E Dating Center

Last Wednesday over 40 students went to hear Doron Kornbluth, author of Why Marry Jewish, give a slightly altered talk about the importance of dating Jewish or slightly anyone from your own faith. He started off his talk by saying that these were his ideas, and it was not a judgment on anyone and their background. He also clarified the fact that interrdating or intermarriage refers only to a relationship where one of the partners did not convert religions. His messages were all intertwined and quite simple. People should marry people of their same faith because it will be better for the marriage in terms of increased happiness and bonding and that it is better for the children. He said that people come up to me after each talk to tell me how hard it was to be raised "both." The main example he gave was from the previous night at CU-Boulder where a person had been raised in a home with a Protestant and a Catholic said, "it just didn't work." But the main focus of the talk was why dating your faith leads to marrying someone in your faith.

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