Some ten to twelve and a half percent of all Jews marrying in Britain take non-Jewish mates, Dr. I. W. Slotki, a demographic scholar, asserted today in an article in the Manchester Guardian. He based his figures on applications for marriage licenses, discussions with rabbinical authorities and social workers. This figure does not include marriages solemnized in civil services and in Liberal and Reform synagogues, he stressed.
Dr. Slotki quotes one well informed social worker as estimating that there is hardly a Jewish family in Britain in which a near or distant relative has not married out of the Jewish faith. Citing other authoritative sources, including rabbis, he expresses the opinion that intermarriage is on the increase in Britain.
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