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Yes, Something Can Be Done: A "Purple" Solution to Intermarriage
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The authors advocates warmly receiving intermarried families into Jewish families and communities, rather than stressing norms that privilege in-marriage, and works to dispel perceptions that Jewish groups or leaders harbor negative attitudes toward the intermarried or resist their active participation in Jewish life.Abstract:
By contrast, the welcoming school not only sees large-scale intermarriage as inevitable and unstoppable but advocates warmly receiving intermarried families into Jewish families and communities. Rather than stressing norms that privilege in-marriage, it works to dispel perceptions that Jewish groups or leaders harbor negative attitudes toward the intermarried or resist their active participation in Jewish life.read more
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The Conflict of Authenticities in Intermarriage and Conversion
TL;DR: The authors analyzes some of the major differences that emerge in the way that authenticity has been conceptualized and defined in different contexts and groups, and suggests a more dynamic model of Jewish authenticity in which the tension between these two elements is negotiated and manifested through various forms of recognition.