Originally Posted by
AA100k
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My Jewish GF tells me that there are over a million Jewish Americans living in California, a similar number to New York. It’s not a “vast” majority living on the East Coast any longer.
That said, I think it is mostly the Orthodox and Chasidic Jews that travel frequently to Israel, at least once a year for many. Reform and conservative Jews probably go no more than a couple of times in their lifetimes. I would suspect that the Orthodox/Chasidic Jews are more concentrated in the Northeast.