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?