families still prefer to commute to Bellingham, Washington, which is closer but across the US border. Intermarriage rate Cyril Edel Leonoff claims that the interfaith marriage rate for Vancouver Jews in 2001 was about 60%, with 40% of Jewish people formally involved with religious congregations. He also states that as of 2001 the largest congregations were Conservative, though the Reform congregation has also been growing. In the 2006 Canadian census 21,465 people in Greater Vancouver identified their ethnic origin as Jewish. These people represent about 1% of the census region's approximately two million respondents. Leonoff said in 2008 that the Jewish population of Greater Vancouver was 25,000, which was 80% of the Jewish population of British Columbia. Population trends List of local congregations Congregation Schara Tzedeck: Vancouver; Orthodox. Congregation Beth Hamidrash]: Vancouver; Orthodox (Sephardic). Chabad of Vancouver: Vancouver; Orthodox (Chabad-Lubavitch). Chabad of Downtown: Vancouver; Orthodox (Chabad-Lubavitch). Chabad of EastVan: Vancouver; Orthodox (Chabad-Lubavitch). Louis Brier Home and Hospital: Vancouver; Orthodox. Ohel Ya'akov Community Kollel: Vancouver; Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel: Vancouver; Conservative. Temple Sholom: Vancouver; Reform. Congregation Or Shalom: Vancouver; Jewish Renewal. Chabad of Richmond: Richmond; Orthodox (Chabad-Lubavitch). The Bayit; . Eitz Chaim Congregation: Richmond; Beth Tikvah Congregation: Richmond; Conservative. Burquest Jewish Community Association: Coquitlam; Reform. White Rock South Surrey Jewish Community Centre: South Surrey White Rock, Various. Centre for Judaism of the Lower Fraser Valley: White Rock; Orthodox (Chabad-Lubavitch). Congregation Har El: North Vancouver; Conservative. List of local Jewish schools Florence Melton Adult Mini-School: Part-time Judaic studies certificate program for adults from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, located in Vancouver at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. King David High School: Full-time Judaic and general studies for grades 8–12, located in Vancouver. Pacific Torah Institute: Full-time Judaic and general studies for male students, grades 8–12, located in Vancouver. Shalhevet Girls High School: Full-time Judaic and general studies for female students, grades 8–12, located in Vancouver. Richmond Jewish Day School: Daycare, preschool, and full-time Judaic and general studies for kindergarten to grade 7. Vancouver Talmud Torah: Preschool and full-time Judaic and general studies for kindergarten to grade 7. Vancouver Hebrew Academy, a private Orthodox Jewish day school offering preschool and full-time Judaic and general studies for kindergarten to grade 7. The academy is the only Orthodox Jewish elementary school in Vancouver. White Rock South Surrey Jewish Community Centre: Preschool and part-time Judaic and general studies for kindergarten to grade 7; youth