Jewish intermarriage

Conservative Judaism’s new line on intermarriage is a great start. What comes next is key - opinion

Belonging is not declared. It is rebuilt and demonstrated, slowly, through consistency, humility, and courage. If the movement is willing to do that work, genuine repair is possible.

JANUARY 15, 2026|ByADAM POLLACK / JTA

Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families.

Irving Berlin and his wife Ellin Mackay appear in a photograph in the late 1920s. The 1926 marriage between the wildly popular Jewish songwriter and a Catholic heiress was a media sensation.

Irving Berlin’s 1926 interfaith marriage sparked a Jewish debate that still hasn’t gone - opinion

For more than a century, interfaith marriage has functioned as a kind of Rorschach test within American Jewish life, alternately framed as an existential threat or a potential avenue for renewal.

JANUARY 3, 2026|BySCOTT D. SELIGMAN/JTA

Judaism’s Conservative movement apologizes for decades of discouraging intermarriage

The shift marks a significant change in tone for a movement that long treated intermarriage as a threat to Jewish continuity.

DECEMBER 18, 2025|ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

How do you define a 'half-Jew?' A torn yellow Star of David, worn by Jews during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.

How Nazi categories of ‘half-Jews’ and ‘quarter-Jews’ still decide who is a Jew - study

Under Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish.

DECEMBER 10, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF