The results of a survey conducted by the Hillel Foundation at the Northwestern University among 210 Jewish undergraduate students were made public here today. They reveal that 28 percent of the boys and 17 percent of the girls answered affirmatively to the question “would you marry a non-Jew?”
Twenty-one percent of the boys and 28 percent of the girls considered themselves Zionists; 16 percent of the boys and 11 percent of the girls said they had no religious affiliation; 75 percent of the students openly identified themselves as Jews.
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