How may a Jew and a Christian marry?

Answer 1

Yes, it is legal in most countries for people from two different religious traditions to marry; such intermarriages are still frowned upon by very religious Jews and Christians, but are more common (and more accepted) among people who are not very identified with organized religion. However, there are some serious theological questions that any couple who is planning to intermarry will need to address, if the marriage is going to be successful. While a Jew and a Christian can certainly have a loving relationship, the two faiths have some very real differences. Questions such as where to marry (a church or a synagogue or someplace secular) or what religion to raise the children, or even which holidays to celebrate, can cause dissension if both people do not find a solution they can live with.

Answer 2

While my parents are not technically Jewish and Christian, one comes from one religion, the other from the other. Technically, yes, they can. If their beliefs are strong enough to tear apart their affection, then they don't deserve each other anyway. (i.e. "I can't marry you because you're Jewish, and I can only marry a Catholic!")

Answer 3

It would be possibe if the the people love each other.

Another Answer:Yes. And if you want to stay married, you'd better come to an unflinching clear-eyed decision about how you'll raise the children, how you'll celebrate the holidays, and how you'll break the bad news to the disappointed set of grandparents. And prepare to be disappointed yourself. Whether you're the "winner" or the "loser" in that decision, you'll either have to live with a vaguely depressed spouse, or battle your own sense of loss every time another holiday rolls around.

And whatever you do, don't agree to "compromise" by half-heartedly observing both sets of holidays. Your children will be confused, nobody will be happy, and all the grandparents will be disappointed.

Best advice of all: Pray long and hard about this decision, together, before you choose a solution. God loves honorable people of every religious affiliation, and will guide you if you have an open heart and a listening ear.

Answer 4

They're not supposed to, because it can endanger the future of Judaism. Christians and Moslems (and others) also, agree that people should marry within their own religion.

Sadly, many Jews don't care - they think love is more important.

Answer 5

They are able be married by a justice of the peace, but (opinion:) it's not a good idea. In addition to the Torah's prohibition against doing so, 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.

Answer 6

Yes, even though not all families might agree/be happy with it.

Answer 7

By consulting with their rabbis and/or priests, etc, and booking a day for their interfaith wedding.

Answer 8

According to Torah-law, Christians should marry Christians, and Jews should marry Jews.