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Discussion of the intermarriage problem, in Australia and New Zealand, where one partner professes a religion other than Judaism. There is a widespread belief that a high rate of Jewish intermarriage in a given locality leads to the disappearance of the Jewish community there. In smaller communities, the smaller the proportion that Jews constitute of the total population in a given locality, the larger the intermarriage rate becomes. Jews are well aware of the fact that dispersal of Jewish families over a rural or urban area increases the likelihood of intermarriage. This booklet discusses many of these issues in Australia and New Zealand seeking solutions.
Miraculously the Jewish nation has survived many of these travesties and prospered. There are 13 million Jews in the world, one-fifth of 1 percent of the world's population. Yet 20 percent of Nobel Prize winners are Jewish, a staggering hundredfold surplus of renown and genius. This is similarly true for a myriad of other "every-ones" -- the household names in music, literature, mathematics, physics, finance, industry, design, comedy, film and, as the doors opened, even politics. The past centuries of Jewish emancipation and achievement -- an unrelenting history of persecution, intermarriage, forced conversions, Holocaust, etc... has strengthened the Jewish nation. |
