24 April 18 • 2019
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T
he results of the first-ever
national study of Jewish grand-
parents — commissioned by the
Jewish Grandparents Network — are
in. Nearly 8,000 individuals participat-
ed. Key findings include:
• While the majority of Jewish
grandparents find grandparenting to
be a joyful experience, grandparenting
can have its difficulties.
• Most grandparents are committed
to transmitting of Jewish values.
• Nearly half the grandparents have
a child married to a non-Jewish part-
ner.
• Most frequently, interactions
between grandparents and grand-
children take place in one another’
s
homes, around birthdays and national
holidays.
The study identified five segments
or groupings of Jewish grandparents,
based on shared attitudes and beliefs:
• Joyful Transmitters (20 percent)
love being grandparents and feel it’
s
important to transmit Jewish values
and beliefs.
• Faithful Transmitters (16 percent)
want their grandchildren to have a
strong connection to Judaism and to
marry Jews.
• Engaged Secularists (23 percent)
are engaged grandparents, but don’
t
model Jewish involvement for their
grandchildren.
• Wistful Outsiders (20 percent)
want to be more involved with their
grandchildren, but family dynamics
get in the way.
• Non-Transmitters (20 percent) are
not Jewishly engaged nor interested
in passing on Jewish practices to their
grandchildren.
According to David Raphael,
co-founder and CEO of the Jewish
Grandparents Network: “The challenge
for the Jewish community is to pivot
toward the wonderful opportunity to
engage grandparents in ways that ulti-
mately bring the entire family together
in meaningful Jewish experiences.
Grandparents can be partners in the
Jewish engagement work that so many
communities look to do.
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TO ALL OUR
CLIENTS, FAMILY
& FRIENDS!
Danny Raskin of the Detroit Jewish News will be honored
for his more than 75 years as a weekly columnist and restau-
rant critic with a Legacy Award at the Society of Professional
Journalists Detroit Chapter banquet May 2 at the San Marino
Club in Troy.
Also being honored with lifetime achievement awards are
longtime journalists Angelo B. Henderson and Felecia D.
Henderson; Rich Homberg, president and CEO of Detroit
Public Television; and Mary Schroeder, sports photographer and pioneer
for women in journalism. SPJ will also name Journalist of the Year, Young
Journalist of the Year and the winners of its Excellence in Journalism awards.
Discounted tickets can be purchased in advance of the banquet through
Friday, April 26. Tickets purchased at the door cost $70. Funds raised will
benefit SPJ Detroit’
s scholarship fund.
Additional details and tickets for the banquet are available at spjdetroit.org.
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