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I have read The Jewish Week on and off for the past generation with a tinge of bewilderment and amazement as every now and then your paper would publish an article or op-ed promoting or condoning intermarriage. But I have never seen one issue that goes out of its way to do so as has […]

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Amichai Lau-Lavie is understandably concerned about the potential negative repercussions of his gutsy innovation … and many critics will likely amplify these concerns (“Maverick Rabbi Breaks Ranks Over Intermarriage,” June 16). But what he and others working on solutions to a manifest and existential challenge to American Jewry are not guilty of, is the sin […]

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Avram Mlotek’s Opinion piece, “Time To Rethink Our Resistance To Intermarriage” (June 16), has sparked many readers to contemplate how Jewish communities treat those who intermarry. The vast majority of the halachic Jewish community not only discourages intermarriage, but scorns and shuns those who do, citing the existential threat intermarriage poses to the Jewish people. […]

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