WASHINGTON POST
by Lauren Markoe
January 8, 2015

Whether Jews should only date and marry other Jews is not a new question, but it’s one that has come into stark relief in recent weeks. In two separate instances in December, groups within Conservative Judaism — the second-largest movement of American Jews — appeared to challenge some of their own rules that discourage interfaith dating and matrimony…..Unlike rabbis in Reform Judaism, the largest American stream of Judaism, Conservative rabbis may not preside at interfaith marriages. Conservative Judaism has stood fast on this, even as it has embraced female rabbis and same-sex weddings and welcomed the non-Jewish spouses of congregants into its synagogues. READ MORE