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1 in 3 Canadian Jews have a non-Jewish spouse. What does that mean for the country's Jewish future?

JL;DR SUMMARY Hosts Avi Finegold, Yedida Eisenstat, and Matthew Leibl, joined by special guest Phoebe Maltz Bovy, discuss recent findings on intermarriage trends among Canadian Jews, exploring implications for Jewish identity and community continuity. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish LawJewish IdentityReligious PracticeMontrealIntermarriageCultural ChangeTorontoCanadian JewsNapoleonCommunity Continuity

Places mentioned

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
"Matthew, are you aware that Schar Zedek, I believe that's your synagogue, is one of the more quieter bathrooms in all of the city of Winnipeg?"
Canada
"1 in 3 Canadian Jews have a non-Jewish spouse."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"I know that you went to school on the south side of Chicago, as did I for a little while."
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"And I'm wondering whether I'm seeing some unrepresentative sample of Canadian Jews, or whether it's being measured differently in Canada versus the States, like who's Jewish and who isn't, things like that."
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