As a Jewish person, I'd like to kindly correct and cover some portions of your article, which are misinformed and inaccurate, trying my best to ignore political positions:
"For a religious group that is strictly divided along gender lines and does not evangelize itself, the shidduch is a method for maintaining this tight social cohesion. In essence, the shidduch system is one of the only institutional forms of arranged marriage in the United States."
Shidduch is just essentially Jewish matchmaking. It has nothing to do with arranged marriage, it's just a method in which religious Jews find matches. You can literally just look at Jewish Matchmaking on Netflix (which is shidduch).
Religious dropout rate from the article does not mean drop-out rates for the religion, as you wrote. Big difference between the two.
Also, much of your information about Modern Orthodox "marriage in crisis" is false. You can read further about Modern Orthodox vs. Haredi marriages here:
As a Jewish person, I'd like to kindly correct and cover some portions of your article, which are misinformed and inaccurate, trying my best to ignore political positions:
"For a religious group that is strictly divided along gender lines and does not evangelize itself, the shidduch is a method for maintaining this tight social cohesion. In essence, the shidduch system is one of the only institutional forms of arranged marriage in the United States."
Shidduch is just essentially Jewish matchmaking. It has nothing to do with arranged marriage, it's just a method in which religious Jews find matches. You can literally just look at Jewish Matchmaking on Netflix (which is shidduch).
Religious dropout rate from the article does not mean drop-out rates for the religion, as you wrote. Big difference between the two.
Also, much of your information about Modern Orthodox "marriage in crisis" is false. You can read further about Modern Orthodox vs. Haredi marriages here:
https://www.jta.org/2020/07/15/ny/changing-personal-and-family-choices-in-contemporary-orthodox-lives