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From: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: The Tragedy of Assimilation
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 10:51:28 EST
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In article <1172@lll-crg.ARpA> figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold) writes:
>As a Jew married to a Gentile who is the daughter of a Jew who got his
>fiancee to convert, I agree that the pressure put upon Gentile partners
>of Jews to convert is absurd; it really ticks me off that many rabbis
>would rather give a Jew up for dead than marry them to a non-Jew.
>
>I saw what kind of Jew my mother became and decided that it was absurd
>to ask my husband to convert.  I'd rather have a non-Jew for a spouse
>than a pseudo-Jew any day!
>
>--Lynn Gold
>...lll-crg!figmo

The answer is quite simple--that is the tradition and the law.  A Jew who
marries out of the faith is (according to the Bible, I believe) supposed to
be given up for dead.  Rabbis who do perform mixed marriages are few and
far between partially because of this, but also because they stand to lose
prestige in the Jewish community.

And personally, as a single Jewish man, I would rather marry a 'pseudo'-Jew
than a non-Jew.  My parents agree with me, though that is NOT why I
maintain this preference. 
-- 
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