Interracial Marriages Soar

[Mrs Bucket]

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible. A quote from Paulo Coelho; a spiritual author.

People have replied in this thread that are eloquently written and I hope they are taken to heart.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

I "understand" but I don't get it. I don't know how to explain what I mean. We have come so far, yet we haven't come as far as we think. I dated a man of a different race for 7 years. I was amazed at how we were treated when we went out together. I don't care what people think in general, so it didn't matter, but it still shocked me. I believe in "tasting the rainbow" so to say. I don't care about the wrapper, I want what's inside.

My older sister when to our Rabbi to have him marry her and boyfriend who was Black , our Rabbi would not married them! This was in the 60's so my sister had JP marry her! I am dated Black men in the 60's and I was not shocked at the treatment we got , I knew people did not like seeing a White woman and Black man together , but I did not give damm what people said or how they they felt! The cops where the one that gave us the most shit as they could get away with it!! I was refused to use a bathroom in Ca. because I was with a Black man! We were told both bathrooms were 'broken'!

 

[Reba]

My older sister when to our Rabbi to have him marry her and boyfriend who was Black, our Rabbi would not married them!

Did the Rabbi refuse to do the ceremony specifically because the man was black? Was the boyfriend Jewish?

 

[Mrs Bucket]

Jewish intermarriages

According to the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01, 47% of marriages involving Jews in the United States between 1996 and 2001 were with non-Jewish partners. Rates of intermarriage have increased in other countries in the diaspora as well. Jewish leaders in different branches generally agree that possible assimilation is a crisis, but they differ on the proper response to intermarriage.

All branches of Orthodox Judaism refuse to accept any validity or legitimacy of intermarriages.
Conservative Judaism does not sanction intermarriage, but encourages acceptance of the non-Jewish spouse within the family, hoping that such acceptance will lead to conversion.
Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism permit total personal autonomy in interpretation of Jewish Law, and intermarriage is not forbidden. Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis are free to take their own approach to performing marriages between a Jewish and non-Jewish partner. Many but not all seek agreement from the couple that the children will be raised as Jewish.
There are also differences between streams on what constitutes an intermarriage, arising from their differing criteria for being Jewish in the first place. Orthodox and Conservative streams do not accept as Jewish a person whose mother is not Jewish, nor a convert whose conversion was conducted under the authority of a more liberal stream.

Table 14. Intermarriage by year marriage began.

Year marriage began Percent intermarried

Before 1970 13

1970-1979 28

1980-1984 38

1985-1990 43

1991-1995 43

1996-2001 47

National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01

It could have been a race issue or the rabbi felt the couple did not know each other well enough to marry each other.

 

[somedeafdudefromPNW]

Wirelessly posted

Well, we don't know when they tried to marry. Sounded like it was in the 60s or 70s.

 

[A]

Did the Rabbi refuse to do the ceremony specifically because the man was black? Was the boyfriend Jewish?

Have you ever seen the movie fiddle on the roof?

Probably either or both (when they see a black person, they automatically assume not Jewish) , but I wouldn't know unless I ask the Rabbi why.

 

[deafdyke]

We did not misunderstand you at all. You posted those statements knowing there was ignorance in them.

NO. I knew that some of the more conservative posters here would take that as an attack on ALL Baptists. I clearly stated that there's a HUGE HUGE range of beliefs in the American Baptist church. If I wanted to generalize I would have said ALL Baptists! SHEESH! I am NOT saying that about ALL Baptists. Simply saying that there are a HUGE HUGE range of beliefs in Baptist churches, and there are some extremists who may not believe in interracial marraiges. I'm not basing this on my experiances. I'm basing it on stuff I have read. You think I'm making stuff up? Go and lurk at Stormfront sometime....there are extreme Baptists there.

 

[Calvin]

Mod note:

Thread is closed... enuf said.

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