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Originally Posted by Mynydd
Brazil - 98,000]
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Just in the main center (Porto Alegre) of my state (Rio Grande do Sul) the jews live in 3 of the biggest neighbourhoods of the city - as well as schools, sinagogues, clubs, etc. Porto Alegre has almost 2 million of inhabitants (more than 3 million in the metropolitan area), hence, there are probably more than 35.000~50.000 jews living in Porto Alegre.
Every brazilian big city has jews - so, therefore, I believe the number of the jews in Brazil is much more near from 500.000 than to 98.000. Years ago government made a research that pointed 300.000 jews living here... I don't know where are they now, bot obviously they were not murdered in gas chambers.
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Originally Posted by Gottslav
The problem is that, according to a survey, mere 8% of Jews in Russia follow Judaism as their religion, with most of the others appearing to be atheists, Christians and even buddhists.
I suspect 275,000 is a number of practicing Judaists. Make your own calculations and you will obtain more or less trustworthy number.
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Probably that's the reason we get such low numbers - even in US of A. It's an interesting phenomena that they are declaring themselves atheists, buddhists... bah, perhaps in the future we'll see a jewish pagan movement uprising.
(ooops, it already exists... it's called "Wicca"
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