Reaching Out to Intermarried Families: The Bay Area Experience

Publication Date: January 1990

Publisher: Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)

Author(s): Melvin B. Mogulof

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Continuity; Jewish Identification; Intermarriage

Type: Report

Coverage: California

Abstract:

Three outreach programs in the San Francisco area —two held under Reform Jewish auspices and one sponsored by the Jewish Community Center—have demonstrated that intermarried families can be reached by outreach efforts of the Jewish community. These efforts have various components that require different levels of commitment and target separately members of conversionary and interfaith families. Long-term follow-up data are needed on the Jewish identification of children of interfaith and conversionary families.