"The first wave of Jewish immigration to the New World had begun in 1654, when a party of 23 Sephardic Jews from Brazil arrived in the community tht was known as New Amsterdam under Dutch rule and later as New York. "

"The case of New York reveals how, as new synagogues sprouted (there were seventeen by 1853-54), the community disintigrated more and more... "

Judaism

New York

-

10.60%

-

-

1983

*LINK* web page: "A REVIEW OF DATA ON JEWISH-AMERICANS " (1998) [Orig. source: Feldstein, Donald. The American Jewish Community in the 21st Century - A Projection. New York, NY: American Jewish Congress (March 1984)]

"TABLE 1: STATES WITH JEWISH POPULATIONS OF ONE PERCENT OR GREATER, 1983 "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States "; "The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. Data... based primarily on a compilation of individual estimates made by local Jewish federations. "

"...in April 1992 leaders fromone of the Klan's largest orders--The Christian Knights--traveled from their North Carolina headquarters to Long Island, New York, to swear in new members and lay the groundwork for a new group charter. The Klan had been active in parts of Long Island during the 1920s, but local law-enforcement officials reported that this was the first time in years that the white-supremacist organization returned to the area... the North Carolina Klansmen appeared confident about their Long Island recruitment. Klan leaders declined to disclose the number attending their area initiation ceremony, but stressed 'there are more (members) today than there were yesterday, and there will be more tomorrow than today.' In an observation chilling to those wary of hate-group activities, Klan Imperial Wizard Virgil Griffin noted: 'We didn't leave North Carolina without a reason--people called us.' "

"New York, NY [H.Q.]... The Latin-American Council of the Pentecostal Church of God of New York, Inc. (known also as the Concilio Latino-Americano de la Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal de New York, Incorporado) was formed in 1957 as an offshoot of the Latin American Council of the Pentecostal Church of God. (The latter is a Puerto Rican church without congregations in the U.S., and therefore not discussed in this encyclopedia.) Work in New York had begun in 1951 and the New York group became autonomous in 1956, though it remains loosely affiliated with the Puerto Rican parent body... Membership: Not reported. In 1967 there was an estimated 75 churches, most in the New York metropolitan area. "

"Meher Baba Centers have been established in a number of American cities, 4 in California, 3 in New York, 2 in Florida, 1 in Virginia. Perhaps the best known and most active of the centers is that at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina... "

Table A.2: "Denominational Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 "; "The adherence rates were estimated from Bureau of the Census (1854) reports on the number of churches, the seating capacity of churches & the value of church property. "

Berger, Helen A. A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press (1999), pg. 9-10.

Table: "Distribution of Neo-Pagans Participating in Neo-Pagan Census in U.S. "; Cols: State; Number [of Census participants]; % [of particpants]; Pg. xvi: "[Received] more than 2,000 responses... survey was distributed through Wiccan & Neo-Pagan organizations..., published in journals,.. Internet [&] at festivals. [unable] to guarantee that the survey was randomly distributed. "; Pg. 10: "...actual % by state are at best an approximation. "; Raw number presented here based on state % from this table, as a portion of estimated 200,000 [1992] U.S. total (pg. 9).; New York %: 7.3

"Membership: In 1984 the Association had 5 parishes (New York City; Brooklyn, NY; Chicago; Dorchester, MA; and Fullerton, CA) and a monastery in Jacksonville, Florida. "

Old Order Amish Church

New York

-

-

5units

-

1974

Nolt, Steven M. A History of the Amish, Good Books: Intercourse, PA (1992), pg. 280.

Table: "The Old Order Amish, Number of Church Districts, 1974 and 1991 "; NOTE: In older, established Amish communities, each church district 125-174 people (adults & children). Newer, smaller settlements often fewer than 100 people.

Table 2: "Location and characteristics of the Old Order Amish by state and province "; Columns: Location; Estimated population; Number of districts [i.e., congregation]; Number of settlements. "Estimates are based on mean district size within each settlement. "

Nolt, Steven M. A History of the Amish, Good Books: Intercourse, PA (1992), pg. 280.

Table: "The Old Order Amish, Number of Church Districts, 1974 and 1991 "; NOTE: In older, established Amish communities, each church district 125-174 people (adults & children). Newer, smaller settlements often fewer than 100 people.

Omega Institute

New York

8,000

-

-

-

1989

Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990), pg. 283.

"The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, attracted 8,000 people to 200 programs during its 1989 session, says an Omega spokesperson. "

"Perhaps the most thorough-going of all communistic religious societies was that founded by John Humphrey Noyes, which was eventually established at Oneida, in the state of New York... The Oneida Community were known as Perfectionists... "

"At one time or another, there were 7 branches, all under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes. In addition to the main group at Oneida [Oneida Creek, NY], there were smaller branches at Willow Place, New York; Cambridge, Vermont; Newark, New Jersey; Wallingford, Connecticut; New York City; and Putney, Vermont... " [NOTE: These were not necessarily all open at one time.]

"Oneida flourished, and was still flourishing, when in the 1870s the propgatation of its views led to considerable misrepresentation and brough public pressure to bear against it. Eventually, in 1879, the community was constrained to abandon its way of life in deference to public opinion, and its substantial property was converted into a joint stock company for the remaining 280 members. The industrial activities were, however, continued. "

Oneida Community

New York

-

-

1unit

1 country

1880

Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 551.

"Oneida Community (Christian). A perfectionist community founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86) and existent in Oneida, New York from 1847 to 1880, when it became a joint stock company--Oneida Community, Ltd.--known for its silverware. "

"In 1872, there were already 29 eastern European Orthodox synagogues in New York, most of them, of course, tiny. About half of the major congregations that resisted Reform were the old Sephardic and Ashkenazic congregations... "

Table A.2: "Denominational Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 "; "The adherence rates were estimated from Bureau of the Census (1854) reports on the number of churches, the seating capacity of churches & the value of church property. "

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