A still from the Israeli government's advertising campaign reads: "Assimilating and getting lost to us."
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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A still from the Israeli government's advertising campaign reads: "Assimilating and getting lost to us."
that’s the way it has always been.
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.”
That’s NOT a joke.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL thats not a joke.
I wonder what Adolph Schickelgruber would think about this?
ROFL!
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.
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.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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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.
They lost me at “inform on”
Are they assuming that a Jew marrying someone from another faith would be forced to leave Judaism? Maybe if they marry a Muslim.
“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.
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.
FUNNY ROFL
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