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What is the Jewish Outreach Institute's interest in helping
intermarried families?
The Jewish Outreach Institute seeks to insure Jewish continuity.
By providing an inclusive Jewish community, JOI believes
that children of interfaith families will develop a Jewish
identity. Instead of excluding interfaith families from
the Jewish community, JOI believes that it is necessary
to welcome them and educate them about Judaism.
The past decades have witnessed the growing realization
on the part of key institutions of the organized Jewish
community that their long-term vitality depends (in no
small measure) on how effectively they respond to the
forces of assimilation of American Jewry. Most notable
among those forces are intermarriage and disconnectedness
from Jewish communal institutions. Both those forces have
challenged the organized Jewish community to develop strategies
of outreach that can engage and connect those segments
of the American Jewish population who are currently not
at all or only minimally involved in Jewish life. |
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