Some 57 percent of Jewish women marry non-Jews, and only 6 percent of their children accept their mother's faith.

But now, intermarriage is often the result of living in an open society... If our children end up marrying non-Jews, we should not reject them.

But in the early 20th century, even in most Germanic regions of central Europe there were still only a mere 5% of Jews marrying non-Jews.

The study's most dramatic finding was that more than half the Jews getting married since 1985 were marrying non-Jews.

This law made it illegal for Jews to marry non-Jews.

Some members wanted to include support of Jewish charities, but others had married non-Jews and wanted "Jewish" replaced with "religious."

But a primary cause of the percentage decline is the inclination of half the nubile generation to marry non-Jews.

In a radical change from just a generation ago, American Jews today are as likely to marry non-Jews as Jews.

Jewish leaders have voiced growing concern in recent years over the high rate at which Jews marry non-Jews.

As long as America remains an open society, accepting diversity, Jews will marry non-Jews.