Population Study To Brandeis?

Jewish Week, The, April, 2005 by Cohen, Debra Nussbaum

Cohen, Debra Nussbaum The Jewish Week 04-01-2005 Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt is donating $12 million to a new center for the study of the Jewish community to be housed at Brandeis University, The Jewish Week has learned. While the head of the new center, sociologist Len Saxe of Brandeis, declined to provide details of its plans, the project is expected to be formally announced soon. The development comes at a time when questions are being raised about the future of the National Jewish Population Study, the massive and problem-plagued survey that has been conducted once a decade and provides communal policy planners with information about where and how Jews live in America.

Until now it has been funded and housed by the United Jewish Communities. ...

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