Editing Bergen County, New Jersey (section)

====Jewish American====
{{further|Jews in New York City}}
Bergen County is home to the largest [[Jewish]] population in New Jersey.<ref name=NYCJewstoBergen1>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/NewJersey.html Virtual Jewish World: New Jersey, United States], [[Jewish Virtual Library]]. Accessed May 27, 2016. "The largest concentration of Jews is in Bergen County (83,700)..."</ref> Many municipalities in the county are home to a significant number of [[American Jews|Jewish Americans]], including [[Fair Lawn, New Jersey|Fair Lawn]], [[Teaneck, New Jersey|Teaneck]], [[Tenafly, New Jersey|Tenafly]], [[Closter, New Jersey|Closter]], [[Englewood, New Jersey|Englewood]], [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey|Englewood Cliffs]], [[Fort Lee, New Jersey|Fort Lee]], [[Bergenfield, New Jersey|Bergenfield]], [[Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey|Woodcliff Lake]], [[Paramus, New Jersey|Paramus]], and [[Franklin Lakes, New Jersey|Franklin Lakes]].<ref name="ARDA" /> Teaneck, Fair Lawn, Englewood, and Bergenfield in particular have become havens for Bergen County's growing [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] communities, with a rising number of [[synagogue]]s as well as supermarkets and restaurants offering [[kosher foods]].<ref name=JewishSurvey>Sheingold, Dave. [https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-37965666/survey-seeks-better-count-of-north-jersey-jews "Survey seeks better count of North Jersey Jews"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307150945/https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-37965666/survey-seeks-better-count-of-north-jersey-jews |date=March 7, 2018 }}, ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', June 15, 2014</ref> The largest [[Israeli American]] communities in Bergen County were in Fair Lawn (2.5%), Closter (1.4%), and Tenafly (1.3%) in 2000, representing three of the four largest in the state.<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Israeli.html Israeli Ancestry by City.], [[EPodunk]]. Accessed July 22, 2014.</ref> Altogether, 83,700 Bergen residents identified themselves as being of [[Jewish]] heritage in 2000, a number expected to show an increase per a 2014 survey of Jews in the county.<ref name = ARDA/><ref name=JewishSurvey/> The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey is based in Paramus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jfnnj.org/contact-us/|title=Contact Us - Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey|publisher=Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey|access-date=September 1, 2023}}</ref>