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There is no Torah prohibition against interfaith marriages, though some Jewish communities strongly oppose it.
Here are some different opinions and views:
Answer:
It's hard to know how any individual views anything unless he tells you about it.
Judaism doesn't much care about interfaith marriage, unless one of the partners happens to be Jewish, in which case it usually strongly discourages the plan, except among the Reform Jews, who instead encourage the keeping of a Jewish household as more important than the religion of one of the spouses.
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I'm Jewish. My aunt married a catholic and in my part of religion, it depends if the mother is Jewish, generally the kids are raised that way. If she's not I don't know, but also it depends on the kind of Judaism they are. If they're, for instance, Orthodox i don't think they would marry anyone, but another Orthodox person. I'm Reform, so it's different.
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It is absolutely forbidden to marry outside Judaism. If the mother is Jewish, the children are Jewish. If the mother is Jewish through Orthodox conversion, the children are Jewish. Otherwise, they are perfectly innocent people, and they are not blamed for their parents' sins, but they are not Jewish and will not be accepted as members of the Jewish community.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 6y agoMost Jews oppose intermarriage. Even Liberal Jews frown on intermarriage with non-Jews.
Answer 2
Intermarriage is gradually causing the disappearance of broad segments of the Jewish people.
In addition to the Torah's prohibition against intermarriage, there are very many cases in which the spouses use the religious difference as fuel to add to the flames once they're already fighting over other matters. Maintaining a marriage is hard enough without the interfering factor of different religious backgrounds.
Also, there is the question of how to raise the children. A seemingly kumbaya-type peace-loving interfaith education very often turns out to be confusing to the children, who now have no complete identity. Statistics show that mixed-marriage children are less likely to practice any religion at all, than are their single-faith peers (even those of minimally-religious homes).
In actual practice, intermarriage amounts to assimilation, the product of which is descendants who may no longer see themselves as part of the religious heritage of either parent.
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∙ 9y agoIntermarriage is gradually causing the disappearance of broad segments of the Jewish people.
In actual practice, intermarriage amounts to assimilation, the product of which is descendants who may no longer see themselves as part of the religious heritage of either parent.
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∙ 13y agoNo, but it's done anyway.
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What happens if a Jew marries a non-Jew?
Depends on the particular couple. Some coexist or perhaps one converts to the other's religion.Jewish and Christian religious leaders typically discourage intermarriage. Intermarriage is gradually causing the disappearance of broad segments of the Jewish people.In addition to the Torah's prohibition against intermarriage, there are very many cases in which the spouses use the religious difference as fuel to add to the flames once they're already fighting over other matters. Maintaining a marriage is hard enough without the interfering factor of different religious backgrounds.Also, there is the question of how to raise the children. A seemingly kumbaya-type peace-loving interfaith education very often turns out to be confusing to the children, who now have no complete identity. Statistics show that mixed-marriage children are less likely to practice any religion at all, than are their single-faith peers (even those of minimally-religious homes).In actual practice, intermarriage amounts to assimilation, the product of which is descendants who may no longer see themselves as part of the religious heritage of either parent.
Is a female half Jewish when the father is Jewish and the mother is not?
Under traditional Jewish law, Jewishness is inherited through the mother so that only children of Jewish mothers are considered to be Jewish. As a result, a Jewish man who wants his children to be accepted in a traditional Jewish community will seek to marry only a Jewish woman. Some of the more liberal Jewish communities now accept the children of Jewish fathers as Jewish when they are raised in the Jewish faith. In addition, there have always been processes through which non-Jews an convert to Judaism. This would permit a non-Jewish woman to convert, marry a Jewish man and have their children recognized as Jewish in traditional communities. It also permits the children of a non-Jewish mother to be raised and accepted as Jews even in traditional communities. In Judaism there's no such thing as "half-Jewish."
What are Jewish beliefs concerning marriage?
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Is ham a traditional food for celebrating a Jewish man's birthday?
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Is the number of Jews growing or shrinking?
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