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[td]Most [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] in California are of [[Mexican Americans|Mexican]], [[Central America]]n, [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[German Americans|German]], [[Italian Americans|Italian]], [[Vietnamese Americans|Vietnamese]], [[Filipino Americans|Filipino]], and [[Korean Americans|Korean]] ancestry. The population of Catholic Californians is rapidly growing due to the influx of Latin American, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Christian immigrants. In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Sunday Mass is celebrated in 42 different languages representing more than 30 ethnic groups from around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schrank|first=Aaron|title=Photos: The Diversity Among Catholics In LA Was On Full Display This Weekend|url=https://laist.com/2019/06/24/we_all...ccess-date=2020-09-26|website=LAist|date=June 24, 2019 }}</ref> The Catholic dioceses of Orange, Los Angeles and San Jose have the largest Catholic diaspora of Vietnamese Catholics in world outside of Vietnam, estimated to be about 250,000-300,000 Catholics out of a total Vietnamese California population of 1.3 Million.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-08-25|title=40 percent of nation's Vietnamese immigrants call California home|url=https://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiame...unty/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Southern California Public Radio}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]The largest Christian denominations in California in 2000 were the Catholic Church with 10,079,310; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with 529,575; and the Southern Baptist Convention with 471,119. Jewish congregations had 994,000 adherents, or 3% of the Californian population.<ref name="Religious Adherent Count">{{Cite web |title = State Membership Report 2000 |publisher = The Association of Religious Data Archives |year = 2002 |url = http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |access-date = January 29, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/2008112...psReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |archive-date = November 21, 2008 |url-status = dead }}</ref>[/td]
[td]The largest Christian denominations in California in 2000 were the Catholic Church with 10,079,310; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with 529,575; and the Southern Baptist Convention with 471,119.[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td][[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], [[ShintΕ]], [[Sikhism]], and [[Taoism]] were introduced in part by Asian immigrants. As the 20th century came to a close, forty percent of all Buddhists in America resided in Southern California. The [[Los Angeles metropolitan area]] has become unique in the Buddhist world as the only place where representative organizations of every major school of Buddhism can be found in a single urban center.<ref name="Encyclopedia of American Religions">{{cite book |editor1-last=Melton |editor1-first=J. Gordon |date=December 2002|title=Encyclopedia of American Religions |edition=Seventh |chapter=Eastern Family Part II: Buddhism, Shintoism, Japanese New Religions |pages=201β211 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale Cengage |isbn = 978-0-7876-6384-1 |oclc=51255717}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=January 2010}} The [[City of Ten Thousand Buddhas]] in [[Northern California]] and [[Hsi Lai Temple]] in [[Southern California]] are two of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere.[/td]
[td][[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], [[ShintΕ]], [[Sikhism]], and [[Taoism]] were introduced in part by Asian immigrants. As the 20th century came to a close, forty percent of all Buddhists in America resided in Southern California. The [[Los Angeles metropolitan area]] has become unique in the Buddhist world as the only place where representative organizations of every major school of Buddhism can be found in a single urban center.<ref name="Encyclopedia of American Religions">{{cite book |editor1-last=Melton |editor1-first=J. Gordon |date=December 2002|title=Encyclopedia of American Religions |edition=Seventh |chapter=Eastern Family Part II: Buddhism, Shintoism, Japanese New Religions |pages=201β211 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale Cengage |isbn = 978-0-7876-6384-1 |oclc=51255717}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=January 2010}} The [[City of Ten Thousand Buddhas]] in [[Northern California]] and [[Hsi Lai Temple]] in [[Southern California]] are two of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere.[/td] [td]California has the highest [[Hindus|Hindu]] population in the United States,<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Davis|title=Lone Star America: How Texas Can Save Our Country|url=https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi|url-access=registration|date=9 June 2014|publisher=Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-62157-231-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi/page/78 78]}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SCR32 |title=SCR-32 Hindu American Awareness and Appreciation Month |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=29 August 2014 |website=California Legislative Information |publisher=State of California |access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> most of them [[Indian Americans]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob Neusner|title=World Religions in America: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34vGv_HDGG8C&pg=PA180|year=2009|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=978-1-61164-047-2|pages=180β181}}</ref> Many of the prominent Hindu temples including the [[Malibu Hindu Temple]] are located in California.[/td]
[td]California has the highest [[Hindus|Hindu]] population in the United States,<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Davis|title=Lone Star America: How Texas Can Save Our Country|url=https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi|url-access=registration|date=9 June 2014|publisher=Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-62157-231-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi/page/78 78]}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SCR32 |title=SCR-32 Hindu American Awareness and Appreciation Month |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=29 August 2014 |website=California Legislative Information |publisher=State of California |access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> most of them [[Indian Americans]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob Neusner|title=World Religions in America: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34vGv_HDGG8C&pg=PA180|year=2009|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=978-1-61164-047-2|pages=180β181}}</ref> Many of the prominent Hindu temples including the [[Malibu Hindu Temple]] are located in California.[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]With more than 1,232,000 Jews as of 2015, California has the highest number of Jews of any state except [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="auto"/> Many Jews live in the [[West Los Angeles]] and (esp. west) [[San Fernando Valley]] regions of Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/analysis/235555/deep-dive-jewish-la/|title=A Deep Dive into Jewish L.A.|date=June 27, 2018|website=Jewish Journal}}</ref> Historic synagogues include [[Beth Jacob Congregation (Beverly Hills, California)]], [[Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California)]], and [[Temple Israel (Stockton, California)]]. [[Chabad]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=BECERRA|first1=HECTOR|title=Repair work set to begin at neglected Jewish cemetery|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cemetery-repair-20130604-story.html|agency=Los Angeles Times|date=July 4, 2014|quote=Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles -- which has led the effort to restore Mount Zion -- said he hopes $700,000 can be raised to properly repair the cemetery, though there would be other ongoing costs after that. Greenwald said several people came forward to help, including businesspeople and real estate developers who gave donations. He said he even got a call from the L.A. Archdiocese, and that he hopes to speak to local church leaders to get the word out about the problem of vandalism.}}</ref> The [[Rohr Jewish Learning Institute]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Posner|first1=Menachem|title=300 Rabbinical Students Heading Out for Summer Sojourns|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_...Out-for-Summer-Sojourns.htm|agency=Chabad.org is a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center|publisher=Lubavitch World Headquarters|quote=Zarchi was followed by Rabbi Efraim Mintz, who served as a Roving Rabbi in California in 1990. Mintz, who directs the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, shared tips and advice on honing a Torah βelevator pitch,β as well as ideas about presenting more advanced Torah thoughts on a variety of subjects to share with others during the course of their travels.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=That's Growth!|url=http://www.shturem.org/index.php?section=news&id=3837|agency=Shturem.net|publisher=JTA|date=March 3, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Leading the class was Chabad Rabbi Yisrael Rice...Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=Chabad institute keeps on growing|url=https://www.jta.org/2006/03/02/life...abad-institute-keeps-on-growing|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=March 2, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there. βI'm trying to put some things together,β one man says. βI'm trying to fix a broken link,β the women next to him says. βWhere am I going? God willing, I'm going closer,β the next woman says. Billed as a mystical approach to the concepts of time and the Jewish calendar, The Kabbalah of Time is the 14th course in adult Jewish literacy offered by JLI, a seven-year-old project of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.}}</ref> and [[Aish HaTorah]] are active in California.[/td]
[td]With more than 1,232,000 Jews as of 2015, California has the highest number of Jews of any state except [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="auto"/> Many Jews live in the [[West Los Angeles]] and (esp. west) [[San Fernando Valley]] regions of Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/analysis/235555/deep-dive-jewish-la/|title=A Deep Dive into Jewish L.A.|date=June 27, 2018|website=Jewish Journal}}</ref> Historic synagogues include [[Beth Jacob Congregation (Beverly Hills, California)]], [[Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California)]], and [[Temple Israel (Stockton, California)]]. [[Chabad]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=BECERRA|first1=HECTOR|title=Repair work set to begin at neglected Jewish cemetery|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cemetery-repair-20130604-story.html|agency=Los Angeles Times|date=July 4, 2014|quote=Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles -- which has led the effort to restore Mount Zion -- said he hopes $700,000 can be raised to properly repair the cemetery, though there would be other ongoing costs after that. Greenwald said several people came forward to help, including businesspeople and real estate developers who gave donations. He said he even got a call from the L.A. Archdiocese, and that he hopes to speak to local church leaders to get the word out about the problem of vandalism.}}</ref> The [[Rohr Jewish Learning Institute]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Posner|first1=Menachem|title=300 Rabbinical Students Heading Out for Summer Sojourns|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_...Out-for-Summer-Sojourns.htm|agency=Chabad.org is a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center|publisher=Lubavitch World Headquarters|quote=Zarchi was followed by Rabbi Efraim Mintz, who served as a Roving Rabbi in California in 1990. Mintz, who directs the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, shared tips and advice on honing a Torah βelevator pitch,β as well as ideas about presenting more advanced Torah thoughts on a variety of subjects to share with others during the course of their travels.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=That's Growth!|url=http://www.shturem.org/index.php?section=news&id=3837|agency=Shturem.net|publisher=JTA|date=March 3, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Leading the class was Chabad Rabbi Yisrael Rice...Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=Chabad institute keeps on growing|url=https://www.jta.org/2006/03/02/life...abad-institute-keeps-on-growing|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=March 2, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there. βI'm trying to put some things together,β one man says. βI'm trying to fix a broken link,β the women next to him says. βWhere am I going? God willing, I'm going closer,β the next woman says. Billed as a mystical approach to the concepts of time and the Jewish calendar, The Kabbalah of Time is the 14th course in adult Jewish literacy offered by JLI, a seven-year-old project of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.}}</ref> and [[Aish HaTorah]] are active in California. Jewish congregations had 994,000 adherents, or 3% of the Californian population.<ref name="Religious Adherent Count">{{Cite web |title = State Membership Report 2000 |publisher = The Association of Religious Data Archives |year = 2002 |url = http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |access-date = January 29, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/2008112...psReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |archive-date = November 21, 2008 |url-status = dead }}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]California also has the largest Muslim community in the United States, an estimated one percent of the population, mostly residing in Southern California. Approximately 100,000 Muslims reside in San Diego.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://www.mccsandiego.org/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Muslim Community Center of Greater San Diego|language=en-US}}</ref>[/td]
[td]California also has the largest Muslim community in the United States, an estimated one percent of the population, mostly residing in Southern California. Approximately 100,000 Muslims reside in San Diego.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://www.mccsandiego.org/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Muslim Community Center of Greater San Diego|language=en-US}}</ref>[/td]
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[td]Most [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] in California are of [[Mexican Americans|Mexican]], [[Central America]]n, [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[German Americans|German]], [[Italian Americans|Italian]], [[Vietnamese Americans|Vietnamese]], [[Filipino Americans|Filipino]], and [[Korean Americans|Korean]] ancestry. The population of Catholic Californians is rapidly growing due to the influx of Latin American, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Christian immigrants. In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Sunday Mass is celebrated in 42 different languages representing more than 30 ethnic groups from around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schrank|first=Aaron|title=Photos: The Diversity Among Catholics In LA Was On Full Display This Weekend|url=https://laist.com/2019/06/24/we_all...ccess-date=2020-09-26|website=LAist|date=June 24, 2019 }}</ref> The Catholic dioceses of Orange, Los Angeles and San Jose have the largest Catholic diaspora of Vietnamese Catholics in world outside of Vietnam, estimated to be about 250,000-300,000 Catholics out of a total Vietnamese California population of 1.3 Million.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-08-25|title=40 percent of nation's Vietnamese immigrants call California home|url=https://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiame...unty/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Southern California Public Radio}}</ref>[/td]Revision as of 06:19, 5 September 2025
[/td][td]Most [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] in California are of [[Mexican Americans|Mexican]], [[Central America]]n, [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[German Americans|German]], [[Italian Americans|Italian]], [[Vietnamese Americans|Vietnamese]], [[Filipino Americans|Filipino]], and [[Korean Americans|Korean]] ancestry. The population of Catholic Californians is rapidly growing due to the influx of Latin American, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Christian immigrants. In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Sunday Mass is celebrated in 42 different languages representing more than 30 ethnic groups from around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schrank|first=Aaron|title=Photos: The Diversity Among Catholics In LA Was On Full Display This Weekend|url=https://laist.com/2019/06/24/we_all...ccess-date=2020-09-26|website=LAist|date=June 24, 2019 }}</ref> The Catholic dioceses of Orange, Los Angeles and San Jose have the largest Catholic diaspora of Vietnamese Catholics in world outside of Vietnam, estimated to be about 250,000-300,000 Catholics out of a total Vietnamese California population of 1.3 Million.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-08-25|title=40 percent of nation's Vietnamese immigrants call California home|url=https://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiame...unty/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Southern California Public Radio}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]The largest Christian denominations in California in 2000 were the Catholic Church with 10,079,310; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with 529,575; and the Southern Baptist Convention with 471,119. Jewish congregations had 994,000 adherents, or 3% of the Californian population.<ref name="Religious Adherent Count">{{Cite web |title = State Membership Report 2000 |publisher = The Association of Religious Data Archives |year = 2002 |url = http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |access-date = January 29, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/2008112...psReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |archive-date = November 21, 2008 |url-status = dead }}</ref>[/td]
[td]The largest Christian denominations in California in 2000 were the Catholic Church with 10,079,310; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with 529,575; and the Southern Baptist Convention with 471,119.[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td][[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], [[ShintΕ]], [[Sikhism]], and [[Taoism]] were introduced in part by Asian immigrants. As the 20th century came to a close, forty percent of all Buddhists in America resided in Southern California. The [[Los Angeles metropolitan area]] has become unique in the Buddhist world as the only place where representative organizations of every major school of Buddhism can be found in a single urban center.<ref name="Encyclopedia of American Religions">{{cite book |editor1-last=Melton |editor1-first=J. Gordon |date=December 2002|title=Encyclopedia of American Religions |edition=Seventh |chapter=Eastern Family Part II: Buddhism, Shintoism, Japanese New Religions |pages=201β211 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale Cengage |isbn = 978-0-7876-6384-1 |oclc=51255717}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=January 2010}} The [[City of Ten Thousand Buddhas]] in [[Northern California]] and [[Hsi Lai Temple]] in [[Southern California]] are two of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere.[/td]
[td][[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], [[ShintΕ]], [[Sikhism]], and [[Taoism]] were introduced in part by Asian immigrants. As the 20th century came to a close, forty percent of all Buddhists in America resided in Southern California. The [[Los Angeles metropolitan area]] has become unique in the Buddhist world as the only place where representative organizations of every major school of Buddhism can be found in a single urban center.<ref name="Encyclopedia of American Religions">{{cite book |editor1-last=Melton |editor1-first=J. Gordon |date=December 2002|title=Encyclopedia of American Religions |edition=Seventh |chapter=Eastern Family Part II: Buddhism, Shintoism, Japanese New Religions |pages=201β211 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale Cengage |isbn = 978-0-7876-6384-1 |oclc=51255717}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=January 2010}} The [[City of Ten Thousand Buddhas]] in [[Northern California]] and [[Hsi Lai Temple]] in [[Southern California]] are two of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere.[/td] [td]California has the highest [[Hindus|Hindu]] population in the United States,<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Davis|title=Lone Star America: How Texas Can Save Our Country|url=https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi|url-access=registration|date=9 June 2014|publisher=Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-62157-231-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi/page/78 78]}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SCR32 |title=SCR-32 Hindu American Awareness and Appreciation Month |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=29 August 2014 |website=California Legislative Information |publisher=State of California |access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> most of them [[Indian Americans]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob Neusner|title=World Religions in America: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34vGv_HDGG8C&pg=PA180|year=2009|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=978-1-61164-047-2|pages=180β181}}</ref> Many of the prominent Hindu temples including the [[Malibu Hindu Temple]] are located in California.[/td]
[td]California has the highest [[Hindus|Hindu]] population in the United States,<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Davis|title=Lone Star America: How Texas Can Save Our Country|url=https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi|url-access=registration|date=9 June 2014|publisher=Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-62157-231-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/lonestaramericah0000davi/page/78 78]}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SCR32 |title=SCR-32 Hindu American Awareness and Appreciation Month |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=29 August 2014 |website=California Legislative Information |publisher=State of California |access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> most of them [[Indian Americans]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob Neusner|title=World Religions in America: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34vGv_HDGG8C&pg=PA180|year=2009|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=978-1-61164-047-2|pages=180β181}}</ref> Many of the prominent Hindu temples including the [[Malibu Hindu Temple]] are located in California.[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]With more than 1,232,000 Jews as of 2015, California has the highest number of Jews of any state except [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="auto"/> Many Jews live in the [[West Los Angeles]] and (esp. west) [[San Fernando Valley]] regions of Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/analysis/235555/deep-dive-jewish-la/|title=A Deep Dive into Jewish L.A.|date=June 27, 2018|website=Jewish Journal}}</ref> Historic synagogues include [[Beth Jacob Congregation (Beverly Hills, California)]], [[Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California)]], and [[Temple Israel (Stockton, California)]]. [[Chabad]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=BECERRA|first1=HECTOR|title=Repair work set to begin at neglected Jewish cemetery|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cemetery-repair-20130604-story.html|agency=Los Angeles Times|date=July 4, 2014|quote=Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles -- which has led the effort to restore Mount Zion -- said he hopes $700,000 can be raised to properly repair the cemetery, though there would be other ongoing costs after that. Greenwald said several people came forward to help, including businesspeople and real estate developers who gave donations. He said he even got a call from the L.A. Archdiocese, and that he hopes to speak to local church leaders to get the word out about the problem of vandalism.}}</ref> The [[Rohr Jewish Learning Institute]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Posner|first1=Menachem|title=300 Rabbinical Students Heading Out for Summer Sojourns|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_...Out-for-Summer-Sojourns.htm|agency=Chabad.org is a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center|publisher=Lubavitch World Headquarters|quote=Zarchi was followed by Rabbi Efraim Mintz, who served as a Roving Rabbi in California in 1990. Mintz, who directs the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, shared tips and advice on honing a Torah βelevator pitch,β as well as ideas about presenting more advanced Torah thoughts on a variety of subjects to share with others during the course of their travels.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=That's Growth!|url=http://www.shturem.org/index.php?section=news&id=3837|agency=Shturem.net|publisher=JTA|date=March 3, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Leading the class was Chabad Rabbi Yisrael Rice...Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=Chabad institute keeps on growing|url=https://www.jta.org/2006/03/02/life...abad-institute-keeps-on-growing|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=March 2, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there. βI'm trying to put some things together,β one man says. βI'm trying to fix a broken link,β the women next to him says. βWhere am I going? God willing, I'm going closer,β the next woman says. Billed as a mystical approach to the concepts of time and the Jewish calendar, The Kabbalah of Time is the 14th course in adult Jewish literacy offered by JLI, a seven-year-old project of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.}}</ref> and [[Aish HaTorah]] are active in California.[/td]
[td]With more than 1,232,000 Jews as of 2015, California has the highest number of Jews of any state except [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="auto"/> Many Jews live in the [[West Los Angeles]] and (esp. west) [[San Fernando Valley]] regions of Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/analysis/235555/deep-dive-jewish-la/|title=A Deep Dive into Jewish L.A.|date=June 27, 2018|website=Jewish Journal}}</ref> Historic synagogues include [[Beth Jacob Congregation (Beverly Hills, California)]], [[Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California)]], and [[Temple Israel (Stockton, California)]]. [[Chabad]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=BECERRA|first1=HECTOR|title=Repair work set to begin at neglected Jewish cemetery|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cemetery-repair-20130604-story.html|agency=Los Angeles Times|date=July 4, 2014|quote=Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles -- which has led the effort to restore Mount Zion -- said he hopes $700,000 can be raised to properly repair the cemetery, though there would be other ongoing costs after that. Greenwald said several people came forward to help, including businesspeople and real estate developers who gave donations. He said he even got a call from the L.A. Archdiocese, and that he hopes to speak to local church leaders to get the word out about the problem of vandalism.}}</ref> The [[Rohr Jewish Learning Institute]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Posner|first1=Menachem|title=300 Rabbinical Students Heading Out for Summer Sojourns|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_...Out-for-Summer-Sojourns.htm|agency=Chabad.org is a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center|publisher=Lubavitch World Headquarters|quote=Zarchi was followed by Rabbi Efraim Mintz, who served as a Roving Rabbi in California in 1990. Mintz, who directs the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, shared tips and advice on honing a Torah βelevator pitch,β as well as ideas about presenting more advanced Torah thoughts on a variety of subjects to share with others during the course of their travels.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=That's Growth!|url=http://www.shturem.org/index.php?section=news&id=3837|agency=Shturem.net|publisher=JTA|date=March 3, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Leading the class was Chabad Rabbi Yisrael Rice...Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there.}}<br />{{cite news|last1=Fishkoff|first1=Sue|title=Chabad institute keeps on growing|url=https://www.jta.org/2006/03/02/life...abad-institute-keeps-on-growing|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=March 2, 2006|location=SAN RAFAEL, California|quote=Rice, chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's editorial board, asks members of the group why they're there. βI'm trying to put some things together,β one man says. βI'm trying to fix a broken link,β the women next to him says. βWhere am I going? God willing, I'm going closer,β the next woman says. Billed as a mystical approach to the concepts of time and the Jewish calendar, The Kabbalah of Time is the 14th course in adult Jewish literacy offered by JLI, a seven-year-old project of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.}}</ref> and [[Aish HaTorah]] are active in California. Jewish congregations had 994,000 adherents, or 3% of the Californian population.<ref name="Religious Adherent Count">{{Cite web |title = State Membership Report 2000 |publisher = The Association of Religious Data Archives |year = 2002 |url = http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |access-date = January 29, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/2008112...psReports/reports/state/06_2000_Adherents.asp |archive-date = November 21, 2008 |url-status = dead }}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]California also has the largest Muslim community in the United States, an estimated one percent of the population, mostly residing in Southern California. Approximately 100,000 Muslims reside in San Diego.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://www.mccsandiego.org/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Muslim Community Center of Greater San Diego|language=en-US}}</ref>[/td]
[td]California also has the largest Muslim community in the United States, an estimated one percent of the population, mostly residing in Southern California. Approximately 100,000 Muslims reside in San Diego.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://www.mccsandiego.org/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Muslim Community Center of Greater San Diego|language=en-US}}</ref>[/td]
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