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...piece, "College Life vs. My Moral Code" that appeared in The New York Times Monday, Hack expressed disillusionment with a rooming system that allowed her brother, also an Orthodox Jew, to live at home in New Haven during all four years at the college...
...World, is more than four times as old. Many of our parents and certainly our grandparents were alive when there was no such thing as Israel. But now it is taken for granted that Israel exists. We cannot imagine a world without it. And how do the Jews of America view Israel? The answer to this question is really not clear. For what relevance does a country at least 6000 miles away have to them? What does Israel provide for the American Jew now that most of us see Israel as here to stay...
Maybe Israel is important if only because it gives the American Jew somewhere to go if times get dangerous. After all, Israel has made its mission to accept Jews from anywhere in the world if they want to come, for whatever reason. But since anti-Semitism has never threatened the Jews' place in America, most Jews do not see the security that Israel provides as its most important feature. Our parents saw Israel as a nation of pioneers; a nation whose customs and traditions served as a renewal of Judaism, as a means for Jews to reestablish their culture...
...example, let us assume 60 percent of marriages involving American Jews are to non-Jews. Then for every ten marriages involving a Jew, 6 will be between a Jew and a non-Jew, and 4 will be between two Jews. It is not hard to see that the 6 inter-marriages involve 6 Jews, while the 4 in-group marriages involve 8 Jews. Thus, in our scenario, in which a considerable majority of marriages involving American Jews are with non-Jews, 57 percent of Jews are still marrying within the religion...
...three times the number of identifiably Jewish households. There are more children under age four in mixed-marriage households than in all-Jewish ones. Only 28 percent of children in mixed-marriage households are being raised Jewish. Only one in 10 of those children will marry a Jew...