To realize this vision, our leadership felt strongly that we must better understand the demographics of our Jewish community and the attitudes and needs of its residents. To address this, our Federation invested in a comprehensive study of our local Jewish community. This study will significantly impact the strategy and work of our Federation, helping us to better understand communal needs so that we can allocate our precious resources for maximum impact. The results are especially important and timely as we embark on a project to reimagine our 32-acre Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life on McIntosh Road. Our Federation engaged the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University to conduct the survey and to report on its findings. Led by principal researcher, Dr. Matt Boxer, the Brandeis team, comprised of Matthew A. Brookner, Eliana Chapman and Janet Krasner Aronson, used the most advanced research techniques to provide us with a high-quality survey, which produced reliable findings. More than 1,000 respondents participated in the study. It allowed us to gain important insights into contemporary Jewish life—the beliefs, practices, values and rituals that add meaning for our core constituencies and the many subgroups of our community. This data will enable our own strategic planning, and will also prove helpful to agencies, synagogues, the Jewish day school, and other Jewish service and funding organizations. Federation is releasing the community study results to inspire a healthy and robust conversation that amplifies our community’s strengths. The information contained within this report will be the catalyst to address the many opportunities and challenges the study highlights. We are grateful to many people who helped bring this study to fruition. Our sincere thanks to our president, Michael Ritter, and CEO, Howard Tevlowitz, whose leadership made this study a priority. We also thank the individual respondents, and our community partners for their participation and support of this project. Federation is grateful to the Community Foundation of Sarasota County for their generous grant in support of this initiative. Most of all, we extend our deep appreciation and gratitude to Marsha Eisenberg for chairing the study committee and advisory group, to Dr. Linda Silver and Kim Mullins as the Federation professionals leading this effort, and to the committee members who dedicated their time and energy to creating a study with results that will benefit our entire Jewish community.

Jewish Federation Acknowledgments

We would also like to thank our study committee members: Lenny Drexler, Liz Gellis, Stacy Hanan, Bart Levenson, Rod Margolis, and Alan Silverglat. In addition, we are grateful to our advisory group members: Isaac Azerad, Heidi Brown, Kris Brzostek, Linda Buxbaum, Su Byron, Amy Meese, Ronnie Riceberg, Kim Sheintal, Jay Solomon, and Rabbi Michael Werbow. We invite you to review these findings and assist our Federation as we plan for the future of our Sarasota-Manatee Jewish community. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to be involved in further discussions, please contact Kim Mullins, Chief Operating Officer, at 941.552.6300 or [email protected]

CMJS/SSRI Acknowledgments

The Brandeis research team is grateful to the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee for the opportunity to collaborate and conduct the 2019 community study. The study was proposed and sponsored by the Federation, whose staff, Board of Directors, and Community Study Committee provided valuable input on the study design, questionnaire, and report. We are particularly grateful to Chief Executive Officer, Howard Tevlowitz, former Chief Human Resources Officer Linda Silver, Chief Operations Officer Kim Mullins, Board of Directors President Michael Ritter, and Community Study Committee Chair Marsha Eisenberg. They helped us learn about the community and ensured that our work would be of the highest quality and utility for the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish community. We also thank the 1,038 respondents who completed the survey. Without their willingness to spend time answering numerous questions about their lives, there could be no study. The University of New Hampshire Survey Center served as the call center for this study. We are grateful for the efforts of Zachary Azem, who acted as our main point of contact and was the survey instrument programmer and supervisor for data collection. Sean McKinley was instrumental in testing the survey. Robert Durant and Carolyn Lamb managed the calling operation, including training and supervising callers, fielding callbacks, and countless other tasks. We would also like to thank the many callers who collected data from respondents. Director of the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Steinhardt Social Research Institute Professor Leonard Saxe provided critical guidance and support throughout this process. We are also appreciative of a large team of our colleagues and students at Brandeis University who assisted us with the study. Matthew Feinberg managed logistics, combined and deduplicated membership and mailing lists, and ensured that the sample drawn for the study met all criteria. Harry Aaronson led efforts to code responses to open-ended questions on the survey. He also helped prepare tables and figures throughout the report and organized the quotes used in chapter 9. Elizabeth Tighe, Raquel Magidin de Kramer, and Daniel Parmer led the efforts to develop an estimate of the adult Jewish-by-religion population of Sarasota-Manatee as part of the Steinhardt Institute’s American Jewish Population Project. Yi He, Hannah Taylor, Camille Evans, and Harry Abrahams helped code responses to open-ended questions. Deborah Grant provided editorial advice and assistance and, with Harry Aaronson, prepared the report for publication. Finally, we thank Masha Lokshin and Ilana Friedman for their logistical and editorial support throughout the study.

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................. 1

Demographics .................................................................................................................................. 2

Geography ........................................................................................................................................ 2

Jewish Engagement ......................................................................................................................... 3

Jewish Children ................................................................................................................................ 4

Synagogue and Ritual Life .............................................................................................................. 4

Social and Communal Life ............................................................................................................. 4

Connections to Israel ...................................................................................................................... 5

Financial Well-Being and Health Needs ...................................................................................... 5

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Community in 2019 ............................ 7

History ............................................................................................................................................... 8

Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 8

Undercounted Populations .......................................................................................................... 10

How to Read This Report ............................................................................................................ 10

Reporting Qualitative Data .......................................................................................................... 11

Comparisons across Surveys ........................................................................................................ 11

Report Overview ........................................................................................................................... 11

Report Appendices ........................................................................................................................ 12

Chapter 2. Demographic Snapshot of the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Community ................... 13

The Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Community Population Estimates, 2019 ............................... 13

Jewish Population Estimate ......................................................................................................... 13

Jewish Adults .................................................................................................................................. 14

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Definitions ....................................................................................................................................... 15

Jewish Households ........................................................................................................................ 16

People in Jewish Households....................................................................................................... 16

Age and Gender Composition ..................................................................................................... 17

Household Composition .............................................................................................................. 19

Geographic Distribution .............................................................................................................. 20

Regional Definitions...................................................................................................................... 20

Residency and Length of Residence ........................................................................................... 23

Extended Family in the Region ................................................................................................... 23

Year-Round and Seasonal Resident Definitions ....................................................................... 23

Seasonal Population ...................................................................................................................... 23

Jewish Denominations .................................................................................................................. 26

Inmarriage and Intermarriage ...................................................................................................... 27

Inmarriage and Intermarriage Definitions ................................................................................. 27

Chapter 3. Patterns of Jewish Engagement ................................................................................... 29

Background: Classifications of Jewish Identity ......................................................................... 29

Index of Jewish Engagement ....................................................................................................... 30

How We Developed These Categories ...................................................................................... 32

Patterns of Jewish Engagement ................................................................................................... 31

Jewish Behaviors and Jewish Engagement ................................................................................ 32

Demographics and Jewish Engagement ..................................................................................... 34

Jewish Background and Jewish Engagement ............................................................................ 35

Attitudes about Being Jewish and Jewish Engagement ........................................................... 37

Attitudes about Jewish Community ............................................................................................ 40

Feelings of Jewish Peoplehood .................................................................................................... 43

Chapter 4. Jewish Children ............................................................................................................... 45

Jewish Children .............................................................................................................................. 45

Religion of Children by Household Characteristics ................................................................. 46

Participation in Jewish Education ............................................................................................... 46

Chapter 5. Synagogue and Ritual Life ............................................................................................. 49

Synagogues and Congregations ................................................................................................... 49

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Congregation Types ...................................................................................................................... 51

Synagogue Participation ................................................................................................................ 53

Ritual Practices ............................................................................................................................... 53

Chapter 6. Social and Communal Life ............................................................................................ 57

Jewish Organizations ..................................................................................................................... 57

Jewish and Non-Jewish Programs ............................................................................................... 59

Sources of Information ................................................................................................................. 61

Volunteering ................................................................................................................................... 62

Philanthropy ................................................................................................................................... 62

Informal Involvement in the Jewish Community ..................................................................... 66

Informal and Cultural Activities .................................................................................................. 66

Antisemitism ................................................................................................................................... 71

Chapter 7. Connections to Israel ..................................................................................................... 75

Travel and Emotional Connection to Israel .............................................................................. 75

Types of Israel Travel ................................................................................................................... 77

News about Israel .......................................................................................................................... 80

Chapter 8. Financial Well-Being and Health Needs ..................................................................... 81

Educational Attainment and Employment ................................................................................ 81

Economic Well-Being ................................................................................................................... 82

Economic Insecurity and Poverty ............................................................................................... 82

Health Status and Needs............................................................................................................... 86

Caregiving and Elderly Residents ................................................................................................ 88

Health Limitations and Jewish Life ............................................................................................. 89

Chapter 9. In the Words of Community Members ...................................................................... 91

Religious, Spiritual, and Cultural Life ......................................................................................... 91

Social Environment ....................................................................................................................... 92

Communication and Outreach .................................................................................................... 94

Regional Limitations...................................................................................................................... 94

Recreation ....................................................................................................................................... 95

Kosher Food .................................................................................................................................. 95

Looking Toward the Future ......................................................................................................... 95

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List of Figures and Tables

Figure 2.1. Growth over time in Jewish community size ............................................................. 14

Figure 2.2. Age-gender distribution of Jews in Sarasota-Manatee .............................................. 18

Figure 2.3. Household composition ................................................................................................ 19

Figure 2.4. Regional definitions ........................................................................................................ 21

Figure 2.5. Dot density map of Jewish households in Sarasota-Manatee .................................. 22

Figure 3.1 Patterns of Jewish engagement ...................................................................................... 32

Figure 3.2 Being Jewish is a matter of ethnicity and culture ....................................................... 37

Figure 3.3 Being Jewish is a matter of religion ............................................................................. 38

Figure 3.4 Essential aspects of being Jewish ................................................................................. 39

Figure 3.5 Being Jewish is part of daily life..................................................................................... 40

Figure 3.6 Connections to local and worldwide Jewish community ........................................... 41

Figure 3.7 Being Jewish is a matter of community ........................................................................ 41

Figure 3.8 Community is an essential aspect of being Jewish ...................................................... 42

Figure 3.9 Sense of belonging to Jewish people and feeling connected to other Jews ............ 43

Figure 3.10 Being comfortable in Jewish places of worship and feeling responsible to care

for Jews in need ........................................................................................................................... 43

Figure 4.1. Marital status of parents of children in Jewish households ...................................... 46

Figure 4.2. Religion raised, children of inmarriage ........................................................................ 47

Figure 4.3. Religion raised, children of intermarriage ................................................................... 47

Figure 6.1. Involvement in Sarasota-Manatee Jewish and non-Jewish organizations .............. 59

Figure 6.2. Jewish friends .................................................................................................................. 67

Figure 7.1. Frequency of Israel travel .............................................................................................. 76

Figure 7.2. Emotional connection to Israel .................................................................................... 77

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Figure 7.3. Sought news about Israel during past month ............................................................. 80

Figure 8.1. Educational attainment .................................................................................................. 81

Table 1.1 Summary of survey respondents ....................................................................................... 9

Table 2.1. Jewish population of Sarasota-Manatee, summary .................................................... 16

Table 2.2. Jewish population of Sarasota-Manatee, detail ............................................................ 17

Table 2.3. Age of Jewish adults in Sarasota-Manatee 2019 and 2001 and US Jewish

community .................................................................................................................................... 18

Table 2.4. Geographic distribution of Sarasota-Manatee Jewish households ........................... 22

Table 2.5. Geographic region of Jewish adults and children by age ........................................... 23

Table 2.6. Adults of Sarasota-Manatee by seasonality .................................................................. 24

Table 2.7. Age of adults in Jewish households by seasonality ..................................................... 24

Table 2.8. Geographic distribution by seasonality ......................................................................... 25

Table 2.9. Age by denomination of Jewish adults ......................................................................... 26

Table 2.10. Denomination of Jews in 2019 compared to 2001 and the US Jewish

community .................................................................................................................................... 26

Table 2.11. Age of Jewish respondent by inmarriage .................................................................. 27

Table 3.1. Behaviors of each engagement group ........................................................................... 33

Table 3.2 Age by Jewish engagement .............................................................................................. 34

Table 3.3 Marriage and children by Jewish engagement ............................................................... 34

Table 3.4 Residence by Jewish engagement ................................................................................... 35

Table 3.5 Denomination by Jewish engagement ........................................................................... 36

Table 3.6 Jewish background by Jewish engagement .................................................................... 36

Table 4.1. Religion of children in Jewish households ................................................................... 45

Table 4.3. Children raised Jewish by household characteristics .................................................. 47

Table 4.4. Children in formal Jewish education in the past year ................................................. 48

Table 4.5. Children in informal education in past two years ....................................................... 48

Table 5.1. Synagogue membership .................................................................................................. 50

Table 5.2 Household membership in congregations of different types .................................... 52

Table 5.3 Denomination of local brick-and-mortar synagogues ................................................. 53

Table 5.4 Synagogue participation ................................................................................................... 54

Table 5.5 Ritual practice .................................................................................................................... 55

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Table 5.6 Jewish adult ritual practice in Sarasota-Manatee 2019, Sarasota-Manatee 2001,

and Pew 2013 ............................................................................................................................... 56

Table 6.1. Household memberships ................................................................................................ 58

Table 6.2. Involvement in Sarasota-Manatee Jewish organizations ............................................ 60

Table 6.3. Travel time for Jewish programs ................................................................................... 61

Table 6.4. Sources of Information ................................................................................................... 62

Table 6.5. Volunteering in Sarasota-Manatee ................................................................................. 63

Table 6.6. Very important causes of interest .................................................................................. 64

Table 6.7. Philanthropy ..................................................................................................................... 65

Table 6.8. Donors to types of Jewish organizations ..................................................................... 66

Table 6.9. At least half of closest friends are Jewish ..................................................................... 68

Table 6.10a. Participation in informal and cultural activities in past month ............................. 69

Table 6.10b. Participation in informal and cultural activities in past month ............................. 70

Table 6.11. Concerned about antisemitism, very much ................................................................ 71

Table 6.12. Types of antisemitic experiences ................................................................................. 72

Table 7.1. Travel and emotional connection to Israel .................................................................. 78

Table 7.2. Types of Israel travel ....................................................................................................... 79

Table 8.1. Standard of living ............................................................................................................. 81

Table 8.2. Household income ........................................................................................................... 82

Table 8.3. Economic needs: Summary ............................................................................................ 84

Table 8.4. Economic insecurity by household characteristics ..................................................... 85

Table 8.5. Health challenges for anyone in household ................................................................. 85

Table 8.6. Type of health issue, special need, or disability ........................................................... 88

Table 8.7. Health limitations to Jewish life ..................................................................................... 89

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Executive Summary

The 2019 Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Community Study, conducted by the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (CMJS) and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute (SSRI) at Brandeis University, employed innovative, state-of-the-art methods to create a comprehensive portrait of the characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors of present-day Sarasota-Manatee Jewry. Some of the issues explored in the study grew out of conversations surrounding the Pew Research Center’s A Portrait of Jewish Americans (2013), which pointed to growing and shrinking US Jewish sub-populations, declining affiliation in traditional institutions, new forms of Jewish engagement, a rise of both secular and Orthodox Jews, and a relationship between intermarriage and community growth.1 With the Pew study and the related national discourse as a backdrop, the dynamics of Sarasota-Manatee’s Jewish community took on added significance. The principal goal of this study was to provide valid data about the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish community that could be used by communal organizations and their leadership to design programs and policies that support and enhance Jewish life. Valid data are essential to effective decision making, allocation of resources, strategic priorities, community support, robust participation, and outreach. Specifically, the study sought to: Estimate the number of Jewish adults and children in the community and the number of non-

Jewish adults and children who are part of those households Describe the community in terms of age and gender, geographic distribution, economic well-

being, and other sociodemographic characteristics Measure participation in community programs and institutional Judaism and underst