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THE IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE IN JUDAISM AND MARRYING A JEWISH PARTNER: Most Jews feel the need to marry a Jewish partner. This is important mainly for the sake of the children. Whether a child is Jewish or not is determined solely by its mother; if she is Jewish the child is Jewish, regardless of whether the father is. On the other hand, the child of a non-Jewish mother is not Jewish, even if the father is. Marriages between Jews and non-Jews often run into difficulties when conflicts arise over how the children should be brought up. Jews select their marriage partners in a number of different ways. In the more traditional Jewish communities people try to learn as much as they can about a proposed partner's character, background, interests and ambitions before meeting the other person. If the two people are obviously unsuited to one another, they do not meet. This way there...

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