"A 2020 survey conducted in the United States by the Pew Research Center found that 42% of all currently married Jewish respondents indicated they have a non-Jewish spouse. Among those who had married since 2010, 61% were intermarried and the percent increases to 72% when Orthodox Jews were excluded from the data." -- Wikipedia, https://bit.ly/4bzLFU2
Other sources quote a 70% intermarriage rate among non-Orthodox American Jews, since the 1970s. IOW, very few of the now 2nd (3rd?) generation American Jews since the 1970s are, in fact, "Jews". What are they? They're the modern-day equivalent of the ערב רב -- the "mixed multitude" who tagged-along when our ancestors left Egypt. And today, in practice, they're the "'Jews' for Justice for Palestinians", the "Jewish Voice for Peace", the "'Jews' for Jesus", the "Court Jews" like Mayorkas, Blinken, and so many others.
We need to repudiate them... and the sooner, the better.
I am of the opinion that the intermarriage rate amongst non-orthodox jews is directly correlated to the response of orthodxy in the post-enlightenment era, namely that we were completely unwilling to engage in meaningful conversation with them and specificaly did not have an answer to the youth of that time in how judaism could be 100% relevant in the modern era. I do not think repudation is the answer, we need to work on openess and dialouge with them in marketplace of ideas, more hatred is not the answer.
We know that catastrophic and near disastrous events as well as a rise in anti Semitism awaken in many a sense of Hirhurei Teshuvah , rethinking and discovering what it means to be a committed Jew .This is evident since 10/7 among many of our brothers and sisters who thought they were part of the woke world or who had never explored any aspects of their tradition in both the US and Israel We need to reach out to our brothers and sisters one Mitzvah at a time
"A 2020 survey conducted in the United States by the Pew Research Center found that 42% of all currently married Jewish respondents indicated they have a non-Jewish spouse. Among those who had married since 2010, 61% were intermarried and the percent increases to 72% when Orthodox Jews were excluded from the data." -- Wikipedia, https://bit.ly/4bzLFU2
Other sources quote a 70% intermarriage rate among non-Orthodox American Jews, since the 1970s. IOW, very few of the now 2nd (3rd?) generation American Jews since the 1970s are, in fact, "Jews". What are they? They're the modern-day equivalent of the ערב רב -- the "mixed multitude" who tagged-along when our ancestors left Egypt. And today, in practice, they're the "'Jews' for Justice for Palestinians", the "Jewish Voice for Peace", the "'Jews' for Jesus", the "Court Jews" like Mayorkas, Blinken, and so many others.
We need to repudiate them... and the sooner, the better.
I am of the opinion that the intermarriage rate amongst non-orthodox jews is directly correlated to the response of orthodxy in the post-enlightenment era, namely that we were completely unwilling to engage in meaningful conversation with them and specificaly did not have an answer to the youth of that time in how judaism could be 100% relevant in the modern era. I do not think repudation is the answer, we need to work on openess and dialouge with them in marketplace of ideas, more hatred is not the answer.
This is it!!
We know that catastrophic and near disastrous events as well as a rise in anti Semitism awaken in many a sense of Hirhurei Teshuvah , rethinking and discovering what it means to be a committed Jew .This is evident since 10/7 among many of our brothers and sisters who thought they were part of the woke world or who had never explored any aspects of their tradition in both the US and Israel We need to reach out to our brothers and sisters one Mitzvah at a time