Word: dershowitz
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...article in the Crimson (April 28), Professor Dershowitz presented statistics claiming that the current intermarriage rate is between 53 percent and 58 percent. Because there is so much intermarriage, he proclaims that "Jews must become more welcoming of anyone who wants to be part of our heritage." I'd like to present some statistics from September 19, 1996's The Jerusalem Report which more accurately portray the current inter-marriage situation...
...contrast to Dershowitz's claim, these non-Jewish spouses clearly have no interest in themselves becoming part of the Jewish heritage, or making their children a part of this heritage. Intermarriage does lead to assimilation and a decrease in the Jewish population. How can Dershowitz dare ask Jews to welcome those who are contributing, no matter how unintentionally, to their destruction...
...matter how Dershowitz tries to spin the facts, intermarriage will destroy the Jewish community, because somewhere along the line, whether in the first generation or the third, a child who should have been Jewish will not be. The more Jews "embrace intermarriage," the faster the rate of their demise will...
There is a solution to the intermarriage problem, and it's not the easy way out Dershowitz is looking for. It involves making Jews value their Jewish identity so much that they cannot even fathom the possibility of not marrying someone Jewish, that the prospect of their children being raised in a half-Jewish environment terrifies them. Jews should believe with all their heart that it's wrong NOT make the religion of a prospective spouse a crucial determining factor. Tammy A. Hepps...
Abrams' conclusion that Jews should unite with Evangelical Christians to chip at the wall between church and state seems as contestable as Dershowitz's pro-secularism. But the issue of whether to respond to intermarriage by widening "outreach" to Gentiles or narrowing more closely on faith fuels a simmering debate within Judaism's major branches. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the pre-eminent voice of America's liberal Reform movement, detects "a degree of [religious] involvement that far transcends anything we've seen before." Yet it was Reform that in 1983 felt it necessary to assert that Jewish lineage, which traditionally passes...