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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are completely missing the point. Catholics raising their kids catholic cannot really be compared to Judaism.
In [b] some sects of [/b]Judaism you cannot be jewish if you are not born jewish from a jewish mother. Gentile women marrying jews have a very hard time being accepted, some are not even accepted if they convert, and conversion to Judaism is not a simple matter.
For some strange reason jewish women marrying outside the religion is more accepted, most likely because the kids are still born jewish.
I would not get involved in organizing blind dates to anyone. A single jewish woman would most likely be interested in a single jewish man, but unless you know her well, I would keep out[/quote]
Fixed that for you. Not all sects of Judaism believe this. Reform Jews, for example, believe that if either of your parents is Jewish, you're Jewish. http://www.reformjudaism.org/practice/ask-rabbi/i-have-jewish-mother-and-christian-father-what-am-i[/quote]

Actually the original resolution passed by the Reform rabbis said that if one parent is Jewish AND the child is raised Jewish, which means being educated in the Jewish religion and NOT being raised in another religion then the child is Jewish (note, that means for some people with a Jewish mother and a gentile father, it is possible to be recognized as Jewish by Conservative and Orthodo but NOT by Reform)  though I think in practice those strictures are often not applied - not sure if Reform ever formally relaxed the requirements. [/quote]

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