Daniel Staetsky, at The Blogs

Jul 19, 2023, 11:28 AM

COVID-19 and Jews: A reply to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

It is easy to laugh at alternative explanations of the origin of COVID-19. It is easy to brand them as conspiracy theories, and some of them may be. It is more demanding to respond to them properly, with facts....

Nov 8, 2022, 7:17 AM

Israeli elections and the wheels of demography

Israeli politics no longer has what is called the ‘Left’. In truth, the Israeli Left has been declining for a while. Both Avodah and Meretz, its most iconic figures, have become increasingly unpopular even in their traditional strongholds. Centrist...

Sep 14, 2022, 7:13 AM

A response to the Haredi education scandal

It is that time of year again. The American and the British and the Jewish world are being reminded of the Haredi existence. The precise topic is another Haredi education scandal. You see, there are many ways in which...

Sep 6, 2022, 7:11 PM

Do Western sanctions against Russia work?

The state of war between Russian and Ukraine commenced in 2014. The annexation of Crimea was a watershed event from which we count. The most recent development of that war was the military invasion of Eastern and Southern Ukraine...

May 13, 2021, 7:15 AM

How many American Jews are out there?

Another bright star in the sky of the demographic research and the American Jewry: Pew Research Center just released the result of the survey of American Jews putting their number at 7.5 million. It is their second survey. The...

Mar 30, 2021, 12:10 AM

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An ode to matza

When I was a child in the USSR, nobody knew why we ate this unusual burnt thing, or even that it was instead of bread, but it was tangible and through it, we 'kept' Passover

Nov 5, 2020, 4:51 PM

Global Jewish support for Donald Trump

Globally, Jewish support for Trump is not universal, but it is still very considerable. According to the latest surveys, in Israel- home to the largest Jewish population in the world- Trump's candidacy is supported by about 70% of Jews....

Apr 23, 2020, 12:36 AM

Was Lenin Jewish?

Vladimir Ilych Lenin, the leader of the Russian revolution, was born on 22 April 1870. Anyone educated in a Soviet school, will always remember April as ‘Lenin’s month’. The commemorative activities would typically run for several weeks running up...

Mar 31, 2020, 2:02 AM

Jews and coronavirus

Jews are ‘longlifers’. Everywhere in the world Jews live longer than the non-Jews around them. Jewish men in Israel have one of the highest life expectancies in the world. In 2017, they could expect to live to 81 years,...

Feb 11, 2020, 3:59 PM

Israel’s Jewish Population: notes on a scandal

‘People came to Israel from all sorts of places. Some of them came from the world of Viennese concerts and have this kind of mindset and others – have the mindset of the places where darbuka is played’. This...

About Me

The author is a demographer and a statistician, born in the USSR - a world that no longer exists - and educated in Israel and Britain. The author holds a PhD in Social Statistics and Demography. To date he has served in senior analytical roles in the Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel) and RAND Europe (Cambridge, UK). He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (London, UK). He has published widely on Jewish , Israeli and European demography and social statistics. The author's favourite topics are demographic and social puzzles involving Jews and people that surround them-why do Jews live so long? why do Muslim Arabs in Israel have so many children? why do women-globally- live longer than men? Is there a link between the classic old-fashioned antisemitism and today's antizionism? These are just a few examples of questions that motivated some of his work and on which he has written extensively. Dr Daniel Staetsky is an owner of the website 'Jewish World in Data' which is a unique depository of data and factual commentary in Jewish demography and statistics.

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