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Post-Soviet Jewry on the Cusp of Its Third Decade – Part 1

Post-Soviet Jewry on the Cusp of Its Third Decade – Part 1

May 25, 2007 | Dr. Betsy Gidwitz
Demographically, post-Soviet Jewry has seen an overall decline resulting from assimilation, intermarriage, low fertility, high mortality, and emigration of younger age cohorts. Some demographers believe that less than 500,000 Jews remain in the post-Soviet states. An intermarriage rate that some view as exceeding 80 percent creates complex situations for those Jewish groups that prefer to confine their programs to halachically Jewish individuals