[Ynet] Dr. Adam Ferziger, an expert in the study of modern Jewish denominations, says that due to assimilation, in the future the absolute majority of American Jewry will not be defined as Jews according to Halacha.
The person responsible for this statement was not surprised by Chelsea Clinton's marriage to the Jewish Marc Mezvinsky, or by the blooming relationship between Yair Netanyahu and the Norwegian Sandra Leikanger. Dr. Adam Ferziger -- an expert in the study of modern Jewish denominations, and a senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University's Department of Jewish History -- led an international research group which convened in Oxford in early 2013 to study Jewish theology in the 20tyh century.
Demographic shifts and 'assimilation' are not simply a reality [or cultural threat] in America.
"Milan Kunders once defined a small nation as "one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear, and it knows it."
Krauthammer, Things That Matter, Essay: Zionism and the Fate of the Jews, pages 258-273. |