ABSTRACT
Much is being written about the near-epidemic rate of religious outmarriage among American Jews. According to the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS), fully 26 percent of all ever-married Jews-by-birth selected non-Jewish partners for their first marriage. The secular trend is clear: whereas only 9 percent of those who first married prior to 1950 had non-Jewish partners, more than half of those first married since 1980 have outmarried (Table 7.1). Moreover, despite minor differences in some decades, Jewish men and women appear equally likely to marry non-Jewish partners.
