The traditionally low Jewish divorce rate has been increasing to a point where it has almost caught up with the national average, it was reported here today by Rabbi Bernard Mandelbaum, director of the Religio-Psychiatric Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. “From a relatively low rate of divorce of one in 10 marriages, the rate is nearing the one out of four national divorce statistic, ” Rabbi Mandelbaum declared.
Rabbi Mandelbaum, together with Dr. Sydney Furst, psychiatrist of the Seminary’s Marriage Counseling Bureau, reported on the first 18 months of operation of the bureau. The bureau, which was conceived as a cooperative effort drawing upon the professional skills of rabbis, psychiatrists and marriage counselors, began operations on June 1, 1959.
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