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Israel gets tough on intermarriage (Campaign to inform on friends/family who may be intermarrying!)
The National ^ | 9-7-09 | Jonathan Cook

Posted on 09/07/2009 5:12:59 PM PDT by blueglass

The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.

The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as “scare tactics”, are designed to stop assimilation through intermarriage among young diaspora Jews by encouraging them to move to Israel.

The campaign, which cost US$800,000 (Dh2.9 million), was created in response to reports that half of all Jews outside Israel marry non-Jews. It is just one of several initiatives by the

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: intermarriage; israel; jews; marriage; nonjews

A still from the Israeli government's advertising campaign reads: "Assimilating and getting lost to us."

1 posted on 09/07/2009 5:12:59 PM PDT by blueglass
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To: blueglass

that’s the way it has always been.


2 posted on 09/07/2009 5:14:53 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: rovenstinez

Not really related, but an excuse to post my favorite Jewish mother joke:

A Jewish boy comes home from school and tells his mother he’s been given a part in the school play. “Wonderful! What part is it?” replies his mother.

The boy says, “I play the part of the Jewish husband.” The mother scowls “That’s terrible. Go back and tell the teacher you want a speaking part.”


3 posted on 09/07/2009 5:19:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

That’s NOT a joke.


4 posted on 09/07/2009 5:29:10 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: dfwgator

LOLOLOLOLOLOL thats not a joke.


5 posted on 09/07/2009 5:31:01 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: blueglass

I wonder what Adolph Schickelgruber would think about this?


6 posted on 09/07/2009 5:34:44 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: dfwgator

ROFL!


7 posted on 09/07/2009 5:38:10 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery (The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.)
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To: blueglass

Inform to whom?

Let me get this straight... some busybody will call a hotline, and they’ll call the in-love couple and try to stage an intervention? Good luck with that guilt trip. I’d tell ‘em to F off.


8 posted on 09/07/2009 6:13:33 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: blueglass

Note that this is from an Islamist publication.

Assimilation is a very real problem for Jews, but the real problem is the same one that Christians have: liberalism. Jews and Christians neglect to practice their faith, neglect to pass it on to their children, and the faith is lost.


9 posted on 09/07/2009 6:37:47 PM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: blueglass
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10 posted on 09/07/2009 6:50:58 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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Strikes me as rather silly, no one marrying outside his faith is going to have an epiphany and suddenly move to Israel. And I question whether 30% of diaspora Jews have relatives in Israel.

11 posted on 09/08/2009 5:29:26 AM PDT by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: blueglass

They lost me at “inform on”


12 posted on 09/08/2009 5:37:58 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html, http://sites.google.com/site/thevuzvuz/)
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To: blueglass

Are they assuming that a Jew marrying someone from another faith would be forced to leave Judaism? Maybe if they marry a Muslim.


13 posted on 09/08/2009 6:34:09 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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“Are they assuming that a Jew marrying someone from another faith would be forced to leave Judaism?”

Statistically, this is the case. I know many a Jewish man that has married a non-Jewish woman, and the result is that they now sit in a Methodist pew “for the children.”

Theologically, if one talked to a Chabadnick, Jews and non-Jews cannot truly get married, as there is no joining of the souls. (Opinions certainly differ in this regard.)

More conventional theologically, is the issue of the children. From the Orthodox perspective, a Jewish man who marries a non-Jewish woman (who does not convert) does not have Jewish children. (The Reform differ in this regard.)

Similarly, a Jewish woman who bears children has Jewish children, regardless of how they are raised.

Typically, the issue is resolved by the family having no religion, which, IMHO, is a disaster. Give me a Jewish Christian over an atheist Jew any day.

And Jews are hardly alone in this regard.

I don’t know the exact details, but the Roman Catholic Church has prohibitions against marrying non-Roman Catholics (or some sort of agreement to raise kids Roman
Catholic, or somesuch -— again, I don’t know the details).

Similary, most Christian denominations have prohibitions against marrying non-Christians.

Etc.


14 posted on 09/08/2009 8:08:55 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca
I have never heard of protestant Christians having any prohibitions on intermarrying; however there is the scripture about being "equally yoked" (2nd Corinthians 6:14). Take that as you will. It seems to me that serving the same G-d/Hashem is being equally yoked, but it depends on some flexibility and understanding in the couple involved.

I think that any intermarriage couples should do a "pre-nup" assessment of their future faith journey and their desires for their children. If they can't agree, then it's a bad idea.

I would have no problem marrying a Jewish woman or having my children go to synagogue. However my wife might have a problem with my messianic beliefs. These things need to be talked about before marriage.

15 posted on 09/08/2009 7:35:49 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: SevenofNine
ping
16 posted on 09/08/2009 7:53:27 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: redreno

FUNNY ROFL


17 posted on 09/08/2009 7:56:12 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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