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- Title
Jewish Religious Intermarriage in Canada.
- Authors
Brym, Robert; Lenton, Rhonda
- Abstract
Drawing on secondary literature, this paper first identifies trends in Jewish religious intermarriage in Canada--including variation over time, gender, age and community size. It then critically examines results from the 2018 Survey of Jews in Canada to explore factors associated with intermarriage. Binary logistic regression demonstrates that intermarriage is significantly and independently associated with residing in cities other than Montreal and Toronto, relative youth, male gender, having little Jewish secondary socialization outside the family and having both parents born in Canada. The statistically positive effect of having intermarried parents on children's likelihood of intermarriage falls if children attend full-time Jewish school and summer camp with Jewish content. The effect disappears if at least one parent is an immigrant. These findings imply that the rising rate of intermarriage can be significantly mitigated if the Jewish community finds the means to increase the proportion of children who undergo intensive Jewish secondary socialization and the proportion of immigrants in the Jewish community. The paper concludes by discussing policies that could facilitate this outcome.
- Subjects
CANADA; MONTREAL (Quebec); INTERMARRIAGE; JEWISH communities; JEWISH day schools; SCHOOL camps; CAMPS; LOGISTIC regression analysis
- Publication
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes, 2020, Vol 30, p67
- ISSN
1198-3493
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25071/1916-0925.40184