Published: 18 December 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
IT IS TIME TO be more realistic about mixed-faith marriage. The debate has raged not just in the pages of the JC recently but in the community at large over the past 70 years.
Ever since then, communal leaders have been trying to work out how to combat it with a variety of techniques — sermons condemning it, family pressure, invigorating youth clubs, student tours to Israel, the growth in Jewish day schools — but none has had great effect.
The thousands of couples who came to my seminars, “I’m Jewish, My Partner Isn’t” never asked “Rabbi, shall we get married?”, but said, “Rabbi, we are getting married — can you help?”
FULL STORY The challenge of marrying ‘in’ (Jewish Chronicle)
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