Comments on: Unsilencing the Intermarried http://www.InterfaithFamily.com/blogs/Network/intermarriage/unsilencing-the-intermarried/ Everything you always wanted to know about intermarriage, but were afraid to ask. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:02:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Zody http://www.InterfaithFamily.com/blogs/Network/intermarriage/unsilencing-the-intermarried/#comment-355 Zody Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:34:25 +0000 http://www.InterfaithFamily.com/blogs/Network/intermarriage/unsilencing-the-intermarried/#comment-355 dave you are right with your opuinions The Conservative movement is a religous oraganization that considers it sel halachic they should not invite interrmaried speakers! dave you are right with your opuinions
The Conservative movement is a religous oraganization that considers it sel halachic they should not invite interrmaried speakers!

]]> By: Dave http://www.InterfaithFamily.com/blogs/Network/intermarriage/unsilencing-the-intermarried/#comment-324 Dave Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:52:09 +0000 http://www.InterfaithFamily.com/blogs/Network/intermarriage/unsilencing-the-intermarried/#comment-324 Harry Reid's wife converted to Mormonism before she married Reid. Does that really make it an intermarriage? BTW this website constantly mentions gentiles who become Jews as a result of intermarriage. Why not mention any Jews who went the other way? Harry Reid’s wife converted to Mormonism before she married Reid. Does that really make it an intermarriage?

BTW this website constantly mentions gentiles who become Jews as a result of intermarriage. Why not mention any Jews who went the other way?

]]> By: h. http://www.InterfaithFamily.com/blogs/Network/intermarriage/unsilencing-the-intermarried/#comment-310 h. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:44:13 +0000 http://www.InterfaithFamily.com/blogs/Network/intermarriage/unsilencing-the-intermarried/#comment-310 this ban is, in your words, impractical and pointless. if i go to hear a Jewish speaker, i go specifically because i am interested in what that person has to say and could care less about their personal life. and even if a Jewish speaker is intermarried, that does not mean they are giving lectures to promote intermarriage (they usually know better than that). i doubt Noah Feldman tells his students at Harvard that they should all intermarry. no, he teaches them about law and i'm pretty sure they're far more concerned with passing his class than with Mrs. Feldman. though i'm sure some seem a little star struck because their law professor was at the center of a major debate last summer. Jewish speakers give lectures to discuss their latest book, film, etc., and those should be the focal point for attending such lectures rather than wondering if their husband or wife is Jewish. this may not be the greatest example...but look at Barbra Streisand. ok, i'm definitely not a fan of her work. but she came to mind for this after i recently read about her in one of Nate Bloom's celebrity blogs. her husband (James Brolin) is not Jewish. do people still flock to see her even though she's intermarried? of course they do. all they care about is seeing her perform (which is rare these days). her marriage is probably not even a second though to most of her fans. this ban is, in your words, impractical and pointless. if i go to hear a Jewish speaker, i go specifically because i am interested in what that person has to say and could care less about their personal life. and even if a Jewish speaker is intermarried, that does not mean they are giving lectures to promote intermarriage (they usually know better than that). i doubt Noah Feldman tells his students at Harvard that they should all intermarry. no, he teaches them about law and i’m pretty sure they’re far more concerned with passing his class than with Mrs. Feldman. though i’m sure some seem a little star struck because their law professor was at the center of a major debate last summer.
Jewish speakers give lectures to discuss their latest book, film, etc., and those should be the focal point for attending such lectures rather than wondering if their husband or wife is Jewish. this may not be the greatest example…but look at Barbra Streisand. ok, i’m definitely not a fan of her work. but she came to mind for this after i recently read about her in one of Nate Bloom’s celebrity blogs. her husband (James Brolin) is not Jewish. do people still flock to see her even though she’s intermarried? of course they do. all they care about is seeing her perform (which is rare these days). her marriage is probably not even a second though to most of her fans.

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