Top 10 U.S. Colleges With the Most Jews as a Percentage of the Student Population

          University                               Percent Jewish

1. Yeshiva University               100% 
2. Brandeis University              55.2% 
3. Barnard College                    43.5% 
4. Northwestern University      38.0% 
5. University of Hartford           33.3% 
6. Washington University         33.0% 
7. Emory University                  30.0% 
8. George Washington Univ.   30.0% 
9. Muhlenberg College            30.0% 
10. Queens College                    30.0% 

* Yale also has a 30.0% Jewish population. Information retrieved from http://reformjudaismmag.org/_kd/Items/ actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=1380&destination= ShowItem (retrieved on September 7, 2011).

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The Top 10 U.S. Colleges With the Most Jews

           College                                                     Number of Jews 

1. University of Maryland College Park     6,500 
2. University of Florida Gainesville            6,000 
3. Rutgers University                                    5,000 
4. University of Central Florida                   5,000 
5. University of Michigan Ann Arbor          4,500 
6. Pennsylvania State University               4,000 
7. University of Wisconsin, Madison         4,000 
8. New York University                                4,000 
9. Queens College                                       3,850 
10. CUNY, Brooklyn College                       3,500 

* Information from http://reformjudaismmag.org/ _kd/Items/actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=1380& destination= ShowItem (retrieved on September 7, 2011).

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Top 10 Cities in the U.S. With the Most Jews as a Percentage of the Total Population

City, State                                            Percent Jewish 
New York, NY                                     9.6% 
Miami, FL                                             8.7% 
Las Vegas, NV                                    4.8% 
Philadelphia, PA                                 4.6% 
Boston, MA                                           4.3% 
Los Angeles, CA                                 4.1% 
Washington D.C./Baltimore, MD       3.6% 
San Francisco, CA                              3.1% 
Sarasota, FL                                         3.0% 
Hartford, CT                                          2.9% 

* Note that none of these cities made the Top 10 list of cities with the highest percentage of Jews outside of Israel. Information from http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2010/12/01/jewish-cities.html (retrieved on September 7, 2011).

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The Top 10 Cities Outside of Israel With the Most Jews as a Percentage of the Total Population

         City, Country                                        Percent Jewish

1. Hampstead, Canada                         74% 
2. Côte Saint-Luc, Canada                   69% 
3. Dover Heights, Australia                   49% 
4. Caulfield, Australia                            44% 
5. Alwoodley, England                          30% 
6. Westmount, Canada                          23% 
7. Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada        21% 
8. Vaughan, Canada                              18% 
9. Outremont, Canada                            15% 
10. Montreal West, Canada                     14% 

* Information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Jewish_population_by_cities_and_city_areas (retrieved on September 7, 2011).

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The Top 10 Cities With The Most Jews

          City                  Population

1. Tel Aviv           2,560,000 
2. New York        1,970,000 
3. Haifa                   655,000 
4. Los Angeles       621,000 
5. Jerusalem          570,000 
6. Miami                  514,000 
7. Paris                   310,000 
8. Philadelphia      276,000 
9. Chicago             261,000 
10. Boston                227,000 

* City population statistics vary depending on what is included in the metropolitan area of the city, as well as the usual issues of who counts as Jewish. Information from http://www.simpletoremember.com/ vitals/world-jewish-population.htm (retrieved on September 7, 2011).

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The Top 10 Countries with the Most Jews as a Percentage of Their Total Population

          Country                            Percent Jewish 

1. Israel                                 75.5% 
2. United States                     1.7% 
3. Canada                               1.1% 
4. France                                 0.8% 
5. Uruguay                               0.8% 
6. United Kingdom                 0.5% 
7. Argentina                             0.4% 
8. Australia                              0.3% 
9. Chile                                    0.2% 
10. Russia                                 0.1% 

* Germany, Brazil South Africa, Hungary, Switzerland, Belarus, Venezuela and New Zealand also have a Jewish population of 0.1%. Information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population (retrieved on September 7, 2011).

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The Top 10 Countries with the Most Jews by Total Population

          Country                      Population

1. Israel                          5,703,700 
2. United States            5,275,000 
3. France                       483,500 
4. Canada                     375,000 
5. United Kingdom       292,000 
6. Russia                       205,000 
7. Argentina                  182,300 
8. Germany                   119,000 
9. Australia                    107,500 
10. Brazil                          95,600

* These numbers vary depending on who did the counting, how they did it, and what criteria they used to determine who is Jewish. Information on this list is from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.com (last retrieved September 7, 2011).

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