According to the 2013 Pew Research Center survey on the Jews of the United States, only 31 percent of Jewish adults belong to a synagogue or temple, 22 percent of American Jews identify as "Jews of no religion" (Jewish solely by ancestry, with no connection to the Jewish religion), and while 56 per cent of the general public in the United States say that religion is very important in their lives, only 26 per cent of the country's Jews feel the same way.
Statistics are only part of the story. What do we know about the minority of the Jews of the United States who are involved in religious life? What does their synagogue life look like?
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