The marital behavior of Jewish people is an affront to Progressives.
1.Central to every totalitarian instinct is the desire, the need, to destroy all tradition, history and value systems. They claim it necessary in order to provide space for the Utopia they claim they can bring forth.
To the Leftists, marriage is either obsolete, or oppression of women. “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” and all that.
And, sure enough, marriage, under Leftist indoctrination, has largely fallen by the wayside.
Except for Jewish folks.
2. So saith a recent article in the magazine Tablet.
“Today, only about half of American adults are married, compared with nearly three-quarters in the 1960s. Young Americans are choosing to delay marriage into their late 20s and early 30s: half as many under-35s were married in 2018 as were married in 1978. At the same time, “gray divorce” is on the rise as baby boomers dissolve their marriages (although millennials look likely to reverse that trend).
3. Amid this turmoil, Jewish marriage rates have proved surprisingly resilient. Surveys reveal that Jews are among the most-married religious groups in the United States, outpacing Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants. (Those statistics combine both Jews married to other Jews and married to non-Jews.) What is more, while other groups have seen precipitous declines in marriage since the middle of the last decade, the share of Jews married has remained roughly constant—
4. What is behind this trend? The data point in several directions. Almost certainly, it is linked to Jews’ socioeconomic advantages. But at the same time, it appears that Jewish religious identity and communal bonds play a role.”
The Chuppah Advantage
5. Is there anything wrong with simply living together, or having children outside of marriage? Yup….there sure is.
And Jewish folks seem, while being Liberals/Democrats, seem to be aware of it. Perhaps David Mamet was onto something special here:
"This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience."
David Mamet
Could the Bible simply be a better guide for society than Das Kapital???
1.Central to every totalitarian instinct is the desire, the need, to destroy all tradition, history and value systems. They claim it necessary in order to provide space for the Utopia they claim they can bring forth.
To the Leftists, marriage is either obsolete, or oppression of women. “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” and all that.
And, sure enough, marriage, under Leftist indoctrination, has largely fallen by the wayside.
Except for Jewish folks.
2. So saith a recent article in the magazine Tablet.
“Today, only about half of American adults are married, compared with nearly three-quarters in the 1960s. Young Americans are choosing to delay marriage into their late 20s and early 30s: half as many under-35s were married in 2018 as were married in 1978. At the same time, “gray divorce” is on the rise as baby boomers dissolve their marriages (although millennials look likely to reverse that trend).
3. Amid this turmoil, Jewish marriage rates have proved surprisingly resilient. Surveys reveal that Jews are among the most-married religious groups in the United States, outpacing Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants. (Those statistics combine both Jews married to other Jews and married to non-Jews.) What is more, while other groups have seen precipitous declines in marriage since the middle of the last decade, the share of Jews married has remained roughly constant—
4. What is behind this trend? The data point in several directions. Almost certainly, it is linked to Jews’ socioeconomic advantages. But at the same time, it appears that Jewish religious identity and communal bonds play a role.”
The Chuppah Advantage
5. Is there anything wrong with simply living together, or having children outside of marriage? Yup….there sure is.
And Jewish folks seem, while being Liberals/Democrats, seem to be aware of it. Perhaps David Mamet was onto something special here:
"This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience."
David Mamet
Could the Bible simply be a better guide for society than Das Kapital???
