Wednesday, October 28th, 2009...1:56 am
WSJ :”Jewish Marriage Tied to Israel Trip”
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“A new study found that rates of marriage outside the faith were sharply curbed among young Jews who have taken “birthright” trips to Israel, a development that could hearten Jewish leaders worried about assimilation. Fears of shrinkage among the American Jewish population heightened after studies in the early 1990s showed that more than 50% of Jews were marrying non-Jews, potentially making it more difficult to pass the religion on to offspring. Most estimates of America’s Jewish population place it a little higher than six million, although some demographers have argued it is higher. The U.S. census doesn’t track people by faith. ” more@WSJ.com
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