If a convert to Judaism man marries a non-Jewish (Christian) woman, can the kids still be Jewish?

Question

If a convert to Judaism man marries a non-Jewish(Christian)woman , can the kids still be Jewish if the non-Jewish wife has no problem with them being raised as Jews?

Answer 1

Jewish heritage is passed down by the mother. The children of a Jewish man and non Jewish mother are not Jews. These children can choose Judaism for themselves and undergo the same conversion process as their father, however.
One movement within Judaism, the Reform movement, is seeking to change the way Judaism is inherited from parent to child. Reform Jews want to change inherheritance so that a child of a Jewish and non Jewish parent can be regarded as a Jew. There is a great amount of opposition to this idea and even if Reform Jews acknowledge the children of a Jewish father/non Jewish mother, Jews outside the Reform movement will almost certainly not recognize these children as Jews.
This practice seems exclusionary and outdated, especially with the paternaty testing we have today to verify fatherhood but this is a tradition thousands of years old and changing it, if change happens at all, will come very slowly.

Answer 2

Wouldn't work, ask any Jewish person the Jewish linage is passed down through the woman not the man. Since the woman is not Jewish, and the man is a convert I don't think any Jewish people would accept it until they grew up and personally converted individually.
The way a Jewish Rabbi explained it to me, was when a chld is born, you never really know for sure who the father is, and you always know for sure who the mother is. Since during persecution times in history rape of jewish women was so prevelant that the law was changed to the woman to save the extinction of the nation.

Answer 3

According to Jewish Law, children born of a non-Jewish woman are non-Jews. But if they convert to Judaism then they will be full-fledged Jews.

On the other hand, if the mother undergoes conversion before the children are born, then she and they will be Jewish.

Answer 4

Jewish tradition states only the children of a true Jewish mother are jewish..Do yu think they give this membership away easily??

Answer 5

traditionally Jewishness passes though the mother.

so if a Jewish man (convert or not) marries a non-Jewish woman then accoridng to Jewish law the kid is not Jewish.

Answer 6

I don't see why not. There is nothing specifically anti-Jewish about being Christian anyway. Does anybody else remember into what race and culture Jesus Christ was born and raised?

It is possible to be both Jewish and Christian at the same time.

Answer 7

Since in anthropological terms there is no such thing as a "Jewish Race," the kids can be whatever faith their parents want them to be.

Answer 8

Not ethnically. Religious wise they can be Jewish.

Answer 9

If the parents agree then it's no problem.