2014 Greater Miami Jewish Federation Population Study
Research Team

Amy Berger Chafetz
Chair, Jewish Population Study Committee

Michelle Labgold
Chief Planning Officer,
Greater Miami Jewish Federation

Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D.
Research Team Director
Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Miami and
Director of the Jewish Demography Project of UM’s Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies

Committee
Joe Ackerman
Rabbi Chaim Albert
Brian L. Bilzin
Michelle Burger
John M. Bussel
Rachel Camber
Charles Citrin
Rebecca Dinar
Rabbi Ed Farber
Joey Givner
Steven Gretenstein
Penny Harris
Todd Heller
Dan Jacobson
Ron Katz
Leah Klein
Laura P. Koffsky
Paul Kruss
Adam Lustig
Dr. Mark Oren
Sam Sheldon
Sami Shiro
Stanley Weinstein

About Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D.
Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D., is the Research Team Director for the 2014 Greater Miami Jewish Federation Population Study: A Portrait of the Miami Jewish Community. He is Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Miami and Director of the Jewish Demography Project of UM’s Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies.

Dr. Sheskin is an authority on demographics and the Jewish community, having conducted three previous population studies for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and 39 similar studies for Jewish communities throughout the United States. He was on the national committee that conducted the 1990 and the 2000 National Jewish Population Surveys. He has served on the board of the North American Jewish Data Bank (now the Berman Jewish Data Bank) of The Jewish Federations of North America.

Dr. Sheskin is the co-Editor of the American Jewish Year Book and authors the annual article in that volume on the number of Jews in more than 900 Jewish communities around the United States. His other books are Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts, which compares measures of demography and religiosity among 55 American Jewish communities, and Survey Research for Geographers. He is past Chair of both the Transportation Geography and Ethnic Geography Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers, and serves on the Board of the Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference.