{"id":25599,"date":"2012-09-26T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25599"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:59:34","slug":"jewish-multiracial-families-grow-in-numbers-and-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25599","title":{"rendered":"Jewish multiracial families grow in numbers and commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jewish multiracial families grow in numbers and commitment<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Denver Post<\/a>
\nDenver, Colorado
\n2012-09-25<\/p>\n

Electa Draper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Three Denver mothers heading multiracial families are seeking to build on what it means to live in Jewish community.<\/p>\n

The community is changing.<\/p>\n

It’s perhaps a surprising slice of demography that shows that 16 percent of metro Denver Jewish households headed by people ages 39 and younger are multiracial.<\/p>\n

Among all age groups, 9 percent are multiracial, according to the 2007 Metro Denver\/Boulder Jewish Community Study<\/a>. National organizations note that the trend is increasing through conversion, marriage and adoption…<\/p>\n

…For years, American Jews have been characterized as a “white” ethno-religious group, “both in terms of their racial classification and in terms of their cultural alignment in American society,” reported the UJA-Federation of New York in its comprehensive 2011 study<\/a> released in June.<\/p>\n

“However, several factors \u2014 intermarriage and adoption among them \u2014 have been working to alter that nearly all-white imagery and reality to some extent,” the report states…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jewish multiracial families grow in numbers and commitment The Denver Post Denver, Colorado 2012-09-25 Electa Draper Three Denver mothers heading multiracial families are seeking to build on what it means to live in Jewish community. The community is changing. It’s perhaps a surprising slice of demography that shows that 16 percent of metro Denver Jewish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[5510,12159,12161,12158,12160],"class_list":["post-25599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-colorado","tag-denver","tag-denver-post","tag-electa-draper","tag-the-denver-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}