Increased efforts are being made to find Jewish parents willing to adopt children born out of wedlock to Jewish women and Negro Christian men, it was reported here by the Commission on Synagogue Relations of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. The Commission is working on this project with the Louise Wise Services, an agency which serves predominantly unwed Jewish mothers. Under Jewish law, a child born to a Jewish mother is Jewish, regardless of the father’s religion.
According to Mrs. Mignon Krause, a spokesman for the Louise Wise Services, the agency has placed 117 inter-racial Jewish children for adoption in the last three and a half years. Of these, she said, 11 had been placed with white couples — five of whom were Jewish and six Christian. “We will not, ” she said, “delay or deny adoption to a child for religious reasons alone.”
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