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Show OHI Sade Tannenbaum 7-4-82 sl:lS ST No, I never had that fear. Somehow or another- I tried to keep the home as Jewish as possible. We knew Friday night, we had the ritual. Today, you get away from everything. We had thelighting of the candles. The holidays were observed. And there was never that "you mustn't this or that." You know, the same thing, wheni was a youngster. My mother didn't say that I couldn't go with a shiksa. Or couldn't do that. I just took everything for granted n the home and this is the way it was. And , fortunately, thank goodness, my children all have married into their own, which helps today. It's a novelty that they marry into their own. JK Intermarriage. Especially here. I notice, a lot of people, young have . people 1ntermmar1ed here. ST I think it's everywhere. I don't think it's only here. We see alot of it here and this converting. Here is just-- it hurts. I'm still of the old school. I just can't undrstnd becuase there's so many of our own that don't want it known that they're Jewish. JK What about it hurts? In conversion? ST I don't believe in it. Because I think when a young couple, or whoever, go with anyone outside of their faith, they know, wht should they ask - one or the other ask, for them to become a Jew. I may be -wrong. I have a mother. We have an intermarriage in our family. When my brother called,I knew who was married to and I said, Good luck," and hung up. Andhe called back and said, "Did you understand that I married Jane?" A Catholic girl. "We were married by the justice of the peace." And I said, "Yes." And it just nearly killed me. Now, my father was strict In a way, he would eat trayf at that time which was a rarity, but he was away from home and had to. And he |
