Editing Chabad (section)

=== United States ===
[[File:Reagan receives menorah 1986.jpg|thumb|right|President [[Ronald Reagan]] receives menorah from the "American Friends of Lubavitch", White House, 1984]]

Estimates for Chabad and other Hasidic groups are often based on extrapolation from the limited information available in US census data for some of the areas where Hasidim live. A 2006 estimate was drawn from a study on the [[Montreal]] Chabad community (determining average household size), in conjunction with language and other select indicators from US census data, it is estimated that Chabad in the [[United States]] includes approximately 4,000 households, which contains between 22,000 and 25,000 people. In terms of Chabad's relation to other Hasidic groups, within the New York metropolitan area, Chabad in the New York area accounts for around 15% of the total New York Hasidic population. Chabad is estimated to have an annual growth of 3.6%:<ref name=comenetz/>

* [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]] – The Crown Heights Chabad community's estimated size is 12,000 to 16,000.<ref name="shaffir34">Shaffir, William. [http://www.jewishjournalofsociology.org/index.php/jjs/article/viewFile/36/34 "The renaissance of Hassidism."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106195854/http://jewishjournalofsociology.org/index.php/jjs/article/viewFile/36/34|date=2016-11-06}} ''[[Jewish Journal of Sociology]]'' 48, no. 2 (2006).</ref>  It was estimated that between 25% and 35% of Chabad Hasidim in Crown Heights speak [[Yiddish]]. This figure is significantly lower than other Hasidic groups and may be attributed to the addition of previously non-Hasidic Jews to the community. It was also estimated that over 20% of Chabad Hasidim in Crown Heights speak Hebrew or Russian.<ref name=comenetz>Comenetz, Joshua. "Census-based estimation of the Hasidic Jewish population." ''Contemporary Jewry'' 26, no. 1 (2006): 35.</ref> The Crown Heights Chabad community has its own [[Beis Din]] (rabbinical court) and [[Crown Heights Jewish Community Council]] (CHJCC).
* [[Chabad hipsters]] – Beginning from the late 2000s through the 2010s, a minor trend of cross acculturation of Chabad Hasidim and contemporary [[hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster subculture]] appeared within the New York City [[History of the Jews in New York|Jewish community]]. According to ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]'', a small number of members of the Chabad Hasidic community, mostly residing in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, appear to now have adopted various [[cultural assimilation|cultural affinities]] of the local hipster subculture. These members are referred to as Chabad hipsters or Hipster Hasidim.<ref name=birthofhasidic>Greenfield, Nicole. [http://www.religiondispatches.org/birth-of-hipster-hasidism/ ."Birth of Hipster Hasidism?"] ''Religion Dispatches''. University of Southern Carolina. February 2, 2012</ref><ref name=hipsterhasids>Nussbaum-Cohen, Debra. [http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/150315/ "Of Hasids, Hipsters, and Hipster Hasids."] ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]''. January 26, 2012.</ref>