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Mixed Marriage. ... "To start with I must admit that at first I harbored reservations
about a mixed marriage, prejudices you might even call them. ...
... received. Someone was obviously worried about their children as a result
of being part of a mixed marriage. “Otherwise” meaning ...
... rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and consolidated spiritual life by a public ceremony
of allegiance to the Torah and by stringent rules against mixed marriage. ...
... As far as the Reform movement is concerned The rise in mixed marriage and the embrace
of Jews of patrilineal descent (children of one Jewish parent who were ...
... marriages became legal in the United States. Now, we are faced with another
decision not unlike mixed marriages: homosexual marriage. ...
Submitted by evia on April 10, 2008
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Gail and I imagined a quiet wedding. During our two years together we had experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. But through it all we had honestly confronted the weaknesses and strengths of each other's characters.
Our racial and cultural differences enhanced our relationship and taught us a great deal about tolerance, compromise, and being open with each other. Gail sometimes wondered why I and other blacks were so involved with the racial issue, and I was surprised that she seemed to forget the subtler forms of racial hatred in American society.
Gail and I had no illusions about what the future held for us as a married, mixed couple in America. The continual source of our strength was our mutual trust and respect.
We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right. That point was emphasized by the fact that Gail's parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative effect on our budding relationship.
When Gail spread the news of our wedding plans to her family she met with some resistance. Her mother, Deborah, all along had been supportive of our relationship, and even joked about when we were going to get married so she could have grandchildren. Instead of congratulations upon hearing our news, Deborah counseled Gail to be really sure she was doing the right thing.
"So it was all right for me to date him, but it's wrong for me to marry him. Is his color the problem, Mom?" Gail subsequently told me she had asked her mother.
"To start with I must admit that...
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