Intermarriage Among Jewish Americans

Answer the following, based also on the Pew Report:

1.    How does the scholar respond to the growing phenomenon of inter-marriage?

2.    What are the key challenges that the scholar identifies concerning the future of the non-Orthodox streams of Judaism in the US?

3.     From your reading of the report, your scholar’s response and your own familiarity with US Jewry or the latest Pew Report, would you argue that American Jewry is increasingly becoming less connected to the wider Jewish world and to Israel?