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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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GET IIEMU
according to Halachah
(Jewish law), a marriage can
be dissolved only by a get (di-
vorce document). If a woman
remarries without a get, she is
considered an adulteress, and
any child of this subsequent
marriage is considered a
mamzer. In Jewish law, there
is no illegitimacy out of wed-
lock, only illegitimacy out of
incest, adultery, or second
marriage without a get. In
Judaism, illegitimate children
can never marry legitimate
children.
Add all the above results to-
gether: By the turn of the cen-
tury there will be between
three-quarters of a million and
a million people whose
Jewishness is contested or
whose marriageability is de-
nied by a large group of other
Jews. It has been estimated
that the total American
Jewish population by the year
2000 will be five million. Some
say it will be even lower.
The conclusion is that,
within two decades, 15-20 per-
cent of American Jewry will be
socially and halachically
separated from traditional
Jews. Fifteen to twenty per-
cent is not a fringe phenom-
enon. Add to these people their
families, friends, their fellow
temple and organizational
members and they would con-
stitute a major fragment of
American Jewry. Easily 50
percent of the Jewish people
could be, in some way, allied
with this group against the
traditional Jews who chal-
lenge their status.
What do you think would be
the impact on you (or your
parents) if you were told that
you are not Jewish when your
parents tell you that you are,
when you believe you are, and
when you belong to a Jewish
temple and engage in Jewish
activities?
Tremendous anger surfaced
in the "Who is a Jew" con-
troversy. A measure of the in-
tensity is found in the resolu-
tion of the highly Zionist Con-
servative rabbinate to
"blacklist" from their pulpits
those Knesset members who
voted to change the law. Con-
servative and Reform Jews
(mistakenly) believed that the
rthodox were saying that
they are not Jewish, and not
' merely their converts are not
Jewish.
Manifestly, contested Jews
and their friends will express
resentment, will cut off funds
from traditional institutions,
and finally will not socialize
with the others. It is equally
likely that Orthodox and tra-
ditional parents will be afraid
o
to let their children meet such
Jews out of fear that they are
halachically not Jewish. The
risk of intermarriage in a new,
insidious form will be upper-
most in the traditional par-
ents' minds.
One can project a cycle of
alienation, hostility, and
withdrawal that will lead to a
sundering of the Jewish people
into two religious or two social
There will be 750,000
to one million people
whose Jewishness is
contested . . . by a
large group of other
Jews.
groups, fundamentally di-
vided and opposed to each
other.
If the numbers in the above
estimates are too high — and
they may well be too low —
then it may take until the year
2020 or 2050 to arrive at the
same disastrous end. But what
difference does a few decades
make over the long span of
Jewish history?
All it will take is neglect,
doing nothing, to make this
script — which makes my
hand shudder as it writes —
come true. Yet, at this mo-
ment, there is no brainstorm-
ing, let alone serious dialogue,
between the movements to
deal with the problem.
Copyright 1985, The National Jewish
Resource Center.
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Publication of the community
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