The author states that the increase in American Jews who keep kosher from 15 to 21 percent is largely a result of more Reform Jews keeping kosher but provides no evidence to back up this claim. What does exist is evidence that Orthodox Judaism has more than doubled in size in the United States in the last 20 years as a percentage of American Jewry. Thus, it is much more likely that the growth from 15 to 21 percent is a reflection of Orthodoxy's growth relative to American Jewry as a whole, and not because more Reform Jews are keeping kosher wine. (Furthermore, even if younger Reform Jews don't bring shellfish or pork into their homes, it is quite a stretch to extrapolate from that that many of them are purchasing kosher wines. Drinking kosher wine is only done by those who keep "strict" kashrut. In my entire life I have never met a single person who is kosher in the no-shellfish-and-pork sense who drinks kosher wines.)

I also found it troubling that the author was quite critical of Orthodox Judaism and yet he did not quote or cite a single Orthodox individual, though he did quote numerous Reform and Conservative rabbis (nearly all of whom agreed with him in demonizing Orthodox practice).

Well, even though I am a non-observant Jew, I do not believe that the laws and customs of Judaism can be "rationalized" into insignificance. I simply have chosen not to observe them. I don't dismiss them or try to make excuses for them, or myself.

Reading the article, I found myself confused, and possibly a bit amused, by the statements of Reform Jews (who DO wish to rationalize and dilute Jewish law) that kosher wine is what they want, but they want to reduce the rules required to make a wine kosher. At what point does the fact that the wine is kosher become meaningless? Oh, well, if the wine can be made by non-Jews, then isn't all wine kosher? Grapes are, after all, fruits and, by Jewish law, all fruit is kosher as long as you make sure there are no insects on it. They might has well purchase whatever wine they wish and wave a wand over it and, poof!, it will be kosher.