Intermarriage

Is it racist for a Jew to want a Jewish spouse? A series of articles and dialogues on intermarriage

Certainly, one of the most worrisome and least understood subjects of Jewish life is that of intermarriage. Why is it such an issue, and how are we to deal with it?

It seems that the more determined I am to marry a Jew, the more fantastic non-Jewish girls walk into my life. Maybe G-d is trying to tell me something?

If insisting that you will only date Jews makes you racist, does insisting that you will only date men make you sexist?

Rabbi Hodakov, the Rebbe's secretary, was on the line. "The Rebbe says to tell the young woman that there is a Jew in Brooklyn who cannot sleep at night because she intends to marry a non-Jew."

My fiancé's parents told me that for a Jew to marry a non-Jew is worse than the Holocaust! I don't get it. Am I really that terrible?

Dear Rabbi Abrahamson: My name is Juan. Unfortunately, I do not have the honor of being a Jew. I am 26 years old and a year ago I met a Jewish girl whose name I prefer not to reveal. Obviously you must imagine where all this is leading....

Dear Rabbi Abrahamson: My name is Juan. Unfortunately, I do not have the honor of being a Jew. I am 26 years old and a year ago I met a Jewish girl whose name I prefer not to reveal. You probably imagine what this is leading....

On my desk sit the pictures and the invitation. The pictures are of a past generation that never really was, and the invitation represents the future generation that may never be...

My question is: my parents aren't religious, we never kept kosher or any of the festivals.Why all of a sudden are they so Jewish when it comes to who I marry?