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Originally posted by kansas13
Plus, if you are different Religions (like Jewish and Christian) at least you won't have to fight with your family/in-laws as to where to go for the holidays!!
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Hee hee, very true. I was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism. My husband and I spend Christmas with my folks and Passover with his folks.
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Originally posted by Buttonz
I could never marry someone who wasn't born Jewish.
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What about someone who converted? Specifically, someone who converted for his own reasons and not just for you?
Anyway... I'm surprised that I didn't mention this when I first started this thread. Part of what prompted me to start the thread, was that I did have a certain boyfriend back when I was in college, and when things started to get serious between us, he demanded that I convert to his religion - Judaism, as it happened - because he wouldn't marry someone who wasn't Jewish. I was a lapsed Catholic at the time. I refused, saying that if I were to choose a religion, it would be for my own reasons and not for someone else's sake. Needless to say, that was the end of our relationship.
When my husband and I started talking about marriage, he told me up front that he didn't care what religion I followed as long as our children would be raised Jewish. I agreed, because I wasn't strongly tied to Catholicism or anything else. But I figured that if my husband and kids were going to be Jewish, I should have a more formal introduction to Judaism, so I signed up for a class... and to make a long story short, now I'm Jewish.
