Press on 2005 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study
In November 2006, Brandeis University's Steinhardt Social Research Institute released the 2005 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study, which revealed that 60 percent of interfaith households in the area were raising their children Jewish--nearly double the rate reported in the 1995 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study.
InterfaithFamily.com, which is based in Newton, Mass., was featured prominently in numerous stories on this extraordinary news. A complete list of press mentions of the survey follows:
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Jewish Population in Region Rises, by Michael Paulson (Boston Globe, Nov. 10, 2006)
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Investment in Outreach Is Paying Dividends in Boston, Study Suggests, by Sue Fishkoff (JTA, Nov. 10, 2006)*
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Boston Study Shows 60% of Interfaith Kids Raised Jewish, by Nathaniel Popper (The Forward, Nov. 17, 2006)
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Outreach Miracle? by Stewart Ain (The Jewish Week, Nov. 17, 2006) - New York
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Boston Survey Shows Leaps in Jewish Population, by Bette Keva (The Jewish Journal Boston North, Nov. 17, 2006)
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Boston Outreach May Hold Lessons for Pittsburgh, by Susan Jacobs (The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh, Nov. 23, 2006)
Op-eds on the news:
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Engaging the Intermarried, by Ed Case and Kathy Kahn (The Forward, Nov. 17, 2006)
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Boston's Good News on Intermarriage, by Leonard Saxe, Charles Kadushin and Benjamin Phillips (The Jewish Week, Nov. 17, 2006) - New York
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Reaping the Dividends, editorial (Jewish Exponent, Nov. 22, 2006) - Philadelphia
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Intermarriage Tipping Point Long Past, But Institutions Must Now Catch Up, by Paul Golin (JTA, Nov. 22, 2006)
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View from America: What Price Outreach?, by Jonathan Tobin (The Jerusalem Post, Dec. 2, 2006)
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Boston's Jewish Outreach Succeeds with a 1 Percent Investment, by Edmund Case and Kathy Kahn (American Jewish World, Dec. 8, 2006) - Minneapolis, Minn.
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Read Boston Study on Intermarriage with Caution, by Steven M. Cohen, Jack Ukeles and Ron Miller (The Forward, Dec. 8, 2006)
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Interfaith Lessons, editorial (Atlanta Jewish Times, Dec. 15, 2006)
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Are We More Than Just a Category? by Bethanie Horowitz (The Forward, Dec. 15, 2006)
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Cautious About Outreach Impact, by Samuel C. Klagsbrun (The Jewish Week, Dec. 22, 2006) - New York
Letters to the editor:
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Boston Study Question Did Not Bias Results, by Leonard Saxe, Charles Kadushin and Benjamin Phillips (The Forward, Dec. 15, 2006) (responding to Read Boston Study on Intermarriage with Caution)
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Never Enough, by Micah Sachs (The Jewish Week, Dec. 22, 2006) (responding to Outreach Miracle?) - New York
*The JTA story was also reprinted in the following publications:
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The Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago (Nov. 12, 2006)
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The Connecticut Jewish Ledger (Nov. 15, 2006)
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New Jersey Jewish News (Nov. 16, 2006)
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j., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California (Nov. 17, 2006)
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Jewish Exponent (Nov. 22, 2006) - Philadelphia
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Jewish Voice and Herald (Nov. 24, 2006) - Rhode Island
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Baltimore Jewish Times (Dec. 27, 2006)
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