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www.baldwinschool.org The study will look at five
counties — Philadelphia,
Bucks, Chester, Delaware
and Montgomery.

Almost 300,000 Jews live in the Greater
Washington, D.C., area — the third-largest Jewish
community in the country. Jews living in the metro
D.C. area are younger than the national Jewish pop-
ulation; the median age of D.C.-area Jewish adults is
45, younger than the national median age of 50. The
community is also diverse: Seven percent identify as
LGBTQ, and another 7 percent identify as a person
of color or Hispanic/Latino.

Adam and Sara Laver are co-chairing the com-
mittee overseeing Philadelphia’s population study.

“We’re very excited about having a terrific out-
side firm that isn’t necessarily one of the usual firms
that handle these types of studies,” Adam Laver
noted. “It’s very important to Sara and me and to the
leadership at [Jewish] Federation that this be mean-
ingful, and we’re aware of past shortcomings in pop-
ulation studies that we in the Greater Philadelphia
Jewish community have commissioned.”
They’re also aware of the studies commissioned
by other Jewish federations, which he said call into
question “how helpful they might be, and if they
really are representative of Jewish populations in
those areas.”
Other committees include a lay leadership and
a technical advisory committee, which includes
people like Sergio Della Pergola, world-renowned
demographer of Hebrew University of Jerusalem;
Larry Eichel, director of Pew Charitable Trusts’
Philadelphia research initiative; Kevin Gillen, senior
research fellow of the Lindy Institute for Urban
Innovation at Drexel University; and a host of oth-
ers, all lending their efforts to the Jewish Federation.

Laver said they will help “refine and hone down
and, to the best of our ability, make this meaning-
ful so that we can further the work of our Jewish
Federation.” Even if the findings came back with some unfa-
vorable data, he said it’s still significant to discover
where the needs of the community lie, like with the
Holocaust survivor community.

“Are we meeting their needs here in the
Philadelphia region?” he asked. “Can we even know



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