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I wish these studies, whether national or local, would delve into Jewish identity vis-a-vis how they classify themselves in the census. It would be interesting to see how many Jewish New Yorkers select "German," which is the third largest European ancestry group in Manhattan not too far behind Irish and Italian. In Nassau County, the fact that the German population is larger than the Polish and Russian populations combined is also telling.

Back to LA, I didn't realize that of the 125,000 Iranians that live in the CSA, only about 20% of them are Jewish (if the 2021 study is correct). Equally surprising is the finding that Hebrew is spoken in more households than Farsi, and that 27,500 have Israeli citizenship. Unless Greater NYC has 82,500 Israeli passports (which would mean the Israeli-born population being outnumbered by those born outside Israel — unlikely)... it's pretty fair (and cool) to think that Israeli/Mizrahi culture defines LA Jewry more than in NYC, where Eastern European / Ashkenazim is dominant. A contiguous Israeli community of about 6,750 lives in Valley Glen, Valley Village, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, Woodland Hills, and West Hills — population 380,000. That's more Israelis than in each of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Nassau County — all of which have substantially larger total populations.