Local Jewish Mother Relieved Son Is Considering Intermarriage

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
“It’s not that I wouldn’t be welcoming if he married a Jewish girl, it’s just that the Catholic girl he’s seeing really gets him, you know? And that’s certainly more important to me than thousands of years of cultural continuity.”
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