{"id":511,"date":"2011-03-16T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/latest-non-threat-to-jewish-survival-israeli-intermarriage.html"},"modified":"2011-03-16T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:31:00","slug":"latest-non-threat-to-jewish-survival-israeli-intermarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/latest-non-threat-to-jewish-survival-israeli-intermarriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Latest (Non-)Threat To Jewish Survival…Israeli Intermarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As our forefathers and foremothers once taught us, there is no sin more unbearable than intermarriage.\u00a0 Just the word is supposed to make us shudder with fear!\u00a0 What will become of the Jewish people?\u00a0 We\u2019re doomed, I tell you, DOOMED!<\/p>\n

You would think that by 2011 this trope would have played itself out.\u00a0 And you would think that Israelis, of all folks, would have the least reason for concern.\u00a0 After all, how many Jews intermarry there?<\/p>\n

But concern for Israeli intermarriages is on the rise.\u00a0 Exhibit \u201cA\u201d is the reaction of nationalist Rabbi<\/a> Yisrael Rosen to Labor MK Einat Wilf\u2019s marriage to a non-Jewish German.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hereby call for a boycott of all of her public activities\u2026as a clear negative character, being married to a German who is not Jewish (and I believe hasn\u2019t acquired citizenship either),\u201d the rabbi wrote in an article published in a Shabbat leaflet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis call is not religious (there are more serious offenses) or nationalistic (there are greater \u2018national traitors\u2019 than her), or even social (there are MKs who present a poorer personal example). I just can\u2019t comprehend having an MK with a mixed marriage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me there used to be some law about this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Section 1<\/p>\n

Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood are forbidden. Marriages concluded in defiance of this law are void, even if, for the purpose of evading this law, they were concluded abroad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry, wrong country and century.<\/p>\n

Exhibit \u201cB\u201d is the Knesset debating about assimilation<\/a> on the first of what really should be the last \u201cJewish Identity Day\u201d in Israel:<\/p>\n

Tzipi Hotovely (Likud)\u2026led the debate held on the first ever Jewish Identity Day. She claimed that the only way to prevent assimilation is through education, in which the state is not investing enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assimilation struggle reaches headlines through stories of Jewish women marrying Muslims, but it\u2019s important to remember that this phenomenon is much broader. Over 92,000 families living in Israel are of mixed race,\u201d said Hotovely. \u201cWe need programs to teach young girls in high school about Jewish identity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You really must understand, it\u2019s the mischlinge<\/a> who are the real threat to the Reich\u2026uh\u2026the Jewish identity of the state.<\/p>\n

Or something like that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As our forefathers and foremothers once taught us, there is no sin more unbearable than intermarriage.\u00a0 Just the word is supposed to make us shudder with fear!\u00a0 What will become of the Jewish people?\u00a0 We\u2019re doomed, I tell you, DOOMED! 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