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Call for protest spurs Arab groom, Jewish-born bride to hire security for party
An Arab man and his Jewish-born bride hired 14 security guards for their wedding celebration in Israel in response to an anti-intermarriage Jewish group’s call for a protest rally at the hall.
A short history of Jewish intermarriage
JTA’s Uriel Heilman reported this week on the continuing evolution of Jewish attitudes toward intermarriage. After the clarion call of the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey showed a 52 percent intermarriage rate among American Jews, Jewish groups poured millions into efforts to stem what was seen as a threat to the future of the community.
The war against intermarriage has been lost. Now what?
When the nation’s largest Jewish federation convened its first-ever conference recently on engaging interfaith families, perhaps the most notable thing about it was the utter lack of controversy that greeted the event.
More Reform rabbis performing interfaith weddings
Danny Richter and his fiancée, Lauren Perkins, have never been to a Jewish wedding, yet this fall, the interfaith couple is planning to be married in a Jewish wedding ceremony.
Jewish parent + Christian parent = Jewish kids
Many interfaith couples are raising their children to be Jews, even without conversion of the non-Jewish parent.
Conejo and West Valley shuls rate high with newcomers
The JOI presented results from \”The Jewish Outreach Scan of the West Valley/Conejo Valley\” during a well-attended Jewish Federation/Valley Alliance board meeting at The New JCC at Milken in West Hills on Oct. 4. The survey was funded by the United Jewish Communities\’ Emerging Communities Project.