Should Jews marry Jews

Answer 1

That a Jew would marry a fellow Jew would make the marriage between the two partners work. Jews are even supposed to marry cousins per Numbers (B'midbar) 36:

" 5And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying: 'The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right. 6This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying: Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married. 7So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.' 10Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.11For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons. 12They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. 13These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. {P}"

Answer 2

Well, Christians marry other Christians, Hindus marry other Hindus, so; Jews marry other Jews. There.

Traditional Judaism does not permit interfaith marriages, because the children of such marriages would be lost to Judaism. Their religious beliefs are such that members are following religious doctrine by marriage within their faith.

This is not a practice found only in the Jewish community - it is cultural and found among some members of every diversity on the planet. Some people feel such a strong connection to either their religious or ethnic background, they believe for a marriage to work the couple should share the same religious-ethnic "history".

There are people who can trace their family heritage for generations, keeping their cultural blood line is important and can only be achieved by marriage and baring children of the same culture.

Undoubtedly their are people within every culture who believe they are superior to other cultures or even to other people in another caste of their own culture - in order for them to maintain this imaginary superiority they will only marry at their own "level" of society or above. But again, this is a cultural or personal belief system, the Jewish belief that they are G-ds' chosen people after being lead out of slavery by Moses. In order to remain in G-d's grace there are 613 "rules" or "commandments" vs 10 of the Christian religions. When G-d revealed these "rules" to the Jewish people, the entire nation responded, "Everything that the L-rd has spoken, we will do!"

According to Jewish tradition, every Jewish soul that would ever be born was present at that moment, and agreed to be bound to this covenant.

Answer 3

Because they have the same religion, which means the same rules and Creator. Also, marrying someone of your own religion is easier because you know what they're allowed & not allowed to do by religion.

Answer 4

Whether or not you marry someone has nothing to do with their ethnicity. However, marrying someone with similar beliefs improves the chances of a successful marriage. Interfaith marriages have a slightly higher rate of divorce than same-faith marriages.

Answer 5

You should marry a Jew if you are Jewish.
Intermarriage is gradually causing the disappearance of broad segments of the Jewish people.

• Link: Decline of non-Orthodox Jewry
  

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 counterparts (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.