Jewish Babies

Religious revival after WWII was the push from Eastern European Jews to implement Jewish traditions that were lost after decades of assimilation in the GREAT United States of America.This movement was spearheaded by NeoReform Jews and included a return to customs such as bris mila,Bar/Bat Mitzvah and wearing yarmalkes and tallisim.Our speaker this week, Rebecca Davis, gave us the erroneous impression that religious revival was due to personal investment from Reform rabbis to their intermarried congregants.She claims very little credit was given to Reform rabbis who were responsible for building Jewish identity through intermarriage counselling.
My confusion about what she said is as follows:if the rate of intermarriage which she presented in class was 7% in 1967 then how exactly does counselling such a small amount of intermarried couples constitute a religious revival?If we look at the figures today of intermarriage---close to half of American Jews are intermarried!Certainly the work involved in Jewish continuity is not all that prim and fluffy as our speaker made it seem.
The real issue of intermarriage is this:the number of Jewish people is diminishing.Whenever a Jew marries out of the faith,studies show that the children do not always identify Jewish.Furthermore,while its true that as long as the mother is Jewish then the children will be halachically Jewish, there is a risk however, whether or not these children will identify Jewish.Unlike Christianity,Jews do not proselytize.So,if we do not get our numbers through Jewish babies,we do not get them at all!Still, in the best case scenario,when both parents are Jewish,marriage is difficult enough let alone raising children with a strong Jewish identity.So there are no guarantees.American culture makes it near impossible for anyone to have an ethnoreligious identity.Nevertheless,a Jew has the responsibility to keep passing on our tradition to the next generation.