Comments on: Interfaith Marriage and Community

By: keddaw

keddaw — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:59:03 +0000

Julie, that’s your own family. I can accept the occasional abuse and irritation from my own family, but if my family were to do that to someone I loved I would be giving them an ultimatum to stop or I would be restricting contact with them.

Healing wounds is the right thing to do, but when those wounds were imposed unilaterally for something that someone had no choice over then that goes beyond healing wounds to a whole realm of forgiveness.

Either way, I hope that Rebecca can work through her difficulties with the Jewish community and bring some understanding and tolerance to them so that the next outsider to enter into their community is welcomed rather than shunned.

By: Julie Clawson

Julie Clawson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:31:23 +0000

keddaw – some of us truly believe that even though our family may hurt us at times, we still love them and want to stay in relationship with them. It’s hard, it’s messy, and it would be a lot easier to run, but working to heal wounds is the only choice that we can authentically make.

By: keddaw

keddaw — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:08:53 +0000

I struggled so much with feelings of rejection from the Jewish community: a community that still speaks with a fairly unified voice that families like mine are not welcome.

What a horrible thing to have happen for falling in love.

If you had to get counselling due to feelings of rejection from that community should your husband not have abandoned such a small minded and bigoted community. I would not want to be associated with a community that treated someone that way, especially someone I loved.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:48:48 +0000

Thanks, Christi! Thanks to all the folks that have followed this link to our new community.

By: Christi

Christi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:50:23 +0000

“We want to be at the forefront of that change, contributing and creating the necessary dialogue to ensure that people have unfettered access to God in the language that their souls speak.”

That is beautiful Rebecca!