Monday, March 28, 2016

Easter vs. Passover: In Interfaith Marriages, Mom’s Faith Wins Out

By Naomi Schaefer Riley for The New York Times

I never thought of myself as part of an interfaith marriage — more of a faith/no-faith marriage. I am a Conservative Jew and my husband is a former Jehovah’s Witness, now an “aspiring atheist.” I told him on our first date that our children would be raised Jewish — indeed that they would go to Jewish day school. A little forward, perhaps, but I had friends who spent years arguing over faith until they finally decided their relationship just wasn’t going anywhere. And I had friends who wanted to expose kids to “a little bit of both” and then let them decide. Bringing up children as Unitarians or Jews for Jesus wasn’t in the cards for me.

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