Introducing...
The '92
identity is purely voluntary
and is no longer simply a
matter of birth, we need to
try everything."
One sign of just how wide-
ly opinions varied was the
behind-the-scenes G.A. mini-
brouhaha over the accuracy
of the CJF's population
study.
The study, the release of
which earlier this year
prompted all the soul-
searching that took place at
the G.A., placed the current
rate of intermarriage at 52
percent nationally and con-
cluded that only about a
quarter of the children of
intermarriages are being
raised as Jews.
However, those findings
have been challenged by
Steven M. Cohen, a Queens
College, N.Y., sociologist
who says the methodology
employed by the CJF study
may have inadvertently
overstated the problem.
Barry A. Kosmin, CJF's
research director, vehement-
ly defended the survey, and
cited similar findings by
other researchers.
Regardless, G.A. dele-
gates, largely unaware of
this difference of profes-
sional opinions, accepted
CJF's figures as accurate —
and highly alarming.
For a don't-ruffle-any-
feathers organization such
as CJF, the mere placement
of the highly divisive issue
on the G.A. agenda (a day-
long forum on intermarriage
highlighted this issue)
underscored the depth of
concern. But for many, the
issue has already come home
to roost, and their very per-
sonal fear is that their own
grandchildren will abandon
the faith.
One high-ranking CJF of-
ficial allowed that he fought
to get the issue on the agen-
da during pre-G.A. program
wrangling because one of his
own children had married a
non-Jew.
The most concrete expres-
sion of this concern was the
adoption of a new CJF Mis-
sion Statement, one that
stressed working with local
"religious, cultural, social
service and educational" in-
stitutions to "preserve and
foster" Jewish values.
The statement,
unanimously adopted by
G.A. delegates without
debate at the G.A.'s sole ses-
sion for voting on resolu-
tions, also employed, for the
first time, Hebrew terms —
albeit in transliterated Eng-
lish — for such core Jewish
values as giving charity,
Jewish communal respon-
sibility and working for so-
cial justice.
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