rree iiircirriage Up Among Jewish College Students
MIAMI BEACH (JTA) —
An expert of Jewish com-
munal life has warned, in an
assessment of forces affect-
ing the modern Jewish fam-
ily, that there has been "a
great growth and accept-
ance" of "free marriage" on
campuses among Jewish
students to the point where
"even parents are beginning
to accept it."
The assessment was made
by Prof. Gerald R. Bubis, di-
rector of the Los Angeles
school of Jewish communal
service of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, during a recent
visit in Miami Beach for an
experimental effort to cope
with the dwindling "to-
getherness" and dwindling
Jewishness of the American
Jewish home. The experi-
ment involved five young
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whose board of governors is
currently holding its annual
institute in Israel, presented
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couples and their children
from each of the five Re-
form synagogues in the
Miami area.
In his assessment, in
which he contended that
there had been a noticeable
improvement in the Jewish
family, Bubis catalogued
the "good news" and the
"bad news" he had found in
his visits to various parts of
the country in connection
with the observance this
year of the centennial of the
HUC-JIR, the Reform semi-
nary-school.
In discussing the accept-
ance of "free marriage"
on campuses, Bubis said
the Jewish parents were
accepting it, "however re-
luctantly," and that the
parents were even begin-
ning "to talk openly about
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their children who are en-
gaged in it." He cited as
another negative develop-
ment a still small but
growing number of Jewish
women who declare "they
don't want to get married
but still want to have chil-
dren and go looking for a
likely male to father
them."
Another group, he said, is
made up of couples who
"don't believe in children.
They are in the avant garde
in the zero population of the
Jewish community." There
are also, he said, Jews in
communes, "some of whom
want a Jewish life, others
who don't." He asserted also
that there was a growing
number of Jewish widows
and "single parent" fami-
lies, "including homes from
which the wife has walked
away, leaving the kids for
the father to raise."
Bubis said that the "good
news" is that "most people
want to have families and, if
the marriage doesn't work
the first time, they try, try
again." In the experimental
effort, he met with the 25
couples and their children at
a Sabbath eve dinner and in-
novative service, prepared
largely by him at a Friday
Arab-Jewish Marriages Up
TEL AVIV — Mixed mar-
riages, between Arab males
and Jewish females, has
been seen to be on the in-
crease here.
According to a survey of
the inter-faith couples, the
marriages have not always
been for romantic reasons,
but for economic. Anthro-
pologist Dr. Joseph Ginat
found after his survey of 420
mixed couples that the mar-
riage has not always led to
happiness.
Dr. Ginat reported that
virtually all female partners
- in -•sUch'intermarriages are
Jewish and males are
usually Arab. In six cases of
those _interviewed was the
Situation reversed.
Up to 90-percent of the
(Jewish) -:wives are of Or-
iental extraction. Half of
them-4-re •"-sabras," and
mostat,Aime little formal
eatte411.4%
fin -involved, 80
__-;per.cent4ix:illoslem, 15 per-
cent:am:Christian, and 5
-Rattnti=4)f-both the Arab
antli -were usually
_tto the union but
were found -to change their
minds upon the birth of the
first child.
-
Even though mixed mar-
riages are almost impossi-
=ble in Israel since the rab-
binate has exclusive
jurisdiction over the mar-
riage ceremony, the prob-
lem in most cases is solved
by conversion — of the
wife to the Moslem faith.
Dr. Ginat said that Arab-
Jewish intermarriage may
be prompted by the follow-
ing:
• Economics: To a girl of
a prolific and poor Jewish
family, living in a crowded
slum, marriage with a well-
to-do Arab boy may be a
solution.
• Bride prices: In order
to get married, an Arab boy
must pay "mohar" (bride
price) to the girl's father.
Millionaire Left
Debts in Millions
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Jo-
seph (Yossele) Rosenhaft,
the Jewish millionaire and
entrepreneur, who passed
away three months ago in
New York, died owing more
than $20 million, according
to Israeli press accounts.
The late Rosenhaft was
president of the Organiza-
tion of Survivors of Bergen-
Belsen.
evening at Temple Israel.
He followed this up with a
discussion on the Jewish
family with the same cou-
ples at Saturday morning
services at Temple Beth
Sholom.
He explained that the
goal was to have the fami-
lies take back what they had
learned to other families in
their synagogues in an ef-
fort to restore the warm
Sabbath atmosphere to the
home and family from
which, he said, it has all but
vanished; or to form small
havurot — fellowships — an
innovation which has been
spreading in Reform con-0,
gregations with stress on
experimentation and inti-
macy in worship meetings.
Often he cannot raise the
amount — about $4,000 or
so and instead may solve the
problem by marrying a Jew-
ish girl.
• Psychological: No Arab
boy may marry without his
family's consent and its sub-
sequent interference in his
own family life. The new
generation resents that
tradition and to some, mar-
rying outside the commu-
nity means liberation and
self-fulfillment.
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