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[quote=Anonymous]Many here don't understand what culturally Jewish is.  My husband didn't understand 25 years ago either, but now he does.

My only suggestion is to talk about it BEFORE you have kids, and figure out what it looks like.  Is it important for you that your children have a bar/bat Mitzvah?  Is it important to you to celebrate Jewish holidays as a family (Passover, High Holidays, etc.).

For us, raised Catholic spouse is now Unitarian Universalist, and that is easier than Atheist, but you also need to figure out death rituals (what each other wants once they pass away).  For us, it was important to me that the kids were raised Jewish, and it was important to him to have a Christmas Tree and Easter baskets (I would define that as  culturally Christian).  When the kids were little we would say, Santa or the Easter Bunny is bringing this for dad, and they're a nice guy and won't leave out the rest of the family members.

Our family joined a temple (important to husband that there not be too much Hebrew, so a reformed synagogue it was), he participated (sometimes drove kids to Hebrew and Sunday School, came with all of us during the High Holidays and other important services - when the third grade class - or whatever age our kids were - were involved, and was an active participant in their b'nai mitzvahs).

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