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To: zonder who wrote (57946)	11/20/2002 3:32:12 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

No, I don't mean extreme religious communities. I would feel like an outsider in a community where most if not all of my neighbors were fervent members of a particular religion and I did not share their beliefs. I don't mean that everyone in my community has to share my beliefs, either - as it happens, they don't and we get along fine. A Jewish community can be either physical (usually Orthodox) or members of a temple who may not live near each other. I am a lapsed Catholic married to a Jew and we are raising our son as a Jew. We chose to join a Reform temple near us with active outreach programs for interfaith couples. Orthodox (and some Conservative) temples are not keen on interfaith marriages. As I said, Reform temples welcome both members of interfaith couples to encourage them to participate in the faith and raise their children as Jews. The more you become an active participant the better, they feel. As for Jewish families' welcome to non-Jewish brides or grooms, well, that depends on the family, of course. In the US opposition based on religion is usually because the prospective in-laws don't want to see their child convert and especially don't want to see their grandchildren raised in another faith. This is as common over Jewish-Christian matches as Jewish-Muslim matches. I would certainly believe the ordeals your Muslim friend and her Jewish husband went through, and I hope it worked out for them. BTW, here's an op-ed piece from today's NYT about the "definition" of Judaism today: nytimes.com