It seems we Jews are not alone. The unaffiliated are everywhere!!! From the NY Times:
More than 16 percent of American adults say they are not part of any organized faith, which makes the unaffiliated the country’s fourth largest “religious group.�
The third-largest Jewish community in the world has undergone alternating periods of achievement and persecution.
The territories of the former Russian Empire were the cradle of Jewish modernity, the birthplace of Zionism and Jewish socialism, and a major center of the Hasidic movement.
For hundreds of years, Jews were restricted to one small quarter of the city, giving rise to the term ‘ghetto.’