Why should the Jewish community "reach out" and accept those that stab us in the back? It was precisely this overly condoning, overly sympathetic, overtly spoiling mentality that got us in this position in the first place. If the Jews had put their foot down 25 years ago we wouldn't be in this situation. I just don't understand why you should embrace those that despise you.

To be a member of Judaism, we rquire one thing, one social tax of sorts. In todays Judiams, fundamentally we don't require you to keep kosher, to wear tziztis, to go to shul, to do anything EXCEPT to marry another jew. Here, you're saying that even though these people have benefited greatly from being born Jewish, they were so narcissistic and so self-righteous that they couldn't do the one thing that Judaism asks to be repaid for everything its done for them. And now you're saying that even though these people couldn't bother to do even the one request their religion asks of them, we should still open our arms to them? I would love to live in your world where there are no consequences for your actions. But in the real world when you eat the forbidden fruit, you pay the price. A jew that intermarries is a treasonous non-jew, nothing more, nothing less - and should be treated by the community the way our community treates every non-Jew be it good or bad.

Our numbers may go down, but Judaism has always been quality over quantity. The Jews paid the price for not fighting back during WWII, and they'll pay the price now for baptizing their kids immortal and allowing their kids to marry whoever they wish. But the ones who survive, the ones who emerge Jewish will make Judaism that much stronger for it, instead of a watered down assimilated teen fan club you so desperately wish it to be.

Jewish Destrudo