Such drastic action as public condemnation of Jews who marry outside the faith was proposed at an Orthodox-sponsored conference as a means of deterring such intermarriages.
The proposal was offered at the 12th annual conference of the Council of Traditional Synagogues of Greater Chicago. Rabbi Moses Meschel off said one form the condemnation could take would be refuse to “extend facilities of the synagogue or its membership for death, marriage and other occasions” in the lives of intermarried couples. He compared the proposal with Bar and Bas Mitzvah which “are helping to save our children for Judaism” and recital of the Kaddish which “has brought many men back to the synagogues.”
Members of a panel on “Assimilation through Marriage” agreed that intensive Jewish education was necessary to prevent such intermarriage. Rabbi C. David Regensberg, presiding judge of the Rabbinical Court of the Chicago Rabbinical Council proposed that the sum of $1,000,000 be raised in Chicago for Jewish education on all levels.
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