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"Intermarriage has been
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that we should call it a fact of
life. It's a consequence of living
in a free and open society and
of living with organizations that
perhaps have not been as mag-
netic and compelling as they
could be."
Those remarks opened a
sometimes stormy session on
outreach to intermarried cou-
ples. By its end, an exhausted
group of about 100 people had
heard from Orthodox and
Reform rabbis, sociologists, fed-
the validity of interfaith mar-
riages, pointed out Dr. Barry
Kosmin, CJF director of re-
search and author of the 1990
CJF population study.
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fectly comfortable with, you
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er of a Jewish child is Jewish
and that half the children of
these interfaith families are
Jewish," he said.
But a man married to a non-
Jew disputed the talk of
Halachah when he said, "We
don't always have control over
whom we fall in love with these
days."
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Comparing notes with like-minded Jews from across the continent is a major feature
of the GA.
eration professionals, Jews by
choice, intermarried Jews and
their parents.
"The vast majority of people
whom we treat as our concern
labor under a veil of mystery,"
said Egon Mayer, director of the
New York-based Jewish
Outreach Institute. 'They have
no idea that the Jewish com-
munity is interested in them."
Part of the problem is seen in
how outsiders are greeted in the
Jewish community, some ar-
gued.
"You go to a church and
someone says, 'Take my seat';
you go to a synagogue and
someone says, 'You're in my
seat,' " said Linda Cornell
Weinstein of Rochester, N.Y.
"We're talking about those in-
terfaith families who want to
be part of Jewish life. Maybe
not sure definitely of what that
means, but they are taking the
first step."
Further, the Jewish commu-
nity contradicts itself when of-
fering blanket statements on
federation presidents still re-
mains low at 22.6 percent over-
all (seven percent in large cities,
but rising to 30 percent in small
cities).
Women were vocal at sever-
al workshops and forums about
their need to take more leader-
ship. That leadership tran-
scended the issue of federation
participation. Indeed, some of
the most emotional, heated dis-
cussion came on women's rights
in divorce issues, especially the
area of agunot, or women lack-
ing a get from their husbands.
"We need federation to say
this is an issue," one woman
said. "Something must change,
because the rights of women, of
families, are being manipulat-
ed here."
Throughout the GA, there
was a wide-ranging outlook on
women's roles in Judaism.
Rabbi Riskin talked about how
God has a feminine side or spir-
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to the Jewish people.
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