In a message dated 2/13/02 6:37:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << New York/New Jersey >>
I can answer that... Pls forgive me if I'm not responding to anyone who may be waiting for a response. I'm back from Los Angeles and Chicago and am leaving for Montreal this afternoon. (I'm going to be VERY jetlagged. :) So I'm not reading my mail in bulk until at least Tuesday or Wednesday. Attendance at NY churches and synagogues is, IMO, pretty high throughout the state, (highest at major holidays, but that's typical) although they aren't *necessarily* centers of people's social lives to the same extent they are in other areas. We have more social options in larger cities. We often have more and larger religious private schools as well. (My fiance works at one that has a day school, a middle school and a high school -- and I know that's not available everywhere.) I would like to point out that the attendance volume changes from region to region, depending on the religion of the population. For instance, Temple Emmanu-el in Manhattan's upper east side has at least 1300 families and may be one of the largest Jewish temples in the entire US. By contrast, just 10 miles away (I think), I have a friend who attends a conservative synagogue in the Bronx that has less than 70 families as members. A woman in my office attends a Baptist church in Midtown that has around 1600 people as members. She says she feels comfortable there, as her home town church in NM had around 2000 attendees. BUT, her town's population numbered perhaps 30,000 people (she thinks,) and NYC has a couple of million. It's all in the proportions. :-) Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
