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Where can a Jewish family actually go?
Jewish Geography started with a question we kept asking each other after October 7: where is it genuinely safe and livable to be visibly Jewish — to travel, to move, to send a kid to school?
What this is
A guide to 168 cities: where Jewish life is, and how the antisemitic events reported there compare with what is normal for that city. Each city has two scores, never blended into one number: the Safety Score and the TribeScore (how scores work).
Where the figures come from
- Jewish population: published estimates, each shown with its source and year.
- Synagogues, kosher food, schools, mikvaot and Chabad houses: Google Maps, community directories and official registers. Each list names its sources and the date we checked it.
- Antisemitic events: news reports, grouped into one entry per event. An entry is marked Verified only once a person on our team has checked the reports; otherwise it says News report.
- Travel advisories: as published by the government that issues them, with the date we read them.
- City photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each city page.
Where we don't have a sourced figure, the page says “Insufficient verified data”. We never fill a gap with a guess.
What it is not
- Not safety advice, and not an emergency service. If you are in danger, call your local emergency number.
- Not a complete record: events come from what the press reports, so under-reported places can look quieter than they are.
A starting point, sourced and dated, that you finish with your own judgment and the people who actually live there.