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Are Jews losing
political edge?
JERUSALEM, (J T A) —
American Jews are losing their
political strength due to a declining
Jewish population and a mass
exodus from the urban northeast
to smaller cities and suburbs
around the country, according to
Herbert Bienstock, a senior expert
in the U S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
Bienstock spoke at the 14th
annual America-lsrael Dialogue at
Van Leer Institute here. He
explained that the Jewish
“political edge" is growing duller,
because Jews have less votes and
money to offer would-be
candidates.
The sharp decline in the Jewish
population (from 2.1 million in
New York City in 1957 to 1.2
million in 1974) coupled with a
movement among young
American Jews to find
employment in the free professions
rather than in business, plus a
Jewish migration to the suburbs,
which is abandoning the more
established Jewish religious,
cultural and social institutions, is
making the Jews slowly
“disappear” from the scene, at least
in terms of numbers and influence
they enjoyed in the past, Bienstock
said. He urged that greater efforts
be made on the educational scene
to prevent total Jewish
disappearance.
But another participant at the
dialogue reached totally different
conclusions. Prof. Fred Massarik,
of the University of California, Los
Angeles, claimed that although the
declining Jewish birthrate poses a
great threat to Jewish population
growth in the U.S., the rising rate
of intermarriage among U.S. Jews
could lead to a net gain in the
country’s Jewish population.
Massarik assailed the
widespread assumption that
American Jews are marrying
themselves out of existence.
Rather, he claimed, there is “a drift
toward Jewishness among
intermarried Jews, and a drift
away from Jewishness among in-
married Jews."
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