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Choosing Outside Judaism
The religious affiliation of the spouses of people who are Jewish by birth, by year of marriage.
Married:
1965 1974
Before 406-5 --
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9%
Other
25%
Jewish
89%
Convert 2%*
Convert *
Jewish
69%
Other
44%
Jewish
49%
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Other
52%
Jewish
43%
Convert *
Convert *
People who converted to Judaism.
Source: Council of Jewish Federations
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198S and after
197571984
Jewish Abandonment,
Yet Faith Prevails
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ EDITOR EMERITUS
n 1984 American Jewry
was more deeply stirred
than in decades by a book
written by researcher
David S. Wyman, professor
of history at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
It is titled The Abandonment
of the Jews, America and the
Holocaust, 1941-1945, and it
continues to be among the
most serious awakening
messages in the com-
mitments to battling
hatreds.
It is important for our ge-
neration to be aware of more
than one abandonment. One
that keeps emerging is rep-
resented in an article under
the title "Debating Inter-
marriage and Jewish Sur-
vival (front page New York
Times April 18) by Peter
Steinfels. Because of this
challenge, especially as one
concerning Jewish survival,
it must be considered among
subjective abandonments.
Because we never abandon
survival of faith, we will
give it serious attention.
The Steinfels article is ac-
companied by a chart la-
beled "Choosing Outside
Judaism."
The mixed marriage
challenges have never been
secrets to us. But these fig-
ures merit knowing to con-
front the issues involved.
There has always been our
adherence to a faith that is
undeniable.
Through the centuries
there has always been resor-
ting to proclaimed she'arit
Yisroel - Remnants of Israel.
The remnants could always
be attributed to survivalism.
This does not mean that we
abandon the battle of sur-
vivalism against the mixed
marriage threat. It means
holding fast to faith and
making the plea for increas-
ed loyalties from our youth.
It demands adherence to our
cultural and religious lega-
cies.
We are not losing this
battle. The Zionist ideal con-
tinues to prove it. Faith as
well as the results of one ex-
odus after another into
Israel proves it.
For nearly five years, we
have been subjected to
endless threats to Israel's
very existence, which was
instigated by Arab antago-
nists and their supporters,
It demands
adherence to our
cultural and
religious legacies.
which sorrowfully included
some Jews who operated as
peaceniks and who were
misled by distortions and the
continuous hatreds of our
people and our aspirations.
In the course of the
spreading of bigotries rela-
ting to the Zionist movement
and its aims, no secret was
made of the desire to wreck
the United States-Israel co-
operation and friendship.
In the hate mongering and
regrettable misleading of
some Jews into a deplorable
pro-Arab sentiment, the se-
riousness of Jewish and
Israeli commitments to the
peace aims were ignored.
The heartening counter sen-
timents and the strength of
the Jewish loyalty to the
Zionist commitments were
never abandoned.
It has borne fruit in em-
phasizing the importance of
the friendship of the two
nations. In the years of hate
spreading against Jews and
Israel, some members of
both houses of Congress
gave up their many years of
support for Israel. Now we
have the reaffirmation that
established congressional
friendship remains a power-
ful national supporting fac-
tor for Israel.
It is this reaffirmed duo-
national idealism that gives
us renewed courage in our
esteemed friendships.
Grants, which assure the
continuity of settling in
Israel of millions of Jews
from lands of oppression, are
so vital that details of them
should be widely known.
They are as summarized by
AIPAC:
On September 18, the
Senate Appropriations
Foreign Operations Sub-
committee favorably re-
ported out the FY 93
foreign aid appropriations
bill. The bill, approved in a
relatively quick and non-
controversial mark-up, in-
cludes: $10 billion in loan
guarantees over five years
for the absorption of im-
migrants in Israel; $1.2
billion in earmarked