The sheer weight of chareidi numbers is set to reshape Jewish life as we know it, in ways yet unfathomed.
“For it is not an organization to carry out a specific task, whose value comes to an end with the realization of any particular object,” he told the conference, which was headed by figures such as Rav Chaim Soloveitchik and the Gerrer Rebbe.
“Our gathering is rather to revive an ancient Jewish possession: the traditional conception of Klal Yisrael — Israel’s collective body, animated and sustained by its Torah as the organizing soul — which through our Agudas Yisrael we seek to realize in the midst of the civilized world.”
A century later, the spirit of leadership that those words represent is a good starting point for discussion of new figures about chareidi growth.
According to Dr. Daniel Staetsky of London’s Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), the global chareidi population is now 2.1 million, or 14% of the total Jewish People. Put differently, one in seven Jews worldwide are chareidim, a figure expected to leap by 2040 to between 20% and 25%.
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