You can see the Israeli government-paid ad that says that intermarried Jews in the United States are "lost" here. Look at the poor Feldman’s and Fine’s and Jacobs’s pictured in the ads, most of them young men.
This could be a big story, if the media would unblinker itself. The ad encapsulates the problem with a state that is tied so directly to ethnicity. It has to ethnically cleanse Jerusalem. It has to have grossly-discriminatory immigration policies. It has to have separate roadways. And now it has to proselytize the race in other countries like Mississippi Governor Theodore Bilbo preaching against the "mongrelization" of the white race.
It’s surely offensive to people like– say, Dennis Ross, or Andrea Koppel, or Arthur Sulzberger Jr, or descendants of the late Richard Hofstadter — all the product of intermarriage. Is any US tax money paying for this?
Dana Goldstein: "On a more personal note, this policing of personal lives — the guilt attached to the circumstance of loving someone who is not Jewish — has always been one of the elements that pushed me away from organized Judaism, after being raised in a conservative shul. This ad is an embarrassing misstep, and sure to alienate many of the Jews it is intended to reach."
