[LWalk18]

Hell, many if not most Jews will not even marry a non-Jew without conversion (not that I blame them) and you wish to preach to me about identity egalitarianism...please.

50% of Jews in the U.S. marry non-Jews, I am not sure what the number is in Israel (of course it would be lower since it is a Jewish nation). Any prohibition of marrying gentiles has been largely ignored.

[wardaddy]

That may be but the majority of goys I've known who married jews converted usually at the insistence of the jew's parents.

I have a lot of experience in Israel (in fact I have an invitation to a wedding of two Israelis in NYC on my desk in front of me) and I've found the ones I know most often married other jews. I can only think of one jew out of the 50-100 I've known who married outside the faith to someone who did not convert and the one I do know was a young girl whose jewish parents abandoned her....yes, another rather unusual thing for a jewish family.

However, I'm 46....that is at least one generation away from marrying age generation and the younger jews likely are behaving as you say.

Btw...I always admired Jewish marital preservation....I think it's fine and is ok for anyone who feels that way.

Feeling otherwise is obviously okk too i suppose.

(that reminds me of the DNC commercial where the gay guy is complaining about "they want to tell me who I can marry" on MTV...lol)