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intermarriage
Study: 1 in 4 British Jews intermarry, half the rate of US Jews
Jewish Journal
July 6, 2016
Intermarriage among British Jews in 2011 stood at 26 percent, or roughly half the rate documented among American Jews, according to a new demographic study.
Reconstructionists consider dropping ban on intermarried rabbis
Julie Bien
April 22, 2015
The Reconstructionist movement is on the cusp of making a historic decision about whether to drop its longstanding ban against intermarried rabbinical school students.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz takes back critique of intermarriage
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2015
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz rescinded comments she made about the problems that intermarriage poses for the Jewish community.
Call for protest spurs Arab groom, Jewish-born bride to hire security for party
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2014
An Arab man and his Jewish-born bride hired 14 security guards for their wedding celebration in Israel in response to an anti-intermarriage Jewish group’s call for a protest rally at the hall.
A short history of Jewish intermarriage
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2013
JTA’s Uriel Heilman reported this week on the continuing evolution of Jewish attitudes toward intermarriage. After the clarion call of the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey showed a 52 percent intermarriage rate among American Jews, Jewish groups poured millions into efforts to stem what was seen as a threat to the future of the community.
The war against intermarriage has been lost. Now what?
Jewish Journal
August 6, 2013
When the nation’s largest Jewish federation convened its first-ever conference recently on engaging interfaith families, perhaps the most notable thing about it was the utter lack of controversy that greeted the event.
Stage dramedy tackles interfaith marriage taboo
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2012
If you take Israel out of the equation, there’s little in the Jewish world that gets people as riled up as the idea of intermarriage.
More Reform rabbis performing interfaith weddings
Jewish Journal
July 3, 2012
Danny Richter and his fiancée, Lauren Perkins, have never been to a Jewish wedding, yet this fall, the interfaith couple is planning to be married in a Jewish wedding ceremony.
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