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...right, of course, in stating that in Israel, as elsewhere, Orthodox Jews maintain that the child of a Jewish father and an unconverted non-Jewish mother is a Gentile. Reform Judaism, however, accepts such a child as Jewish, if he attends a Jewish religious school and takes studies leading to confirmation...
...Jewish young men." At first that meant luring immigrant kids off the streets with hot showers and 50 violin lessons. Later it meant developing the New York Pro Musica ensemble, harboring dancers from Martha Graham to Jose Limon, and attracting some of the most literate audiences in the U.S. While salvaging such once-poor Jewish boys as Bernard Baruch and Billy Rose, the 92nd Street YMHA has always refused to be parochial. In 1880, for example, it led New York Jews in raising cash for "the starving people in Ireland." Nowadays about 15% of its membership is non-Jewish. Unlike...
...Many Jewish leaders deplore the trend. Dr. Emanuel Rackman, former head of Manhattan's Orthodox Jewish divorce court, the Beth Din, urges rabbis not to perform mixed marriages, as some Reform rabbis do. (Conservative and Orthodox rabbis insist upon the conversion of the non-Jewish partner, a tactic that often drives couples to a municipal judge or a broad-minded Protestant minister.) At the golden jubilee convention of the Farband-Labor Zionist Order last month, its leaders warned against the new spirit of assimilation in U.S. Jewry, which they said was reflected "in the alarming growth of intermarriages...
Rising Tide. The league began in 1913 when some 15 members of B'nai B'rith, the Jewish service organization, gathered at the call of Chicago Lawyer Sigmund Livingston. They had concluded, as the league's charter states, that "for many years the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens have failed to meet this tendency [of antiSemitism] by any means save quiet criticism. But the tide has been rising until it calls for organized effort to stem it." Their immediate goal: "To stop, by appeals to reason and conscience, and if necessary by appeals to law, the defamation...
Shuraky pointed out that in 1950, 56% of Israel's babies were born to Westerners; by 1960, only 22% were. In the same decade, the Afro-Asian group's births soared from 32% to 60%. The non-Jewish population is now growing fastest of all, with a fantastic rate of increase of 40 per 1,000 (v. a world average of 18). Arabs and Druzes, who represent only one-tenth of Israel's 2,200,000 people, produced one-fifth of all babies born there last year...