The central reason religious Jewish families have banned the weekly Jewish Journal from their homes is its anti- and non-religious agendas.
It is as Jewish as the ACLU.
If there is a distinction, ACLU cadres attend synagogue twice a year rather than once.
The Journal’s raisin d’etre is a radical left platform that embarrasses committed Jews.
Last week the chest-beating, attention-chasing editor, who hates swimming with the tide, noisily was promoting intermarriage. We renew our earlier suggestion that the religion-phobic editor convert out.
Despite his slender grasp of Jewish tradition and his tireless non-religious pose, even he must know that intermarriage – religious suicide — is anathema to all religions.
Can you think of any single act that has ripped apart more families?
History, surveys and eyewitnesses concur that intermarriage weakens the already fading religious fabric of both parties.
But the editor tells us he knows better.
The most fundamental, indisputable logic asks, whose religious values will be taught to the children?
Only someone to whom religious convictions are less significant than a peanut in a jar would promote such a balmy notion.
The editor’s supporting evidence is slightly less sturdy than a cobweb.
He cites three obscure Conservative rabbis who say they will perform intermarriages, a writer for The Atlantic who says “the future of Jewish identity is at stake,” and a wobbly survey of unknown validity from Brandeis University, not a bastion of Judaism.
The survey concludes, with a straight face, that “millennials born to intermarried parents were much more likely to have been raised Jewish than the children of intermarriages in previous generations.”
Who would not be swayed by such redoubtable evidence?
Unable to obtain data, the confident editor’s eyes roamed the Jewish globe before he flicked his convicting punch:
Intermarried couples, he guessed, “raise children who go on to practice embody its values and contribute to the Jewish community and the world. They succeed at being Jewish far, far better than any number of in-married Jewish couples who stay uncurious and uninvolved.”
He would know.