In the Jewish community, especially in America, there has been growing concern about the decline of traditions, affiliation and faith in Judaism. Many rabbis and Jewish leaders believe that interfaith marriages are the root cause of this epidemic. Because over the past thirty years, forty percent of all American Jewish marriages have become interfaith (p. vii Gluck). Although some Jewish leaders view intermarriage as a serious problem, Susan Katz Miller, author of the New York Times article, “Being 'Part-Jewish,'” lays out her positive view on interfaith families and communities. From his personal experience and the facts he has gathered, Miller believes that Jewish leaders need not worry about interfaith marriages because it has been proven that children of these families move toward Judaism. Intermarriage families worry Jewish leaders and rabbis largely in part because the Torah, which is the center of Judaism, states that interfaith marriage is against Jewish law and, ultimately, interfaith families could be a “terrible choice and potentially harmful (Miller)”. The Torah says: “You shall not intermarry with them (non-Jews): do not give your daughters to their sons, and do not take their daughters for your sons. For they will turn your children away from Me to worship other gods (Deut. 7:3-4)” (p. 93 Wolak). Furthermore, in the book of Ezra he forbids interreligious marriage because the offspring could not speak Judean and made Judaism impure (p. 93-96 Wolak). Therefore, Ezra forced the men to divorce their foreign wives and send the women back together with the children to their homelands. Another problem that arises from interfaith families and communities is the interpretation of the Torah. Ari Goldman, author of The Search......half article......Random House,1991. Print.Jacobs, Steven Leonard. ““Can We Talk?”: The Jewish Jesus in a Dialogue between Jews and Christians.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 28: 135-148. Print.Miller, Susan Katz. “Being 'Partly' Jewish.” The New York Times October 31, 2013: 2. Print.Pawlikowski, John T.. “Fifty Years of Christian-Jewish Dialogue: What Has Changed?” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 49: 99-106. Print.Sangwon, Kim and Giselle B. Esquivel. “Adolescent spirituality and resilience: Theory, research and educational practices.” Psychology in Schools 48: 755-765. Print.Smith-Christopher, Daniel L.. Subverting Hate: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions. 1998. Reprint. New York: Orbis Books;, 2008. Print.Wolak, Arthur J.. “Ezra's Radical Solution to the Assimilation of Judea.” Hebrew Quarterly Bible 40:93-104. Press.