Adam Bronfman on welcoming the intermarried

Adam Bronfman, Managing Director of the Samuel Bronfman foundation, talks with JTA about his foundation's interest in making the Jewish community more inclusive of interfaith families.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• jews
• jewish
• judaism
• intermarriage
• interfaith
• bronfman
• foundation
• community

[kemaste]

Judaism is not what the Bronfman's decide it is. G-d made a covenant with the Jewish people - He is our G-d and we are His holy nation. To be holy means to be separate. To fulfill G-d's wishes, we are to marry other Jews. That means born to Jewish mothers or Jews through a Halachic - or Orthodox conversion. Man cannnot speak for G-d and G-d is not a man that changes His mind. In fifty years Orthodox Jews will be the majority as the others will disappear due to complete assimilation BY CHOICE.

[pynchonfan]

I am glad to see an effort like this being made. I was close to converting (with my wife) at a Conservative temple, but it was derailed when my wife changed her mind and the rabbi was unwilling to create a mixed marriage. (I thought "mixed marriage" and intermarriage was frightening only to people who wore white sheets and burned crosses.) If I had it to do over again, I would have "forgotten" to tell my rabbi that my wife changed her mind, but I did the right thing and bitterly regret it.