Demographic Data
Jews started to migrate from Europe in the mid-1800s. In America, most of the Jewish are descendants of immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe, which are called Ashkenazi Jews. Sephardic Jews are a more diverse group that comes from South and Central America, the Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal and North Africa. Jewish …show more content…
The conservatives are traditional, follows more Jewish laws. They attend to the synagogue on Friday evening and abstained to work on Saturdays. Men wear a head cover that is called kippah at all times, is considered a reverence to God. Women wear dresses with long sleeves. The Reform Jews are tied only to the moral laws of the Torah. They practice fewer rituals, celebrate holidays and preserve an ethnic identity. The last group, the hasidic (orthodox) the most identifiable of all because of their black hats, full beards, dark clothes and uncut hair around the ears (Purnell,