Intermarriage in israel

Last month Israel erupted in controversy when a Bible study convention, “Tanach 929,” invited an Israel-Arab media personality as a speaker.

Some observers might be tempted to dismiss the significance of such intermarriages. But a deeper dive into the data leaves no room for doubt, we have a problem.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

At least 2,460 couples with one Jewish spouse and one non-Jewish spouse registered their marriages in 2018, a 37% increase over 2011 numbers.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Most Jews who have married in the past decade have wed non-Jewish partners. But most current intermarried couples with children are raising those children Jewish.

What is not appreciated by those who view intermarriage as bringing about the demise of the Jewish people is that the US Jewish population has actually been steadily increasing.

The Jewish dating website, JWed, announced this week that it is raffling off a free trip to Israel to any couple who met through JWed or its predecessor site, Frumster.

Peretz’s comments “are a reflection of a flawed religious outlook and contempt for the Holocaust,” says Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutch, dean of Schechter Rabbinical Seminary.

“Clergy of the Conservative/Masorti movement may officiate at weddings only if both parties are Jewish,” the law committee’s ruling read.

Politicians who care about intermarriage should focus on a lot more than the choices of two individuals