Do u think in a few generations the Ethnic Jewish division will be deleted due to frequency of inter marriages

Question

i meant division between groups: sephradic, mizrahi, ashkenzai, ethiopian.

Answer 1

Yes, especially in Israel.

Answer 2

No I still think loads of people stand by their jewish laws.

Answer 3

Hi Lene,

I absolutely believe it will.

Sincerely,

Ms. Miche ; })

Answer 4

Sure, and soon the very existence or identity of Jews will also disappear forever!

Answer 5

Depends where you talking about.  In America, there is still mostly Ashkenazim with pockets of Sephardim.  I think it's 80-20 something like that, IIRC (if I recall corectly)?  Both groups still mingle but not as much because of vast isolation by geography (US is big country.) Couple that with the vastness of the globe and people are still very much dispersed.

IIRC, In Israel it's 50-50 distribution with Ashkenazim and Mizrahim being largest groups and Sephardim being subgroup of Mizrahim and largest Sephardim group being from Morocco.

Chances are people will "blend" more in Israel first than rest of world.  The diaspora is still HUGE so it take more than couple generations for things to occur especially with constant aliyah to Israel.

You being in Israel will see it coming before I do in American diaspora.

I like the contribution of diaspora cultures to Jewish traditions.  People are trying to preserve say in Ladino language and my Anusim Sephardic traditions I bring with me I like! To have fried bunuelos at Hannukah or sweet bunuelos at Rosh Hashanah in comparison to apples dipped in honey is the difference of Ashkenaz and Sepharad traditions. That difference in this particular custom occured in middle ages when Sephardim heard of what Askenazim were doing.

To me though the traditions that come from each group are very much important to preserve it is what we lived and died for to express the sanctity and love for G-d when we were exiled.  I never want to give that up therefore will always preserve Sephardic traditions. How can I be expected to withhold and teach two or three similar traditions to my children?

To me this enhances and not detracts that each group has their particular traditions and people being people want to gravitate to what is familiar to them and to preserve.  There will always be a movement to preserve just like there will always be people that say we're all Jewish and that is the only biblical commandment that really matters anyways regarding intermarriage.  The world divides us it is counterproductive to further divide ourselves.  

Again you pose good questions Lene. thanks :)

Answer 6

In the US, there is a great deal of intermarriage between Jews and Christians.  I would say that in at least half of these marriages, the children are raised Christian.  Also, most Jews in the US are Reform Jews (unlike in Israel) who cling less and less to traditional aspects of Judaism and embrace  more secular lifestyles.

Jewish identity will become less and less visible in the US in the future I believe due to intermarriage and the lure of the all-American lifestyle.

Answer 7

I don't think it will be completely deleted. I find it funny how a lot of European looking Jews still have those typical Jewish features. Something in their face tells me they're Jewish, not all of them, but many.

Answer 8

Differences in nusach will most likely never dissapear.  This is because you are required to observe the nusach of your father (or if a woman- the nusach of your husband is the one that is considered to be the one utilised by the home).  So, as long as their are Orthodox Jews who observe the nusach of their fathers, their will be people from the various nusach's around and there is unlikely to ever be a single large melting pot.  The debate may be redirected to say would there be a single nusach in the time of the Mashiach, and there the debate is trickier.  Most Rabbonim state that  some differences will dissapear, but we will still be required to keep the customs of our parents and thus even in the time of mashiach there will be different nusachs!