What is the Hasidic population in [city/state/country/world]?
A-3-a: I have no idea. The reason being that few, if any, censuses identify people as “Hasidic” specifically. Many don’t even identify Jews as a separate group, let alone sub-groups such as Hasidim or sub-sub-groups like specific Hasidic sects. It has long been a complaint with me that government forms in the USA lump Jews in with “whites,” thereby obscuring our status as a bonafide minority group. Many Jews do, in fact, have Caucasian-colored skin, but many others do not, and, given the hatred directed at us by White Supremicist groups, it is the greatest of ironies to call us “white” on census forms intended to identify ethnic diversities within a given population. I regularly enter “Hasidic Jew” under the “other” category, but I doubt that ever counts for anything. Some bureaucrat probably just changes it to “white” at data entry. Another place where you might expect to find population records is from the Jewish community itself. Unfortunately, that isn’t reliable either. The Federa
