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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mind your own marriage. Signed .... a non Jew married to a Jewish man for thirty five happy years. This despite in-laws such as yourself. Shane on you. [/quote]

PP with the non-Jew mom and Jewish dad here. Completely.

OP, people like yourself shunned my mom (although they are mostly non-practicing Jews who nonetheless hated my mom). It caused her pain that she's still working through, 41 years after marrying my dad. Don't be the cause of that sort of pain for your sister and her husband. [/quote]

As the non-Jewish half of an interfaith couple, I really fail to understand the shunning, especially of the mom.  Shunning sounds like a GREAT way to ensure that your grandchild will have absolutely no Jewish identity.  The high rates of Jewish intermarriage make pretty clear that shunning isn't working to deter intermarriage, so it seems much more coherent to embrace interfaith families so that the kids are raised Jewish at least culturally.  [/quote]

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