Jews marrying non Jews

[Amic]

It seems to be commen,especially in the usa.

Using hollywood as an example most of the Jews stars marry christian women.


what are your toughts

[murphee]

It's common--the statistic I think is over 50%.
I am an American Jew who married a non-Jew.

[Agrippa]

murphee said:

It's common--the statistic I think is over 50%.
I am an American Jew who married a non-Jew.

Do you have children? And if how do you raise them and if not how would you...I mean tradition+denomination etc. and whats your husbands opinion on that?

[murphee]

We don't have children (I never had children; was infertile) and now am age 50.

[murphee]

My husband was raised Southern Baptist and never had children either.

[murphee]

That is a hard question for me to answer because I don't know how I would raise children. I do know that if I had them, I would not have raised them in the Jewish religion, but would have let them know they had Jewish ancestry, and taught them some history of the Jewish people.

[Agrippa]

Thanks for the answer.

[Ewig Berter]

What sort of use would you want to make of these answers, Agrippa!?. Is it just curiosity!?.

[pavel2]

I doubt Judaism, at least the periphary of Judaism, will survive in America within the next 2 generations given the rate of interfaith marriages. The children of these marriages will probably all become christians or catholics. The core Orthodox jews still don't intermarry though, so that'll likely continue


I know one 1/2 Russian jew and another 1/4 polish jew, both look fully european and both born in America so they are fully american culture wise. Naturally, they always celebrated christmas and didn't care much for jewish holidays or feel a kinship with the people. one is married to a catholic the other to a lutheran, and they're happily raising kids christian.

assimilation I guess can be a beautiful thing to some, a tragedy to others. And this goes for everybody

[nymos]

pavel2 said:

I doubt Judaism, at least the periphary of Judaism, will survive in America within the next 2 generations given the rate of interfaith marriages. The children of these marriages will probably all become christians or catholics. The core Orthodox jews still don't intermarry though, so that'll likely continue


I know one 1/2 Russian jew and another 1/4 polish jew, both look fully european and both born in America so they are fully american culture wise. Naturally, they always celebrated christmas and didn't care much for jewish holidays or feel a kinship with the people. one is married to a catholic the other to a lutheran, and they're happily raising kids christian.

assimilation I guess can be a beautiful thing to some, a tragedy to others. And this goes for everybody

You're talking about "Jewishness" from a religious point of view. Russian Jews are not religious in any case, let alone 1/2 Russian Jews. Ditto for 1/4 Polish Jews.

[murphee]

Yes, only the future will tell about the fate of American Jewry. My guess is: The Orthodox will remain, many of the Reform and secular Jews will assimilate, practice of the non-Orthodox religion maybe gradually ending or at least reduced.
My brother married a Jewish woman and brought up their children in the Conservative branch. They identify as Jewish strongly, ethnically and religiously. A while back, my nephew for a long time dated a Muslim woman.
My family liked her. I think the romance ended because her family was not too keen about it. I use this example because I think it is fairly common for non-Orthodox Jews to be strongly identified with their religion and heritage and at the same time not refuse to accept others from different backrounds into their circles.