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- Rinzai Zen - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
It's technically illegal but they do it anyway. I exchanged emails with a muslim woman married to a jew in israel. There is also jews married to christians. There's not a lot of it but it happens. @Homer, this guy is a level one with a hidden profile. You can't possibly know those things. Anybody could use that avatar name.
- Ahava - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
I am not surprised as it is a Jewish nation which relies on what the Bible says. And G.od through his prophets and his Law forbids intermarriage because of the fear that the Jewish person will leave his or her faith for the beloved''s one.
Deuteronomy 23:4
Deuteronomy 23:8-9
However, if the beloved who is from another religion decides to convert genuinely to Judaism, and after a certain time (6 months to 10 years) and after being trained in the 613 commandments and other customs, is accepted and undergo the conversion with 3 recognized Orthodox Jewish rabbis and immerse the convert in a ritual bath 3 times, then marriage is allowed. I knew that for a fact as many convert to be able to marry a Jewish person. Nevertheless, if it is found out by the Rabbi that the candidate to conversion is only converting to get married, then the conversion will not be permitted. As many converts stop being Jewish after their conversion or if the marriage fails.
By the way, this is an Israeli law, not an American one. So that is the reason why you don't hear about it on the American media.
- Expertcannon287 - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
That is not true
Firstly a convert to Judaism CAN marry a Jew, whether they are athiest or religious. That is absolute rubbish when you say they can't
Secondly it is not illegal for intermarriage. It is just that in the past there was no such thing as a civil marriage in Israel, so marriages were governed by the religous authorities. So the Muslim Imams decided they will not marry Muslims to non Muslims, the Christians decided they will not marry Christians to non Christians, and Rabbis decided to not marry Jews to non Jew.
Mixed marriages performed overseas were of course recognized.
This is all changing, and there have been many bills put to Parliment to allow civil marriages and take it out of the hands of the religous authorities.
All you are trying to do as usual Leveret is stir up conflict. You are really confused, aren't you?
I mean in the past you have claimed you are black, Native American, Latino and Jewish
You have also claimed that you and your wife are childless, but also said you have a son you want to bring up as a feminist.
You are just on Yahoo Answers to cause arguements. Grow up!
- affinity292 - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
That is both false and misleading.
It is false because intermarriage is not and has never been illegal in Israel.
The distortion is that until a few years ago it was very difficult to get an interfaith marriage conducted inside Israel. But, this was not because Israel was biased or because it blocked interfaith marriages.
It was an unintended consequence of a law written to protect the religious freedom of everyone.
The law said that any official clergy could officiate a wedding. This protected every religious group.
However, every religious faith refused to marry people of different faiths. So, Muslim Imams refused to marry people unless both parties were Muslim, Christian priests the same and Rabbis the same.
Because Israel did not have "civil marriages" by justice of the peace, only some consular officials could conduct weddings.
And of course, Israel recognized marriages done outside of Israel.
I find the second part puzzling. In Israel, a convert to Judaism is 100% Jewish and has no restrictions.
- Short and sweet - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
False. Troll. Complete rubbish. Questions like this show what kind of nuts are out to get her & why Israel deserves our support.
In Israel you can be married to ANYONE you want.
To get married, they don't have civil marriages until recently. So Rabbis, Imams, Priests & other religion's people did the marriages. ALL RELIGIONS didn't perform religious intermarriages. So you'd leave Israel for Cyprus, get married & it'd be legal in Israel on return. So you can be married to ANYONE you want.
Rabbis do marry converted Jew to other Jews all the time, all over the world including Israel. Converts are fully Jewish in Judaism.
An atheistic Jew is a what?? -- it's a religion! So they aren't wanting a Jewish marriage. So who cares who they marry, and they don't need a Rabbi. FYI, most Israeli Jews are secular but in Israel that doesn't mean atheist, it means non-observant, not "secular, not believing in religion" the way it does in the U.S..
Asker Leverent - has been 16 one day, 15 the next. On a reservation Native American, black in Detroit ghettos. Married & a child. He made such obvious hate trolling from the beginning, and nothing's changed except the details.
- n00bz - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
FALSE.
you are talking about a religious ceremony vs civil contract.
as most of the Israelis are not orthodox and oppose old misinterrupted rules and laws your claim is invalid.
- Benji - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
In Saudi Arabia it's not legal for a Jew to live, forget marrying anybody.
Israel can take care of its own laws, and thanks you for your interest.
- Kevin7 - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
That statement is not true,it is allowed in Israel
- gatita - 11-09-2012 04:56 PM
September 7, 2009
The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as "scare tactics," are designed to stop assimilation through intermarriage among young Diaspora Jews by encouraging their move to Israel.
The campaign, which cost $800,000, was created in response to reports that half of all Jews outside Israel marry non-Jews. It is just one of several initiatives by the Israeli state and private organizations to try to increase the size of Israel's Jewish population.
According to one ad, voiced over by one of the country's leading news anchors, assimilation is "a strategic national threat," warning: "More than 50 percent of Diaspora youth assimilate and are lost to us."
Adam Keller, of Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace group, said this was a reference both to a general fear in Israel that the Jewish people may one day disappear through assimilation and to a more specific concern that, if it is to survive, Israel must recruit more Jews to its "demographic war" against Palestinians.
The issue of assimilation has been thrust into the limelight by a series of surveys over several years carried out by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a think tank established in Jerusalem in 2002 comprising leading Israeli and Diaspora officials.
The institute's research has shown that Israel is the only country in the world with a significant Jewish population not decreasing in size. The decline elsewhere is ascribed both to low birth rates and to widespread intermarriage.
According to the institute, about half of all Jews in Western Europe and the United States assimilate by intermarrying, while the figure for the former Soviet Jewry is reported to reach 80 percent.
Israel, whose Jewish population of 5.6 million accounts for 41 percent of worldwide Jewry, has obstructed intermarriage between its Jewish and Arab citizens by refusing to recognize such marriages unless they are performed abroad.
The advertising campaign is directed particularly at Jews in the United States and Canada, whose combined 5.7 million Jews constitute the world's largest Jewish population. Most belong to the liberal Reform stream of Judaism that, unlike Orthodoxy, does not oppose intermarriage.
One-third of Jews in the Diaspora are believed to have relatives in Israel.
According to the campaign's organizers, more than 200 Israelis rang a hot line to report names of Jews living abroad after the first TV advertisement was run on Wednesday. Callers left details of e-mail addresses and Facebook and Twitter accounts.
The 30-second clip featured a series of missing-persons posters on street corners, in subways and on telephone boxes showing images of Jewish youths above the word "Lost" in different languages. A voiceover asks anyone who "knows a young Jew living abroad" to call the hot line: "Together, we will strengthen their connection to Israel, so that we don't lose them."
The campaign supports a government-backed program, Masa, that subsidizes stays and courses in Israel of up to one year in a bid to persuade Jews to immigrate and become citizens. About 8,000 Diaspora Jews attend its program each year.
The government has been trying to develop Masa alongside a rival program, Birthright Israel, which brings nearly 20,000 Diaspora youngsters to Israel each year on sponsored 10-day trips to meet Israeli soldiers and visit sites in Israel and the West Bank that are promoted as important to the Jewish people.
Although Birthright is regarded as useful in encouraging a positive image of Israel, officials fear it has only a limited effect on attracting
gatita
Degree in History (focus Jewish studies) and Spanish, New Mexico State U. 1990