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yergi ago

What does this all amount to? Well, American Jews have a huge outmarriage rate. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50%. Over the long run this will tend to dilute Jewish identity in the US and have them relate more to Gentiles.

Jewish religion dictates that if your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish. Just sayin'.

Joe_McCarthy ago

Yeah, Reform Judaism even counts the paternal line. But Jews are very outnumbered. A Jew will marry a Gentile and then the half Jew progeny will also probably marry a Gentile. Pretty soon the Jewish ancestry gets more and more diluted and with increasing secularization such people will be less and less likely to identify as Jews. It might take a hundred years and we'll probably never completely absorb them. Jews themselves do very much fear this trend though.