Policy on Printing Mixed Marriage
Announcements Altered by Jewish Paper

Je ■ si,h newspapers across the' and no conversion to Judaism takes,
One rabbi on the board re-
country have been forced to do place
called that in his 13 years of
much soul searching in the past : About a year ago, The Detroit
association with his congrega-
few years on the question of pub- 1 Jewish News was queried by the
tion, there were many times
lishing announcements of mixed Jewish News of Newark—a corn-
when he was asked to perform
marriages - those in which each munity-owned paper—as to its pot
an intermarriage. Some of them
partner keeps his own religion, icy on the reporting of interwar- ; were quite active in the syna-
rages
gogue. Despite this, he adhered
The Detroit paper indicated that
to the policy of not performing
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
in those cases where a mixed mar-
an intermarriage unless there
16—Friday, June 23, 1972
nage is evident (i.e. no rabbi per-
was a formal conversion to Ju-
forming; the ceremony). an an- daism.
, nouncement will be printed in the
His experience with young
engagements (or weddings) column • people. he said, is that they are not
only, and no photograph will be ' terribly concerned about report-
published. While it was admitted ing their marriages, intermarriage
that this was no perfect solution, or not, in either the Jewish or pub-
June 23rd to July 5th
it would at least show the news- lie press. The concern is more on
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paper's stand against mixed mar- the part of their parents.
rages. without shutting the couple
The new policy, in which notices
out of the community
of marriages will be published
Subsequently, the Newark Jew- only if both parties are Jewish,
ish News held a board of trustees will be published each week in the
meeting, and at the end of a society section.
hour discussion. a new. policy was
* •• '
instituted
POLICY OF THE DETROIT
The vote in favor of the new
JEWISH NEWS ON
(procedure (6-4 with one absten-
PUBLICATION OF
Lion) reflected the wide r7nge of
INTERMARRIAGES
opinion how a community should
The Jewish News prints both

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facts in the marriage announce-lconversion is indicated if the name
nient raise questions in the mind 1 of an officiating rabbi is included
of the editor as to whether both in the announcement, Therefore.

are Jewish will be published. time it does not wish to lock any-
During discussion of the issue, i one out of the community by refus-
it emerged that great pressures in..; to publish any announcement
had been put upon the paper—and at a ll
the Jewish Community Council of
Essex Counts . . which controls the
to liberality its policy tin
PaPer
luhllcatlon of nosed marriage's It
• pointed out that parents. nut
tile couples thernselses, were en
ertir,i the pressure
Al the same time. rabbinical
'bodies urged that publication of
marriage announcement, be limit
ed solely to those in se hich both
brid• and bridegroom are Jewish
Prior to the vote, it had been
a practice of the paper to re-
fuse to print the announcement
of any marriage performed h.
a minister or a priest, even if
the family offered to omit from
the story any reference to the
of ficiating
clergyman
or
the
place of marriage.
was
pe by a en ii the
tore would he printed on the
raticriale that conser.i in of the
nor Jewish partner tii Judaism was
still a passibility
All engagement notices
55 ere
published as submitted. without
questioning the lavishness of either
partner or whether a conversion
was planned
That current practice had dei
slated from the board's policy set
than lie sears ago. in which it
was decided that the paper should
tiohleili notices of mixed marriage
encaLiernents and weddings if put,
lication N a, requested by the fans
e nv
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respond to an increasing number story and photograph of a bride
of mixed marriages.
l or bride-elect if both parties to
It was resolved that:
the marriage are
Jewish. The
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Any engagement announce- same holds true if cor .rsion to
ments submitted by a member of !Judaism has taken pl.
or is
the Jewish community should be under way, under Orthoi
Con-
published
servative or Reform ausp
"B.
In those instances where the ; The Jewish News assum
chat

partners to the marriage are Jew- all who submit such announcements
ish, he or a member of his edi-1are requested to include the name
tonal staff shall inquire verbally of the rabbi performing the
of either the bride • groom of a ceremony.
parent, whoever is most accessible,
Where conversion is not taking
as tee the Jewishness of the bride • place, announcement of the en-
and groom. In every instance, The
gagement or wedding will appear
Jewish News is to accept with.1
in the appropriate column with-
out question the verbal statement
out photograph.
of the bride, groom or parent as
The Jewish News feels that it
to the Jewishness of both partners 1 is completely
within its rights to
to the marrige '• Only those take a stand—however symbolic—
marriages in which both parties against intermarriage. At the

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