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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something's gotta give.

I'm catholic and DH is Jewish. I went to catholic school, and it was important to me to have our kids officially raised catholic. DH is more culturally Jewish and hasn't gone to temple regularly since shortly after his bar mitzvah.

Our kids go to ccd. We have an interfaith home in terms of exposure to both faiths and culture. We observe both Christian and Jewish holidays. Christmas tree and menorah.

We've been together for 20 years, and it works for us. [/quote]

bc your husband isn't a religious Jew and he's letting you rule in that arena

That's why it works.

not a difficult situation to comprehend . . .

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...correct...and that's why I said something's gotta give. It wasn't easy at first, because even nonreligious people get turfy when it comes to picking Christmas over Hanukkah.

I just don't see how two people who are supposedly religious can attend two different services every week and not want their kids to officially be something. That's why I think this is a turf thing. And I suspect one if not both are more culturally religious than practicing (do you attend a service every week?). [/quote]

I have to agree with this poster. As she noted, if both people are truly religious and/or believe it's important to raise their kids in their religion, it's really hard. It works much better if one is more wishy-washy. I am Jewish and felt strongly that I wanted to raise my kids Jewish. To me that meant marrying either a Jewish man or a non-Jewish man who would agree to raise his children as Jews. While I'm sure there must be successful families out there where the parents are strongly of different faiths, I don't know any. All my inter-faith couple friends consist either of one religious partner and one partner who is religious in name only, or one religious partner and one partner who actually converted to the partner's religion. There must be a way to do what OP wants to do, but it won't be easy.[/quote]

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