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US-Israeli Jews' intermarriage rate up
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Published: 09.12.13, 15:40
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1. The power of words (and statistics)
Avi Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (12.09.13)
An alternate headline would have been: "IAC Study: American-Jewish intermarriage rate exceeds Israeli-Americans by more than 3 to 1". But, since the IAC doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds them, they chose not to offend anyone. When anyone asks me who is the IAC and what do they stand for, I tell them they're like Nefesh B'Nefesh - only in reverse.
2. emanuel brothers
avi ,   nyc   (12.09.13)
look at how all the Emanual brothers married shiksas. actually maybe that was a good thing.
3. And? What's the point of such a racist study?
(12.09.13)
Let people live their lives
4. Intermarriage
Yossi ,   Israel   (12.09.13)
The Pew report concluded that 58% of American Jews intermarry.If we add the conclusions of the Midgam survey the number of Jews, native and Israeli residents, the intermarriage rate is higher.The official policy of the state of Israel since its founding has been to encourage aliya to a "Jewish state" and escape the perils of assimilation and intermarriage.One shudders to think that were two states to come into being, the prospects for intermarriage between Jews and Arabs would increase.
5. This is old News
Yossi ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (12.09.13)
Ynet - this is old news. It was already on NRG - Maariv;s web site over a week ago!
6. #3, What's you business?
Jake   (12.09.13)
We want to protect our community and future. It's called looking after your own interests, not "racism".
7. Welcome News!
World Citizen ,   the world   (12.09.13)
The less they feel connected the better off they and the rest of us are.
8. Jake you cannot control people's choices
(12.09.13)
Even if you want to "protect" your "community" you cannot control people's lives jut for the sake of it otherwise you're a dictator. Personal choices are way more important than your nationalistic fantasies
9. The Jews have maintained the true Sabbath of the Lord, the
Rivkah   (12.09.13)
customs of the Torah and half even know Yahoshua of Nazareth was the Messiah in His advent as the sacrificial lamb. For Jews to turn to Emperor Constantine's paganized religions or to atheists for spouses who do not wish to conform to the Torah, is sad for them. There was a man in the Scriptures whose father died touching the ark of the Covenant when King David was moving it. He was not a priest, so touching the ark was deadly. His son decided not to go to Tabernacle (Temple worship) in his anger at his father's death although the son loved HaShem. That did not affect his eternal fate but it did affect his children since without Temple instructions they became as the pagans instead of conforming the HaShem's ways. That is the lesson to be learned here. It only takes one generation absent from the Torah's instructions to turn subsequent generations away from HaShem.
10. #7, after 2000+ years of trying to destroy the Jewish people
Jake   (12.09.13)
whether through Hellenism, religious conversion, expulsions, genocides, state "atheism", "class struggle", etc., it is high time "the world" realizes it has utterly failed in its unholy war against the Jews and will only continue to do so. Time to throw in the towel, admit defeat, save what little face you might have, stop trolling, and get a LIFE!
11. Why do Jewish men die before their wives??
Woody Allen ,   Tel Aviv   (12.09.13)
... because they want to ;)
12. HOW WOULD YOU REACT TO...
Avi ,   NYC, USA   (12.10.13)
This headline, in a German Newspaper: "A study among German immigrants to the US indicated that 27% married spouses who are not of German origin. Of these: 80% married white Christians, 15% married Blacks or Hispanics. 3% married Orientals. 2% married Jews. Our correspondent contacted Helga, a young lawyer in NYC who is married to a Jew, and asked her: "Why did you marry a Jew?". Her reply was: "Why not?" Go figure.
13. Like all moral Choices
Zechariah   (12.10.13)
Like all moral choices can go many ways.But for the Nazis and Antisemites the danger is always there .
14. Not "racist," a sociological study
rivkah f. ,   jerusalem   (12.10.13)
There are many Dutch people who have immigrated to Canada and Dutch sociologists have studied their integration into Canada -- their children, their ties with Holland. I see no reason why Israeli/Americans cannot be a subject for a sociological study like those of other ethnic/religious groups in the U.S. The questions seem perfectly valid and the results are interesting and show that the longer Israelis live in America, the younger they are when they come to the U.S., they are more integrated and likely to marry Americans -- even those who are not Jewish. This complements the recent Pew survey of Jews in the U.S. Nothing "racist", just facts. If Israeli/Americans want to remain Jews, they'll have to make extra efforts, just like American Jews must. Of course, it is their choice. No one is forcing them to do so. It's a free world. So stop reading things into a sociological study that do not seem to be there.
15. intermarriage among Jews
DavidR ,   USA   (12.11.13)
Putting aside the Religious definition of being a Jew, there remains the truth that Jewish blood is the same despite religious practices. Therefore, marriage in the West between Jews with Jewish blood and the majority of westerners who are of the Ten Tribes in exile and don't know it, it may not be as much an assimilation as previous thought. They are unknowingly marring within the Tribes. We all are ignorant of Spiritual Truth to some degree and there is a day coming when the Northern Ten Tribes will awaken from their slumber that The Holy One of Israel has put them under in order to seed the nations with the blood of Avraham. It has already begun. A little research of the topic will show the truth of it.
16. "53% don't send kids to Jewish day schools "....
Eshkol Hakofer   (12.12.13)
of course, because jewish schools cost money. Israelis don't like to pay for something available free or cheaper. For the same reason, they attend chabad services instead of jewish synagogues, Because at chabad, they can get away without paying members dues, while in real jewish synagogues, they have to pay dues.
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