Anonymous wrote:anyone have a sense of how many Jewish kids are at Key Bilingual?

My kids went there (aged out 4 years ago), and in our experience they had few Jewish classmates. Probably 3-4 per grade, though its possible there were other Jews we didn't know.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not Jewish but live in a neighborhood that feeds into Woodson. I have so many Jewish neighbors that I am pretty much in the minority.

Mantua?

No, but across the street...Olde Creek ES area.

Anonymous wrote:If you look at the maps in the report, the jewish population of Northern VA clusters near the orange line, and mostly inside the beltway. It is N. Arlington and Fall Church City.

In Vienna, there are some jews, but not a lot. In fact, as my DD was growing it, it was difficult because at our shul, most of the kids were from N Arlington and Falls Church. So, DD never made friends from temple. (We did have just enough for a car pool).

Rodef is in the Falls Church part of Fairfax County and many families live nearby and in McLean.

If you look at the maps in the report, the jewish population of Northern VA clusters near the orange line, and mostly inside the beltway. It is N. Arlington and Fall Church City.

In Vienna, there are some jews, but not a lot. In fact, as my DD was growing it, it was difficult because at our shul, most of the kids were from N Arlington and Falls Church. So, DD never made friends from temple. (We did have just enough for a car pool).

I live inRockville and while I do t know the exact percentage, I have tons of Jewish neighbors. I would be surprised if it was less than 10% It’s probably closer to 20-30%.

There are lots of places where your kids won’t be one of just a few Jewish kids.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just looked up, there are about 3 million people in NoVa, making Jews about 4%. But there are clearly some areas with almost no Jews, eg the Route 1 corridor, parts of Prince William, much of South Arlington, upper Great Falls, etc. So, either the demographic estimates are off, or you'd think there would be a few schools with >10%.

Why do you think there are no Jews in S. Arlington?

There are (at least) two in my kid's class in South Arlington, both are from interfaith families

My kids have a total of 18 years in So. Arlington schools, and my over those 18 years have had in their class/TA a grand total of 1 Jewish kid, one kid with a Jewish mom who was only vaguely aware her mom was Jewish and isn't being raised such, and one kid with distant Jewish ancestry who is Catholic. With some overlap that's maybe 300 classmates, 1 Jewish classmate. The teachers, btw, have been lovely about it, inserting chanukah material into "winter holiday" material that's really all about Christmas, inviting us in to talk about Hanukkah, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Very scattered. My DS is always the only Jewish kid in class. We are in FCPS.

+1

MCPS has many more Jewish people.

From the study and other data, it sounds like MoCo has a lot more elderly Jews, while MCPS has many more blacks and Hispanics.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just looked up, there are about 3 million people in NoVa, making Jews about 4%. But there are clearly some areas with almost no Jews, eg the Route 1 corridor, parts of Prince William, much of South Arlington, upper Great Falls, etc. So, either the demographic estimates are off, or you'd think there would be a few schools with >10%.

Why do you think there are no Jews in S. Arlington?

There are (at least) two in my kid's class in South Arlington, both are from interfaith families

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just looked up, there are about 3 million people in NoVa, making Jews about 4%. But there are clearly some areas with almost no Jews, eg the Route 1 corridor, parts of Prince William, much of South Arlington, upper Great Falls, etc. So, either the demographic estimates are off, or you'd think there would be a few schools with >10%.

Why do you think there are no Jews in S. Arlington?

“almost” no Jews in “much” of South Arlington. Based on experience, and looking at my synagogue directory.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just looked up, there are about 3 million people in NoVa, making Jews about 4%. But there are clearly some areas with almost no Jews, eg the Route 1 corridor, parts of Prince William, much of South Arlington, upper Great Falls, etc. So, either the demographic estimates are off, or you'd think there would be a few schools with >10%.

Why do you think there are no Jews in S. Arlington?

Anonymous wrote:Very scattered. My DS is always the only Jewish kid in class. We are in FCPS.

+1

MCPS has many more Jewish people.

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County still is way more Jewish. Nova has more families that are interfaith, although Rodef at least years ago discouraged families from raising kids is more than one faith.

Also, Chutpah is not a great Jewish Deli. Mediocre at best. I thought Celebrity Deli I Falls Church was pretty good, but not sure if it still exists.

So then you're saying that the stats in the study that OP posted are wrong?

DP here, but did you read the whole study? The Suburban Maryland counties included were limited to Montgomery and Prince George's County. The NoVA counties in the study includes Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince Williams, so it's not surprising the the total population of Jews from all of NoVA is higher. I am curious that if Howard County was included, what the stats would show. Moreover, if you compare county to county, Montgomery would still have a higher Jewish population than the individual NoVA counties.

Montgomery County covers as much ground as Fairfax County, Arlington, and the City of Alexandria combined. You would be loading the dice to compare MoCo to just one NoVa jurisdiction.

No, that's incorrect.
Fairfax County itself is bigger than MoCo and has a bigger population.
A simple Google search could have told you so.
I know this is DCUM, but do you people just make things up to make you feel better?
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Yup, this. Plus a bunch of Jews in Arlington, in Alexandria, in Loudoun, in PWC. Jews in NoVa are A Much more scattered than in MoCo and B. Less likely to be Orthodox. So much less visible Jewish life, despite the total numbers.

Except Fairfax is smaller than Montgomery.

And the suggestion that only Orthodox Jews count is offensive to many Jews, both in this country and elsewhere.

I don’t think PP is only counting Orthodox Jews, just saying those are the only ones you might notice in public.

anyone have a sense of how many Jewish kids are at Key Bilingual?

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County still is way more Jewish. Nova has more families that are interfaith, although Rodef at least years ago discouraged families from raising kids is more than one faith.

Also, Chutpah is not a great Jewish Deli. Mediocre at best. I thought Celebrity Deli I Falls Church was pretty good, but not sure if it still exists.

So then you're saying that the stats in the study that OP posted are wrong?

DP here, but did you read the whole study? The Suburban Maryland counties included were limited to Montgomery and Prince George's County. The NoVA counties in the study includes Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince Williams, so it's not surprising the the total population of Jews from all of NoVA is higher. I am curious that if Howard County was included, what the stats would show. Moreover, if you compare county to county, Montgomery would still have a higher Jewish population than the individual NoVA counties.

Montgomery County covers as much ground as Fairfax County, Arlington, and the City of Alexandria combined. You would be loading the dice to compare MoCo to just one NoVa jurisdiction.

No, that's incorrect.
Fairfax County itself is bigger than MoCo and has a bigger population.
A simple Google search could have told you so.
I know this is DCUM, but do you people just make things up to make you feel better?
.

Yup, this. Plus a bunch of Jews in Arlington, in Alexandria, in Loudoun, in PWC. Jews in NoVa are A Much more scattered than in MoCo and B. Less likely to be Orthodox. So much less visible Jewish life, despite the total numbers.

Except Fairfax is smaller than Montgomery.

And the suggestion that only Orthodox Jews count is offensive to many Jews, both in this country and elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County still is way more Jewish. Nova has more families that are interfaith, although Rodef at least years ago discouraged families from raising kids is more than one faith.

Also, Chutpah is not a great Jewish Deli. Mediocre at best. I thought Celebrity Deli I Falls Church was pretty good, but not sure if it still exists.

So then you're saying that the stats in the study that OP posted are wrong?

DP here, but did you read the whole study? The Suburban Maryland counties included were limited to Montgomery and Prince George's County. The NoVA counties in the study includes Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince Williams, so it's not surprising the the total population of Jews from all of NoVA is higher. I am curious that if Howard County was included, what the stats would show. Moreover, if you compare county to county, Montgomery would still have a higher Jewish population than the individual NoVA counties.

Montgomery County covers as much ground as Fairfax County, Arlington, and the City of Alexandria combined. You would be loading the dice to compare MoCo to just one NoVa jurisdiction.

No, that's incorrect.
Fairfax County itself is bigger than MoCo and has a bigger population.
A simple Google search could have told you so.
I know this is DCUM, but do you people just make things up to make you feel better?
.

Yup, this. Plus a bunch of Jews in Arlington, in Alexandria, in Loudoun, in PWC. Jews in NoVa are A Much more scattered than in MoCo and B. Less likely to be Orthodox. So much less visible Jewish life, despite the total numbers.