Across three centuries, AJYB has provided insight into major trends. Part I of the current volume contains eight chapters: The two lead chapters explore Anti-Zionist Antisemitism surges on campuses and cities in the wake of October 7. Subsequent chapters analyze recent domestic and international events as they affect the American Jewish community, major events in the past year, and the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and the world Jewish populations. Part II contains nine chapters: lists of local Jewish organizations; Jewish museums, Holocaust museums and monuments; overnight camps; national Jewish organizations; Jewish press; Jewish academic programs; Jewish academic resources; Jewish honorees; and Jewish obituaries. This volume employs an accessible style, making it of interest to public officials, Jewish professionals and lay leaders, as well as the general public and academic researchers.

Dr. Arnold Dashefsky is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Professor of Sociology Emeritus and served as the founding Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut. Currently, he serves as editor (with Ira M. Sheskin) of the American Jewish Year Book and is Director Emeritus of the Berman Jewish DataBank. He has co-authored, co-edited, and edited 20 books as well as numerous articles and papers on Jewish identity, family, ethnicity, emigration, interfaith marriage, and philanthropy. Arnie was a founding member, secretary-treasurer, vice president, and president of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry and served as the editor of its journal, Contemporary Jewry.

Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D., is Professor of Geography and the Director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. He is the recipient of the 2023 Marshall Sklare Award, presented by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry to a senior scholar for lifetime achievement in the study of contemporary Jewry. He is also the recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ethnic Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Dr. Sheskin is the Editor of the American Jewish Year Book. He has completed more than 50 major Jewish community studies for Jewish Federations throughout the country and was a member of the committee that did both the 1990 and 2000 National Jewish Population Surveys.