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It is examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic resources as well as Jewish honorees, obituaries and major recent events. It should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers and the press, among others. Part I Forum on the Pew Survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans1 Are You “Pewish”? Multiple Assessments of the Landmark Pew SurveyArnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin2 Executive SummaryPew Research Center3 Rhetoric About the Diverse Jewish Community Sarah Bunin Benor4 The Shrinking Jewish Middle Steven M. Cohen5 End of Jewish/Non-Jewish Dichotomy? Evidence from the 2013 Pew SurveySergio DellaPergola6 The 2013 Pew Report Through a Gender LensHarriet Hartman7 The Americanness of American JewsSamuel Heilman8 Assimilation Anxieties and the Case of American Jews Bethamie Horowitz9 A Policy of Surveys Ari Y. Kelman10 It’s the Best of Times: It’s the Worst of Times Barry A. Kosmin11 Jews Who Count: Putting Pew in Historical Perspective Deborah Dash Moore12 Pew’s Portrait of American Jewry: A Reassessment of the Assimilation Narrative Leonard Saxe , Theodore Sasson , and Janet Krasner Aronson13 Response: Pew Research CenterAlan Cooperman and Gregory A. SmithPart II Review Articles14 Gender in American Jewish Life Sylvia Barack Fishman15 National Affairs: January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 Ethan Felson16 Jewish Communal Affairs: April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 Lawrence Grossman17 Jewish Population in the United States, 2014 Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky18 The Demography of Canadian Jewry, the “Census” of 2011: Challenges and Results Morton Weinfeld and Randal F. Schnoor19 World Jewish Population, 2014Sergio DellaPergolaPart III Jewish Lists20 Jewish Institutions: Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Social Service Agencies, National Jewish Organizations, Synagogues, College Hillels, Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Overnight Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, Memorials and MonumentsIra Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky21 Jewish Press: National Jewish Periodicals, Broadcast Media, Local Jewish PeriodicalsIra Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky22 Academic Resources: Jewish Studies Programs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs, Jewish Social Work Programs, Major Books, Scholarly Articles, Websites and Jewish Organizations, Judaic and Holocaust Research Libraries Arnold Dashefsky , Ira Sheskin , and Pamela J. Weathers23 Transitions: Major Events, Persons Honored, Obituaries Ira Sheskin , Arnold Dashefsky , and Pamela J. Weathers