Australian Jews have an intermarriage rate of 14.1 percent, a rise of 1.1 percent during the past five years, according to an article published in an Australian social science journal. The authors contrasted the rate with that found in the United States, which they put at more than 50 percent. They predicted that intermarriage would decrease in Australia with increased Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe and South Africa and the “re-kindling of the Jewish religion” for some of the immigrants.
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