Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Jews assimilating away

In America, the number of Jews slipping away is staggering. Nearly 50% of all Jewish youth in this country are born to mixed-faith parents. If this keeps up there won't be much left of us in a few generations.

Ha'aretz is reporting (admittedly from the liberal perspective) how Jews on American college campuses overwhelmingly are willing to intermarry. Here are a few quotes from the article:

Hillel, The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life says Arauju's story is typical of many of the millennials, as her age group is known in the the United States. A recent study commissioned by Hillel among American Jewish college students revealed a complex picture: Students are prouder of their Judaism than ever before and want to preserve their Jewish identity, but they find nothing wrong with intermarriage.

Arauju was in Israel last week with a group of students who advocate for Israel on their campuses. Another group member, Romina Ruiz, 20, from Miami, is the daughter of a non-Jewish Cuban father and a Sephardic Jewish mother.

"Thirty percent of kids I go to school with are Jewish, but for most of them it doesn't mean anything," she says. "Some Jews head Palestinian rights groups, and when I ask them how that jives with their background, they say they were only born Jewish by chance."

This is a topic I try to stay away from, but this report bothered me. Fortunately, the Orthodox are doing their part, but the rest are indeed fading away. Also on the bright side, this means the politically conservative Orthodox Jews will make the Jewish voting bloc much more Republican in the years to come.

In Israel it's the same way regarding birth rates. The secular are not reproducing at all, while the religious are reproducing abundently. Perhaps someday the world's Jews will all Madzionists, eh?

14 comments:

nanc said...

KUHNKAT - that is none of our business!!! geez - why didn't you just ask if they were at least practicing? it would be great to hear of another babyz on the way - perhaps a boyz this time, because having two girls myself, wouldn't wish that on anyone - ha! and that's only because they turn into women...

jan v - they say we are what we eat, hear, see and react to - oh, nevermind - secularists make me want to hurl too!!!

p.s. israel has cut ties with pat robertson over his sharon comments - this the first i've heard on fox news. must now go check it out.

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Mad Zionist said...

Kuhnkat,

;)

nanc said...

stop that right now madze! for crying out loud, btw, what on earth does that mean?

Mad Zionist said...

Kuhnkat,

Who the hell is Carol B, and what's this dress deal of yours? Color me confused.

nanc said...

carol_bullshipper is one of the resident moonbats at autonomist - she is constantly implying that kuhnkat is well...um...how shall i say this?...A HOMO!

she flirts with rocco and i've asked mrs. dipippo to expel her or ugly up rocco's photo so she'll leave her alone. she gives most of her attention to our very own kuhnkat - i think she's after him...if you - wink - know what i mean. we've had the great pleasure of tearing her apart on a number of occasions.

would you like for us to invite her over sometime, madze? at least she is not vile like the one's who come here. just give me the word and i'll lure her over. just remember, this woman speaks with gigantic forked tongue.

nanc said...

correction: "...so she'll leave HIM alone."

Mad Zionist said...

Nanc, I see nothing wrong with flirtatious trolls (shhhh the wife may be listening). Of course, if they become a Dana/Bruce they will find their posts missing, but if they are civil as you say then I welcome it.

nanc said...

i'll throw out the bait next time i catch her bloviating!

nanc said...

p.s. madze - she is sneaky civil - it is sometimes what she DOESN'T say...we women know these things...yes we do - and you tell mamaz not to worry.

Mad Zionist said...

Sneaky evil? Flirts with the host? Has a gigantic tongue? Nanc, go ahead and bring her on by!

;)MZ

nanc said...

tell you what: i'll let you know when she's in her prime - and i don't mean the good prime - over at autonomist and i'll come and get you and you can go invite her - she's been e-mailing kuhnkat! i do not want or need mrs. z angry at me.

btw - did you see that rocco was invited to an enormous cpac event as a blogger? have you given congrats? where are your manners?