Intermarriage
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How Intermarriage is Perceived
I’m doing some research on Judaism. Could a Jewish man marry outside the religion, like marry a Baptist, and still be considered a practicing Jew? No, for an educated Jew to do so would be akin to throwing a Torah…
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Half Jewish
My fathers family is Jewish, my mothers family is catholic and protestant. But Neither of my parents believe in organized religion. I had a Bris (Circumcision) and became a Bar-Mitzvah, but often I hear that I cannot be Jewish because…
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What’s Wrong With Intermarriage?
If I knew that I would have a wonderful married life with a nonJew and that my children would grow up following Jewish law completely as a result, what argument would Judaism have against it? I’m afraid that I will…
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Intermarried Cousin
My cousin is getting married to a non Jewish girl. My family and I are not happy with this. He had been going out with her for already a few years, but we’ve not really told anything to him about…
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Matrilineal Descent, Source
Why doesn’t the father determine the religion of the son? The Talmudic and Biblical sources for matrilineal descent is: Mishnah (Kiddushin 3:12), which says that the child of a gentile woman is like her. This is derived from the passage…
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Two Religions In One Family
Is it ok for me to marry a catholic men? He wants to marry me in front of an catholic church. First, thanks for asking this question. It must have been hard to realize that the question needed to be…
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The Prohibition of Intermarriage
Why does the Torah forbid intermarriage? The Torah forbids intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews (Deut. 7:3ff: “You shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for your son”) because it…