can jewish people marry a non-jewish person?

Question

both men and women

Answer 1

In modern democratic countries, anyone can have a secular marriage, but from the religious point of view:
No.

This comes from two different sources.

In the Torah (the five books of Moses), it states "Do not marry your daughter to a non-jewish man for he will lead your child to worshipping idols. Do not marry your son to a non-Jewish girl for his name will lost to Israel."

There are extremely important lessons learnt here:
1) The child of a non-Jewish man and a Jewish woman is jewish (thus why it warns against him leading the children to idol worship, so Jews will be worshipping idols)
2) The child of a Jewish man with a non-Jewish woman is not Jewish. (The land in a family could only be inherited by a Jewish child as it was the prioperty of the tribe and the family, not the individual- thus by marrying a non-Jewish woman his children loose the ability to inherit that land and his name is lost form those that have a share in the land)
3) Jewish women cannot marry non-Jewish men (there children are considered kosher to marry other jews and are not mamzerim- see Talmud, Masechta Yevamos)
4) A Jewish man cannot marry a non-Jewish woman (Their children are considered non-Jewish and cannot marry Jews unless they convert)

Another place we learn this from is the fact that a Jew is bound by the 613 mitzvot of the Torah miSinai (the Torah given on Mt Sinai), a non-Jew by the 7 Noahide laws. Since the 613 mitzvot contain the laws about marriage and the 7 Noahide laws do not, the non-Jew cannot be bound to the Jew via Jewish law since it is not binding on them, thus there can be no marriage in the Jewish point of view between a jew and a non-Jew.

Answer 2

This is a questions with many layers. Depending on the Jewish person you ask you would get different answers. There are different types of Judaism similarly how there are different domination's of Christianity. So an Orthodox Jew, which is usually considered the denomination that abides by a strict interpretation of Jewish law would most likely not approve. In strict Jewish law the rule is that a Jewish child is only born a Jew if his/her mother is Jewish. It is important to remember that Jews like all people, can as you say, do whatever they want regardless of what their religion says.

Answer 3

Yes. But if the woman is jewish then technaically any children resulting from the union will also be jewish, because in Judaism religion follows the mother not the father

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Yes,but if the woman is Jewish and the man isn't the kids can't be Jewish.It may be the other way around but I think this is correct.

Answer 6

Sure my brother in law is Jewish and my sister and I are catholic. It all has to do with how religious they really are, his family had a few reservations about it in the beginning but they got over it.

Answer 7

People can marry whom ever they want. That's just my opinion anyways. But then again I'm not Jewish.

Answer 8

Yes religion should not stop two people who are in love from being together and loving each other. As long as they don't try and convert each other. If they can accept each other for who they are then that's all that matters.

Answer 9

In America, yes.

Answer 10

In the traditional rules they can't...Some people (Mostly American Jews the European and Asian Jews usually are faithful to their religion and marry jews) follow their hearts and not religion when it comes to love♥ and marry out of their religion.