Posted on 10/25/2010 2:20:27 PM PDT by Nachum
The Jewish population is slowly disappearing in Russia, with a demographic expert predicting as much as a 25 percent drop in the latest census figures. The vast majority of Jewish children are the offspring of mixed marriages.
Mark Kupovetsky, a specialist on Russian Jewish demography, told the RIA Novosti news agency in Moscow last week that he estimated current figures would show up to 60,000 fewer Jews than were found during the 2002 census.
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emigration surely a factor
They have all moved to North Miami Beach. Oy!
Old Cold War era joke:
Leonid Brezhnev was getting tired of all the Jews complaining about not being able to emigrate to Israel, so he asks an aide “How many Jews do I have in the USSR?”
“20 million” says the aide.
“And if I allow emigration, how many will leave?” asks Brezhnev.
“40 million.”
Reading the article, I was surprised at how few there were in 1959.
The rest of Russia is fading away too. Been that way for some time now. And they have only themselves to blame.
It’s called “aliyah”
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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A significant number now Israelis, though not all Jews.
Many are leaving. Won’t tell you how many Russian women claiming to be Jewish have emailed me on dating sites.
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