Mitch Morrison and Sahar Zivan\u00a0report on UTJ’s conference “The Shidduch Crisis & Intermarriage: Finding Love in the Jewish Community.”<\/p>\n
Concern about shidduchim \u2014 arranged marriages \u2014 is common in the Orthodox community, where there is a stigma to remaining unmarried well into adulthood. But it is unusual for a non-Orthodox organization to sponsor a conference on \u201cthe shidduch crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the title, though, of a two-day program held last week at the Long Beach Hotel on Long Island and sponsored by UTJ, the transdenominational Union for Traditional Judaism. It focused on the impact of socializing, or the lack thereof, on intermarriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Read more at https:\/\/jewishweek.timesofisrael.com\/rethinking-the-shidduch-crisis\/<\/a>.\u00a0 Find video from the entire conference at https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/videos\/the-shidduch-crisis-intermarriage-finding-love-in-the-jewish-community\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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That was the title, though, of a two-day program held last week at the Long Beach Hotel on Long Island and sponsored by UTJ, the transdenominational Union for Traditional Judaism. It focused on the impact of socializing, or the lack thereof, on intermarriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,78,105,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[90],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-cycle","category-modern-judaism","category-relationships","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t