More than 90 percent of mixed marriages have turned out to be unsuccessful, Rabbi Israel Tabak, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, said today in opening a two-day conference of the Council, which represents some 400 American-trained Orthodox rabbis.
Declaring that intermarriage “tends to weaken the stamina of American population,” Dr. Tabak called upon the Jows of America “to be alert and on guard against its spread.” He emphasized that not only are intermarriages against the most hallowed principles of the Jewish faith, but they “undermine the stability of the home, increase the number of unhappy marriages, and bring children into the world with a rift in their souls which can never be healed.”
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