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Intermarriage Not Reducing
U.S. Jews, According to Survey

RAMAT GAN—Despite
numerous warnings during
past years, the American
Jewish community is not
being depleted by inter-
marriage. The main reason,
it appears, is that a large
proportion of non-Jewish
spouses convert to Judaism
and that the birthrate of
these couples makes up for
the losses.
This is one of the con-
clusions from a recently
completed computerized
analysis of an extensive sur-
vey conducted in the United
States on intermarriage
among Jews. While the sur-
vey itself was carried out
several years ago, the com-
puterized analysis was com-
pleted only recently at Bar-
Ilan University in Israel by
Prof. Bernard Lazerwitz, a
research expert who used
the university's giant IBM
computer to reach his con-
clusions.
The survey showed that 31
percent of spouses from
mixed marriage convert to

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Judaism. Prof. Lazerwitz
found that these formerly
mixed couples want to have
more children than those
where the non-Jewish
spouse failed to convert to
Judaism. Furthermore, he
found that the converted are
generally as committed to
Judaism as are born Jews.
In addition, Jews whose
spouses converted, have
more Jewish education than
those whose spouses did not
convert.

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At the same time, very
few Jews who intermarry
convert out of Judaism.
Thus, there is every chance
that the children of those 31
percent of intermarriages
where the non-Jewish
spouse converted to
Judaism, will get a Jewish
upbringing. Conversely
there is no certainty that
the children of the other
marriages will not.
According to the Bar-Ilan
professor's analysis, by the
start of the 1970's only seven
percent of the Jewish adults.
who have been married at
any time ever intermarried.
The figure reaches 14 per-
cent, however, when applied
to currently married Jews
under 35 years of age. The
figure goes still higher — 20
percent — for second mar-
riages by Jewish couples
whose first marriage has
failed.
Prof. Lazerwitz's advice
for communal and religious
authorities who want to help
reduce intermarriage is to
extend extra help to those
Jews whose marriages
break up and are thus the
most prone to intermarry
subsequently.

1—TWENTY-ONE YESHIVOT BNEI AKIVA
2—TWELVE YESHIVOT HESDER
3—NINETY-EIGHT RELIGIOUS AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENTS
4—TWO-HUNDRED-EIGHTY-THREE RELIGIOUS RECREATION AND -
CULTURAL C,ENTERS IN ISRAEL
5—EIGHT HUNDRED-AND-SEVEN RELIGIOUS KINDERGARTENS
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13—KASHRUTH AND SABBATH OBSERVANCE IN DEF_ENSE FORCES
AND ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
14--PROJECTION OF NATIONAL LAW FOR SABBATH AS DAY OF
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15—MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE LAWS IN KEEPING WITH HALACHA
16—EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY OF TORAH JUDAISM THROUGH CHIEF
RABBINATE, BETH DIN (RELIGIOUS COURTS) AND RELIGI1OUS
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Katzirs Conclude

THE RELIGIOUS ZIONIST MOVEMENT SLATE
HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY:

Visit to Americas

TEL AVIV t (JTA)—Presi-
dent Ephraim Katzir and
Mrs. Katzir returned last
week from an 18-day visit to
Mexico and Central Amer-
ica.
The President told report-
ers at Ben Gurion Airport
that there was a great deal
of support and friendship
for Israel in those countries
which was expressed in
their mass media.
.The Katzirs visited Costa
Rica and Guatemala in ad-
dition to Mexico.

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Herut Drops Suit

NEW YORK—Herut-USA
has withdrawn its court suit
against Zionist organization
of America. The suit, origi-
nally filed to bar WA from
using pictures of Prime
Minister Menahem Begin
and Minister of Defense
Ezer Weizman in the 29th
Zionist Congress election,
became a moot point when
the Central Election Board
in Jerusalem barred all pic-
tures from campaign liter-
ature that will accompany
the ballots, announced Har-
ry S. Taubenfeld, chairman
of Herut's executive board.

AND MANY, MANY OTHERS TO STRENGTHEN OUR
GOALS FOR ERETZ YISROEL AL, PI TORAH YISROEL
IN THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
BE PROUD OF THIS RECORD BY CASTING YOUR
VOTE FOR RELIGIOUS ZIONISM.

RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA
UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS
YAVNEH
THE STUDENTS ORGANIZATION OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK
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CHIEF RABBI SHLOMO GOREN
HERMAN ROSENBAUM — PRES. NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF YOUNG ISRAEL
DR. YOSEF BURG — MINISTER OF INTERIOR
ZEVULUN HAMMER — MINISTER OF EDUCATION
AHARON ABU CHATZERA — MINISTER OF RELIGIONS
AND THE ENTIRE MAFDAL DELEGATION TO THE KNESSET

VOTE SLATE 5

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THE RELIGIOUS
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(MIZRACHI HAPOEL HAMIZRACHI, AMERICAN MIZRACHI WOMEN,
HAPOEL HAMIZRACHI WOMEN, BNEI AKIVA, NOAM & YAVNEH)

