Do you live in Jew Jersey?

[Ixtab]

A media watchdog awarded the Denver Daily News the "correction of the year" for its apology for a typo that gave New Jersey the "Jew Jersey" moniker.

"Our choice this year is a correction that combines many elements that are indicative of the correction format: it is very short, the error is very bad and also very funny, and the correction is entirely inadequate," the Regret the Error Web site said in announcing the award on Tuesday. "The News offends an entire state and a major religion and all it can muster is 39 words?"

The July 27 correction by the News read as follows: "The Denver Daily News would like to offer a sincere apology for a typo in Wednesday?s Town Talk regarding New Jersey?s proposal to ban smoking in automobiles. It was not the author?s intention to call New Jersey 'Jew Jersey.'"

http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=449

[Felix the Cat]

Are there many Jews in Jew Jersey?

[Ixtab]

Are there many Jews in Jew Jersey?There are about 485,000 Jews in New Jersey.

[Felix the Cat]

There are about 485,000 Jews in New Jersey.
Ouch. Tough neighborhood...

[daisy]

yeah sure that's the ticket. they did that on purpose and now they just called it a mistake in case anyone got mad about it.

[raven]

Lets see 485,000 jews out of a population of 8,414,350 is 5.76%. On wikipedia they report 5%. New Jersey has the 2nd largest percentile rate for jews in the United States. Quite a lot compared to the national 2% average. I just looked at New York State in Wiki and they only have 5%?! Their population is 19,190,115 so that would mean the entire NY state has less than a million jews? I thought New York City alone had more than a million jews?

I just checked Wiki on NYC and they have, "New York City is also home to the nation's largest community of American Jews, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, with an estimate of 972,000 in 2002." So obviously those figures for NY state are wrong. That's why you gotta take wiki with a grain of salt.. anyone can edit it. And I remember reading on a site before that NYC's jewish diaspora was some figure over one million. So maybe even 972,000 is too low-balled.

[Felix the Cat]

972,000 would mean there are more Jews in NY than in France, Britain and Italy combined

[raven]

972,000 would mean there are more Jews in NY than in France, Britain and Italy combined
:rofl: Yeah. In Canada there are about 350k jews with almost half of them living in Toronto. (they make up almost 7% of the city. Possibly because we have quite a few synagogues there and they tend to be clustered into their own communities.) So yep, NYC is very jewish. I could have sworn that I have seen the number to be much higher than 972k in some jewish diaspora website though.