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June 2004
Marrying
outside the Tribe – a growing trend
By Shelley Leveson and Cecily Ruttenberg
A friend that is affiliated with a reform synagogue recently joined a havurah in the Santa Cruz area. After a few gatherings, she discovered that only one of the four families consisted of both a Jewish husband and wife. “It was a bit surprising,” she said.
Surprising, modern, fact-of-life, embracing, sad, disappointing, disgraceful—all these words have been applied to the growing trend towards intermarriage within the local and national Jewish communities.
However one chooses to look at it, the facts are undeniable. Forty-seven percent of Jews that married after 1996 have a non-Jewish partner, according to the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS). By contrast, only 13 percent of Jews who married before 1970 intermarried. Among all married Jews living in the U.S. today, 31 percent are in intermarriages. And the figure is significantly higher here in the West, where 42 percent of married Jews have a non-Jewish partner.
Federation board votes for bold restructuring
Jewish Community News, the Council of Jewish Education and the Jewish Community Relations Council will no longer be committees of Federation
By Cecily Ruttenberg
In an effort to return to its core mission of raising money for local and overseas Jewish communities, the Jewish Federation of Greater San Jose Board of Directors voted on Tuesday, May 18, to radically restructure the Federation by relinquishing control of three programs — the Jewish Community News (JCN), the Council on Jewish Education (CJE) and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC).
In approving the plan, board members emphasized that Federation is seeking the community’s help to transition JCN, CJE, and JCRC into independent agencies. Federation is also working with community partners to incorporate these functions.
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