Interfaith Marriage: A Personal Narrative

Since my third anniversary wedding anniversary will appear in the near future, I will reflect on my strategic calculation steps taken before I walk on my marriage, passageway many times, and my decision will keep my life I decided. And my spouse chose to be the couple's principle, but I found out that the reason for my reconsideration was that we decided to worship alone. As my parents married at the age of 58 and 48 and worshiped under the same denomination, me and my husband and I seem to be in violation of traditional rules, that is, family members praying together.

Marriage between different religions is neither new nor shocking. In the 1950s, only 20% of the marriage of the United States consisted of different religious partners. But by the first decade of the 21st century the total reached 45% - the total includes religious related persons and major Protestant Evangelical Christian and Catholic - Protestant marriage not marriage. Among all the beliefs surveyed by Naomi Schaefer Riley, the Jews are more likely to marry than other religions than the author of the book "Till Faith divides us: how to do America Do you change? " According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2013, nearly half (44%) of American married Jews are not Jews. The tradition seems to have been inherited from generation to generation. 83% of married Jews who have only one Jewish parent are married to non-Jews

Many Gentiles preparing to marry the Jews will go through this process early in order to marry in Jewish rituals. The marriage between Jews and Jews is a Jewish marriage and not a marriage between religions. If this is a serious problem, please plan to start learning before the wedding ceremony. Usually during this research, Rabbi asks the person to begin practicing Judaism based on his understanding of his movements. This is a valuable opportunity to explore Judaism. For example, it is worthwhile to explore the rules of defending Judaism during this study, even if someone is not planning on maintaining Judaism (following Jewish ritual rules on food).