Silent Holocaust (Judaism)

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Silent Holocaust (

National Jewish Outreach Program, popularized the phrase.[4][5]

The word silent is meant to evoke a state of shock due to the fact that millions of Jews are freely choosing to leave Judaism. For some, the loss of millions of Jewish coreligionists is deemed serious enough to be called a holocaust (meaning a "wholesale sacrifice or destruction".)[6]

Some Jewish communal leaders, such as Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald of the National Jewish Outreach Program in New York, refer to the assimilation of Jews into non-Jewish societies as a type of Holocaust. Since World War II, assimilation has been the leading cause of Jewish population decline in Western countries.[3] Buchwald said in 1992 that the Jewish community would not be recognizable in 25 to 30 years.[3] According to the 2000—2001 National Jewish Population Survey, from 1996, 47% of American Jews married a non-Jew. The NJPS survey claims that higher levels of education are associated with lower levels of intermarriage.[7][8]

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  3. ^ a b c Buchwald, Ephraim. "The Holocaust Is Killing America's Jews". njop.org. Archived from the original on 22 July 2004. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. ^ Jewish Pro-Life Foundation. "Why & How Jews Can Help Stop The Abortion Holocaust". jewishprolifefoundation.org. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  5. ^ Judaism Online. "Intermarriage Statistics". simpletoremember.com. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  6. ^ Concise Oxford Dictionary
  7. ^ "NJPS: Variations in Intermarriage". Archived from the original on 2004-08-15. Retrieved 2004-07-21.
  8. Jewish Post of New York
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