Jewish Overpopulation Research Paper

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The American Jewish population has a rather frightening success story. They have assimilated so well into the meld of peoples in this country that it is actually threatening their survival as a culture. In 1990, the National Jewish Population Survey found a 52 percent intermarriage rate, shocking much of the Jewish world.

God’s chosen people survived the threat of genocide under the Czar of Russia and Adolph Hitler but are now under threat in America by their success of being accepted. Jews make up two percent of the American population, and number about six million. But a Harvard study predicts that if trends continue there will be less than a million American Jews 80 years from now, and conceivably less than 10,000.
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