Jewish intermarriage

Conservative Judaism’s new line on intermarriage is a great start. What comes next is key - opinion

Belonging is not declared. It is rebuilt and demonstrated, slowly, through consistency, humility, and courage. If the movement is willing to do that work, genuine repair is possible.

JANUARY 15, 2026|ByADAM POLLACK / JTA

Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families.

Irving Berlin and his wife Ellin Mackay appear in a photograph in the late 1920s. The 1926 marriage between the wildly popular Jewish songwriter and a Catholic heiress was a media sensation.

Irving Berlin’s 1926 interfaith marriage sparked a Jewish debate that still hasn’t gone - opinion

For more than a century, interfaith marriage has functioned as a kind of Rorschach test within American Jewish life, alternately framed as an existential threat or a potential avenue for renewal.

JANUARY 3, 2026|BySCOTT D. SELIGMAN/JTA

Judaism’s Conservative movement apologizes for decades of discouraging intermarriage

The shift marks a significant change in tone for a movement that long treated intermarriage as a threat to Jewish continuity.

DECEMBER 18, 2025|ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

How do you define a 'half-Jew?' A torn yellow Star of David, worn by Jews during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.

How Nazi categories of ‘half-Jews’ and ‘quarter-Jews’ still decide who is a Jew - study

Under Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish.

DECEMBER 10, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

KKL-JNF chair: Intermarriage, antisemitism ‘a catastrophe’ for Diaspora

Daniel Atar said that high rates of intermarriage in North America represented a severe threat to the Jewish people.

MARCH 12, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON

DANIEL ATAR: The Jewish link to the environment goes back to the holy roots of the Torah

Sexual harassment claims against top sociologist may shift Jewish research

Cohen’s role as organized Jewry’s top sociologist is bound to diminish. Last week, the UJA-Federation of New York, the country’s largest federation, announced it would no longer work with him.

AUGUST 5, 2018ByBEN SALES/JTA

Michael Chabon attacks Jewish inmarriage, Israeli occupation in speech

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author delivered spoke about his atheism, Israel's occupation and Jewish inmarriage.

MAY 27, 2018ByBEN SALES/JTA

Civil marriage in Eilat to be proposed in forthcoming legislation

The bill would allow civil marriages to place in Eilat, but is facing opposition from all sides.

MAY 23, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON

A bride and groom kiss under the chuppah at their wedding

Observation: 'But she's not Jewish'

How is it that highly educated Jews in the 21st century still advocate for endogamy?

JANUARY 18, 2018ByBRIAN BLUM

A COUPLE looks at each other while waiting to get married at Havana’s Beth Shalom synagogue in 2007

No, Chelsea Clinton did not just compare her Jewish husband to a Satanist

Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday afternoon reproached a Twitter commenter who accused her of being a Satanist by proudly proclaiming that she is married to … a Jew.

JANUARY 4, 2018ByJTA