The article below was written by an Arab ! Read and cry!
The article states that 61 % of American Jews who have married since 2010, married out of the faith! An additional 7% are living with a non-Jewish partner. The Pew Research Center in 2013 has the rate at 72%. The Bnei-Brith has a rate as high as 85%!
The Satmar Rebbi, R' Yoel Teitelbaum z"l predicted in 1956 that Israel's assimilation rate would be over 90% and that in 20 years hence there wouldn't be any Chareidie Moisdois in Israel to talk about. The Rebbe reiterated this in 1967.
Thank G-D he was so wrong in all respects, as the assimilation rate in Israel according to Yad Le'Achim is less than 1.5% and they consider this an epidemic, and Chareidei Population has doubled in less than 10 years, and there are more Torah Institutions in Israel than anywhere in the world!
For Americans, there is a good chance that if you don't make Aliyah, your grandchildren will be goyim! You heard it here first!
written by: Samira Mehta
More than 10 years ago, I attended a college friend’s wedding in New York City.
My friend is Muslim, and her husband Jewish. They were married under a Jewish wedding canopy made from the groom’s bar mitzvah prayer shawl – which, his mother announced to the assembled guests, had been made in India, the bride’s parents’ country of origin. The bride wore a red wedding sari. The groom’s mother read and explained the seven blessings of a Jewish wedding; the bride’s mother read from the Quran and then provided an English translation.
The bride and groom sipped from the same cup of wine, as one does at a Jewish wedding. But knowing that I was writing about her wedding for my book on interfaith marriages, the bride pulled me aside in between the ceremony and the photos. They had replaced the traditional wine with white grape juice, she told me – nonalcoholic in deference to the fact that she is Muslim; white out of fear of staining the wedding finery before the photos.
My friend’s interfaith wedding might seem unusual, but it is part of the American Jewish normal. Approximately 42% of married Jews have a spouse who is not Jewish. Among American Jews who have gotten married since 2010, that percentage rises to 61%.
Many advocates for interfaith families prefer not to call these marriages between Jews and “non-Jews,” because that term defines people by what they are not – erasing their own vibrant religious and cultural heritage. There is great diversity in whom Jews marry. Most spouses come from Christian backgrounds, given the demographics of the United States, but Christianity itself is very diverse. Others marry Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists or people from any number of other religious traditions.
