Your Questions

Do you believe someone can be in a relationship with a person who has differing religious beliefs or even no beliefs at all?

My question is: my parents aren’t religious; we never kept kosher or any of the festivals. Why all of a sudden are they so Jewish when it comes to whom I marry?

Although my life appears to be headed in a great direction, I feel more and more like I am getting lost.

I have always felt an affinity to Queen Esther from the Purim story. Just like me, she married a non-Jew. And because of it she saved the Jewish people...

“I’m not Jewish,” Frank said to me. “Does that mean you wouldn’t marry me?”

It seems that the more determined I am to marry a Jew, the more fantastic non-Jewish girls walk into my life. Maybe G-d is trying to tell me something?

I just want to know what crime I have committed by being a non-Jew. All her friends and family are trying to convince her out of this relationship. I think I am a nice guy. What do they have against me?

My fiancé's parents told me that for a Jew to marry a non-Jew is worse than the Holocaust! I don't get it. Am I really that terrible?

I assume you are referring to the many obstacles facing Judaism in the 21st century: the high intermarriage rate . . . assimilation . . . the crisis in the Middle East . . .

If insisting that you will only date Jews makes you racist, does insisting that you will only date men make you sexist?

Esther did not want to be taken to the palace. Not only was she an upright Jewish girl who abhorred the notion of marriage to a gentile vile king, she was actually already married!

How did the prohibition of intermarriage with the seven nations become a prohibition of intermarriage with anyone not Jewish?