[SauronOfMordor]

To non-practicing Jews, their Jewishness is only an ethnicity. As such, marrying someone of a different ethnicity is like an Italian marrying a Swede -- no big deal

[twippo]

That's why the reform movement is currently in the minority in Britain. The secular Jews will marry out and only the religious generation will pass on Jewishness.

[muawiyah]

An Italian marrying a Swede is a much bigger deal than you can imagine. It is, after all, a big deal, particularly when the kids come along and some of them tan and some of them burn ~ can definitely put a kink in family wa.

Then there's the part where the Italian wants the fish cooked.