Reply To: Becoming More Wealthy, Becoming Less Frum

ZD, that’s hogwash. Jews have mostly gone OTD due to affluence not poverty. The Jews in Spain who converted to Christianity rather than flee during the expulsion were mostly the afluent ones who didn’t want to lose their fortune that they were forbidden to take with them out of Spain and Portugal. Similarly when the Reform got started it was mostly constituted of the wealthier and financially better off Jews who left frumkeit and Orthodoxy to join the fledging Reform movement.