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iberal and centrist
American Jews appear
o have accepted
intermarriage as an
unavoidable byproduct of
life in an open society and
have traded their traditional
attitude of admonition for
one that espouses acceptance
and outreach, the coor-
dinator of two new studies
on intermarriage said this
week.
According to researcher
Egon Mayer, the studies
show that parents would
rather see their children
marry non-Jews than re-
main single. In addition, the
parents are willing to tacitly
accept a patrilineal standard
for Jewish identity.
Moreover, parents over-
whelmingly want rabbis to
officiate at intermarriages
and believe synagogues and
other Jewish institutions
should be more welcoming of
non-Jewish spouses.
"The bottom line is that
more than anything, people
want Jewish family con-
tinuity and they want it at
almost any cost," said Dr.
Mayer, a sociology professor
at Brooklyn College and
senior research fellow at the
Center for Jewish Studies at
the City University of New
York graduate school. "They
want all ideological barriers
down.
"This is a very emotional
issue for people and they are
anguished by what is hap-
pening in their families. It
strikes home and they feel
it's better to be more in-
clusive then to hold to
rules."
Dr. Mayer's findings are
sure to fuel the growing rift
between liberal and centrist
Jews and their more staun-
chly traditional co-
religionists who abhor any
hint of compromise with the
ever-growing rate of inter-
marriage among American
Jewry.
Earlier surveys have
shown the intermarriage
rate to be as high as 60 per-
cent in some portions of the
country. In about 30 percent
of those marriages, the non-
Jewish spouse eventually
converts to Judaism. Only 5
percent of the marriages
result in the Jewish spouse
converting out of the faith.
However, in the vast
majority of mixed mar-
riages, the Jewish partner
and their children tend to
"drift away" from Jewish
identification, Dr. Mayer
noted. Because of that, most
American Jews in past
decades considered inter-
marriage a sure route to
assimilation and a severe
threat to the continued exis-
tence of Jewish ethnicity
and Judaism's religious
identity.
In one survey Dr. Mayer, a
leading researcher on