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The burnt beams and the mikveh.
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The truth about faith and fertility in America.
Orthodox Jews tend to have more children than the non-Orthodox (and than Americans as a whole), and Haredim tend to have more children than the Modern Orthodox. But overall, do religious Americans have more children than the irreligious? Ryan Burge shows that the answer is probably yes, but the difference is in fact quite small:
The burnt beams and the mikveh.
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The truth about faith and fertility in America.
Orthodox Jews tend to have more children than the non-Orthodox (and than Americans as a whole), and Haredim tend to have more children than the Modern Orthodox. But overall, do religious Americans have more children than the irreligious? Ryan Burge shows that the answer is probably yes, but the difference is in fact quite small:
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