In response to the Times of Israel article, "American Jewish demography and the Challenge of supporting Israel," by Alexander H. Joffe, one would say that Mr. Joffe is too quick to condemn the emerging moiety of more-Observant Jews and their prolific offspring. The future is not yet writ, save perhaps for the fallen-away Jews, those who intermarried and self-selected out of the Jewish community, and those whose fertility is ebbing at the same low tide as that of many Middle Americans who produce the minimum offspring to cope with increasing financial stress, a tardy economic recovery, constricted housing and costly rentals and buy-ins for purchase, and multiple overall conditions inimical to many children. Much like the Second book of the Pentateuch, Exodus, wherein the Jews alarmed the pharaoh and his astrologers by "becoming too numerous," many-childed Jewish families have begun to proliferate among the Orthodox. One might hypothesize, as a direct response to the enfeebling numbers...(Read Full Post)