Of nearly 250 Jewish marriages performed here during 1963, 16 per cent were mixed marriages, a survey conducted here by Rabbi Moses Zinguerevitch disclosed today. About one-third of these mixed marriages, the rabbi said, were entered by Jews from the Ashkenazic community, the remainder by Sephardim. Most of the mixed marriages, he declared, end in separation.
Mixed marriages here are always performed only by civil authorities. No rabbi in this country will perform a ceremony in which a Jew marries a non-Jew.
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