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Jewish Cities Quiz

Name the world metro areas that have the highest Jewish population.
According to Wikipedia
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Last updated: June 9, 2017
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First submittedJuly 18, 2011
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# Jews
City
3,214,800
Tel Aviv
2,028,200
New York City
708,000
Haifa
687,000
Jerusalem
662,450
Los Angeles
535,000
Miami
381,900
Beersheba
# Jews
City
291,800
Chicago
285,950
Philadelphia
283,000
Paris
276,445
Washington D.C.
261,100
Boston
244,000
Buenos Aires
228,000
San Francisco
# Jews
City
200,000
Toronto
199,000
Atlanta
172,000
London
100,000
Moscow
89,000
San Diego
88,765
Montreal
42 Comments
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Level 49
Jul 18, 2011
according to wiki 95% of the people in Ashdod are Jewish
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Level 18
Feb 8, 2012
I am a fail.
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Level 31
May 31, 2012
Typing in Berlin cos you're M3NT4L.
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Level 80
Dec 8, 2020
I tried Berlin too; it seemed like a good guess. It's a major European city. London and Paris is here, so why not Berlin?
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Level 74
Dec 14, 2020
ever heard of... holocaust?
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Level 80
Jan 12, 2021
But it was so long ago
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Level 69
Jun 1, 2023
Germany has one of the highest population of Jews in the world. I think top 10 even.
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Level 44
Mar 8, 2021
People tend to remember those sorts of things... Also, it's not like there are a bunch of Jews who play city roulette every decade and move to a major city. People tend to stick to the cities they're born in, or at the least the countries they're born in.
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Level 90
Mar 6, 2024
I’m Jewish and I still tried Berlin. There’s an Israeli community there and a Jewish one.
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Level 72
Jan 30, 2013
I'd be curious to see where the quizmaster got this information from. Growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa - there is a very large Jewish community, so much so that there are a number of Jewish schools all over. Not saying the figures are wrong, I'd just be interested to see how large the Jewish population in Johannesburg is.
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Level 74
Mar 7, 2013
Take a look at this website - http://www.citypopulation.de/Israel.html

Non-Jews are about 15-20% of the total population, but the overwhelming majority live in one of the 3 major urban areas (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa) or in urban areas with minimal numbers of Jews (Nazareth, for instance).

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Level 66
Apr 14, 2015
I'm guessing that Tel Aviv includes Rishon LeTzion, even though they are separate cities???
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Level 86
Nov 4, 2015
And Ashdod and Petah Tikva and Netanya etc. It's very encompassing.
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Level 44
Mar 8, 2021
Metro areas
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Level 50
Nov 11, 2015
I think the Miami one is way off!
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Level 63
May 28, 2016
I all got all except Baltimore. Thought it was included in D.C.
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Level 61
Oct 5, 2016
Baltimore and D.C. are often included in the same metropolitan area (though sometimes they aren't), but the quiz specifies that it's the city itself excluding metro area
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Level 72
Mar 1, 2021
OK, the quiz has been revised. Where did all the Baltimore Jews go?
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Level 67
Jun 7, 2016
In 1939 Warsaw would have been 2nd on this list. In fact, many of the top cities would be in Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic States. It should be remembered that it was not only the SS who played a role in changing this but also Nazi collaborators who organized pogroms against the Jews. Footage of this happening during Operation Barbarossa can still be found.
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Level 61
Oct 5, 2016
This quiz becomes a lot easier when you realize you can get half of the answers by guessing large American cities :)
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Level 59
Feb 18, 2021
Almost have of all Jews live in the U.S.
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Level 72
Aug 30, 2017
I don't think this can be correct. Ashdod and Ashkelon should both be there.
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Level 61
Sep 3, 2017
Would be interesting to pair this quiz with one asking about Jewish cities 100 years ago.
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Level 78
Sep 3, 2017
Hey Quizmaster! How do you put images in quizzes, like in KoljiVriVoda's Partial Flag Image quizzes? I would like to do some quizzes like those myself.
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Level ∞
Sep 4, 2017
You can do it by using html tags. For example:

<img src="http://www.something.com/image.jpg">

However, we don't approve most image quizzes because of a variety of issues including

1) Copyright restrictions (the main one)

2) Images that are larger than necessary

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Level 35
Sep 3, 2017
My score: 17/20.

I've missed Montréal, Atlanta and Be'er Sheva, while I've guessed cities as San Diego and Buenos Aires.

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Level 61
Sep 3, 2017
"The Angels?"
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Level 33
Sep 3, 2017
I got 12/20 and thought that would be good, but I didn't beat many people. I am quite surprised about Moscow being there though
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Level 46
Sep 5, 2017
I was just putting in stupid, big cities for no reason tryna find out the last few... Tokyo, no... Beijing, no... Buenos Aires, WHAT?!?!?!
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Level 81
Oct 22, 2019
you should read up on the history of the city sometime. Interesting place.
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Level 55
Aug 22, 2021
Buenos Aires is basically 99% asian and european immigrants descent.
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Level 76
Sep 17, 2017
Beersheba is wrong. According to Wikipedia, the population of Beersheba includes 177,000 Jews. Beersheba "Metropolitan Area" - which is a massive area that stretches out across the desert to include the towns of Sderot, Arad and Dimona, has 212,000 Jews, still a lot less than the 381,900 figure shown in this quiz.
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Level 43
Oct 21, 2017
I'm surprised L.A. isn't 3rd, grew up there...
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Level 83
Aug 19, 2020
I really don't get where the numbers come from. You say Wikipedia but they seem to think Tel Aviv is a city and so is Ramat Gam (they are right). Where would Netanya be? Haifa (60km away), Tel Aviv (30km away)? There are 200,000 people there who would love to sell their apartments for Tel Aviv prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country#Jewish_population_by_city

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Level 51
Nov 10, 2020
Can you please accept "Be'er" and "Beer" for Beersheba?
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Level 38
Mar 1, 2021
i only got Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
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Level 82
Jan 13, 2022
I guessed all the Israeli cities I knew, and then the largest North American and European cities and got 17/20.
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Level 66
Aug 17, 2022
I think you folks attempting to either condemn or defend "religion" need to check out Unitarian Universalism. They do not have a creed because they don't expect everyone to believe the same way. They do have covenants which they trust their congregants to promote. The first is to respect the inherent dignity and worth of every human. The 7th is to have respect for the "interdependent web of all existence." Read them all and then defend your view that "Religion of any kind is a cancer of our civilization" or that religion can't be a "choose your own adventure." UU includes Buddhists and atheists, Christians and humanists. I do agree with Kalba... that recognizing good and evil does not require the presence of "God." I think we are capable of a somewhat "objective secular morality." K is also correct that enormous evil has been done in the name of religion throughout history. But Amma 14's response is excellent.

Thanks to all for food for thought!

Social media spreads good AND evil!

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Level 81
Sep 29, 2022
Unitarianism seems like nonsense to me, too. I mean, some of what they preach sounds nice at first blush, but... the many religious traditions they claim are equally deserving of respect and reverence, and worth drawing inspiration and wisdom from, are all mutually contradictory, and also usually dogmatic and opposed to true wisdom or enlightenment. So... makes no sense to try and incorporate all of them. Just a bunch of superficial flowery mumbo jumbo that ignores and sugar-coats the harm that such belief systems do to the world and individuals.

I remember back when I was a devout Christian myself, writing a research paper on cults, my first exposure to Universalism was through Christian books that painted it as a dangerous cult. That was probably the worst research paper I ever wrote. Had some pretty bad sources.

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Level 50
Sep 12, 2022
There has to be some irony in Buenos Aires, the capital of a country that took in numerous Nazis after the war, being on this list, *especially* since many of the Jewish people in the city also came after the war
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Level 69
Jun 1, 2023
Cry about it
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Level 67
Jan 2, 2023
I'm surprised there's nothing from Ethiopia on the list, considering they've got a sizable Jewish population.