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February 3, 2026, 3:36 pm
Chronicle poll results: Intermarriage
We asked our readers if intermarriage is a threat to Jewish continuity. Here's what they said.
By Toby Tabachnick
January 28, 2026, 11:49 am
Chronicle poll question
Is intermarriage a threat to Jewish continuity?
Love and marriage. (Credit: Hoang Dong Photo/Pixabay)
December 29, 2025, 10:31 am
Local Conservative rabbis respond to new intermarriage report
“We don’t rush change,” Schaer said, “but we don’t stop growing, either. That process is what gives our movement its energy and its hope.”
By David Rullo
At sunset by the water, Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks leads a blessing with wine in hand and tallit draped over the shoulders (Courtesy / Moti Dolgin)
August 12, 2025, 9:31 am
Third-generation Conservative rabbi resigns from movement after facing punishment for performing intermarriages
He believes interfaith weddings can be done in accordance with Jewish law.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families. (Stock photo/Burke/Triolo Productions via Getty Images)
July 2, 2025, 3:24 pm
In a first for Conservative Judaism, synagogue allows clergy to participate in interfaith weddings
The policy change at Adath Jeshurun Congregation, a large synagogue in suburban Minneapolis, goes against rules set by the Conservative movement.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
June 26, 2024, 1:21 pm
The anguished dilemma of a Reform rabbi
Reform Judaism was founded to stem the tide of assimilation and to form a Judaism guided by Jewish law without always being beholden to it.
By Rabbi Mark Cohn
(Photo by Jason Corey, courtesy of flickr.com)
February 7, 2024, 10:31 am
Why the Conservative movement is changing our approach to interfaith marriage
It’s no wonder that our Conservative/Masorti movement is changing how we engage intermarrying and intermarried couples and families.
By Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal
(Photo by coldsnowstorm/ E+/ Getty Images Plus)
March 6, 2023, 6:31 pm
Local rabbis wrestle with proposed changes for new clergy
Questions about educational requirements and Jewish partners leave spiritual leaders seeking greater dialogue about Jewish future
By Adam Reinherz
The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies recently announced it was cutting its yearlong requirement of study in Israel down to a summer visit. Photo by David Rullo.
March 1, 2023, 11:20 am
Are American rabbis giving in to assimilation?
It thus becomes morally offensive for a rabbinical program to demand that its ordainees marry Jews or live in an exclusively Jewish household.
By Arthur Green
Hebrew College in Boston sold its building in Newton Centre. (Courtesy of Hebrew College via JTA)
February 1, 2023, 10:19 am
Hebrew College will now admit rabbinical students whose partners are not Jewish
The decision comes as rabbinical schools compete over a shrinking pool of applicants and after decades of rising rates of intermarriage among American Jews.
By Philissa Cramer
Rabbi Harold Kravitz, president of the Rabbinical Assembly, has called for a respectful dialogue about intermarriage among the 1,700 Conservative rabbis that are members of the association. (Photo courtesy of the Rabbinical Assembly via the Forward)
January 18, 2023, 12:16 pm
‘Misinformed’ intermarriage rumors distress some Conservative rabbis
Some worry that the rules on presiding over intermarriages are about to change
By Arno Rosenfeld
(Photo by Trung Nguyen via Pexels)
January 18, 2023, 9:17 am
Allowing rabbis to officiate intermarriages will alienate the Conservative movement from its own members
It is impossible to fathom how Conservative Judaism can retain its members if it allows its clergy to officiate intermarriages
By Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
Students from University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne University on a 2018 Birthright trip. Future trips may include smaller numbers of students after Birthright Israel announced it would be cutting funding for the program. (Photo courtesy of Hillel Jewish University Center)
December 22, 2020, 10:21 am
Is there something wrong with a program that encourages in-marriage?
Jewish families are the bedrock upon which identity is forged.
By Jonathan S. Tobin
Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90
October 25, 2018, 4:16 pm
Conservative rabbis can now attend intermarriages
Conservative rabbis still may not officiate in any way at marriages between a Jew and a non-Jew.
By Ben Sales JTA
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