British Columbia’s Jewish community has the highest rate of intermarriage in Canada, according to Rabbi David C. Kogen, director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at the local university. There were 28 intermarriages in British Columbia in 1949 as compared with 43 marriages in which both bride and groom were Jewish, he reported today.
Rabbi Kogen also reported, in supporting his argument that intermarriages “usually don’t work out,” that in a study of divorces granted in Vancouver from the beginning of 1948 to the middle of 1951, he had discovered that in one year, “five out of five divorces in which Jews were involved dissolved intermarriages.”
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