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4.11.2015. 10:18
Židovska djeca iz mješovitih brakova
 

My Jewish kids are the product of intermarriage, and other reasons for hope


By Julie Wiener, October 22, 2015 



 JTA: A group of American Birthright Israel participants visiting the Dead Sea, Israel, July 10, 2015. (Matt Hechter/Flash90)


Jewish leaders have long warned of the bleak Jewish futures in store for children of intermarriage. But these prognostications were based largely on information from more than a decade ago, when intermarriage was far less common and far less accepted by American Jews than it is today.
The data deficit was filled in 2013 with the release of the Pew study, and even more so this week with the publication of Brandeis University’s groundbreaking “Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Touchpoints and Trajectories of Jewish Engagement.”


Židovski lideri su dugo upozoravali na "crnu budućnost" u pogledu djece iz mješovitih brakova-no te su prognoze bile bazitrane na podacima od prije desetak godina kada su mješoviti brakovi bili rjeđi i mnaje prihvaćeni od američkih Židova nego što su danas. Taj deficit u podacima je popunjen 1913 sa "Pew studijom" a još više ovaj tjedan sa publikacijom sa Brandeis univerziteta “Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Touchpoints and Trajectories of Jewish Engagement". 


Nova studija je bazirana na anketi više od 2.500 odrasle djece iz mješovitih brakova ( iz baze Birthright učesnika u Izraelu) koja je prvi puta ispitivala "mlade odrasle" sa samo jednim židovskim roditeljem o njihovom židovskom "formiranju" i pogledima. To je važno ispitivanje jer se prepostavlja da je polovina  Amerikanaca koji se identificiraju kao "Židovi" zapravo iz mješovitih brakova, što s emože smatrati i dobrim i kao lošim znakom.





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Children of intermarriage receive less Jewish education than their peers with two Jewish parents and are less likely than such peers to identify as Jewish or believe it important to marry a Jew. But they are often profoundly influenced by Jewish programming in college and beyond, such as Birthright trips to Israel, Judaic studies courses and campus activities sponsored by Hillel and Chabad...


...What I find most refreshing about the study is that it makes no pronouncements for or against intermarriage (and, incidentally, it finds that only a third of millennials with two Jewish parents believe it’s important to marry a Jew, so efforts to stop intermarriage seem rather quixotic).


Rather, it suggests ways that more children of intermarriage and their families might be drawn into deeper engagement with the tribe, suggesting more investment in programs for college students and young adults, along with alternative options for bar-bat mitzvah, a rite of passage that the study found many children of intermarriage want, yet feel is inaccessible.