Why only the Orthodox can avoid intermarriage.(Jews in the United States)(Statistical Data...

One of the dominant topics of discussion in American Jewish circles in recent years was the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, its findings and implications. Indeed, few surveys of this nature can have been as analyzed, quoted, and argued over as this ground-breaking study. One figure was quoted so often in connection with the survey that it practically became synonymous with it. That figure, of course, was "52 percent."

There is hardly any need to elaborate; "52 percent," according to the survey, was the rate at which Jews in the United States were marrying non-J