My cousin recently got married to a Jewish woman?

Question

Over the course of the past few weeks my cousin who is about 23-24 got married to a Jewish woman. I want to actually know MORE about her religion and her culture but I don't think my parents will. She is an Askenazi (sorry about spelling) Jew, I think but I'm not sure...

Anyway we are a Muslim family and I know it may sound strange to you Non-Muslims to have a Jewish person as a member of our family...

But since "all is forgiven" as my parents put it - we do talk to our cousin and his new wife. What did my parents mean?

Where can I find out more about their culture? I can't google it because it just comes up Jewish culture as a WHOLE.

And finally do you think it weird that I'm so interested in Judism - I mean I'm not Jewish but the stereotype suggests that I'm supposed to hate jews(!) but I don't - I'm actually interested in them.

I am a 15 year old boy.

I live in a remote part of Scotland.

I'm kinda scared to ask - i don't want to seem too forward -I havn't even met her yet but i've seen a photo of her...

Answer 1

You shouldn't hate anybody. Jews are just as much human as anyone else. Plus we Muslims are allowed to marry Jews and Christiaans. Your curiosity is probably grounded in the fact that Jews and Muslims are portrayed as born enemies, and it is a new culture for you. Plus your age is one of curiosity itself. Look it up in Wikipedia.org, they probably have a section there.

Answer 2

First of all, the fact you belong to a religious group that is traditionally not friendly towards another group doesn't mean you're supposed to hate them, don't let that mess you up. See, in history, there're examples of coexistance and not hate, for instace, in Spain, where I'm from, for centuries muslims, jews, and christians lived in the same cities and together and in peace in al-Andalus (a shame it got conquered by medieval catholic fanatics....)

Anyhow...

By Askenazy, I hope you mean polish-descendant jewish, for that's the only bell the word ring. In that case, you might wanna check the wikipedia article on polish jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Jews) which is kinda complete.

Answer 3

Jews are followers of the prophet Mosses,who got the book Thourath(old testement) Muslim men are allowed to marry girls of such traditional Jews and Christians who are the people of Devine Books (THOURATH and INJEEL).How ever muslim girls should not be married to any body other than a muslim
In the circumstance if the girl is a real traditional Jew your family do not worry. It is permitted.

Answer 4

I've not read the Koran, but I've read bit of it when I wanted to know exactly how food could be considered Halal. As part of this I found that Muslims can eat food prepared by Christians and Jews, as (I think) the three religions actually all worship the same god (God/Allah), but by different names and by different methods. So why 'should' you hate the Jewish?

Why don't you just ask your cousin-in-law about her faith and it's intricacies.

Answer 5

I'm not a Muslim but my Muslim friends always told me they were taught to be respectful of Christians and Jews because all three religions have much scripture and teachings in common.

Answer 6

Go to your local library and find a book on the Jewish religion.

Also: JewishEncyclopedia.com/askenaz where I found this:

ASHKENAZ (print this article)

By : Marcus Jastrow Max L. Margolis

(see image) The Ruins of Ashkelon.(After a photograph.)

(): A people traced back (Gen. x. 3; I Chron. i. 6) through Gomer to Noah's third son, Japheth. In Jer. li. 27, 28, it is mentioned in connection with the kingdoms of Ararat and Minni and with the Medes as being hostile to Babylon. The Targum to the passages in Gen. and Chron., the Talmud (Yer. Meg. i. 71b) and Midrash (Gen. R. xxxvii.) identify it with Asia; that is, the Roman province (Asia propria or proconsularis), consisting mainly of the districts of Lydia, Phrygia, and Caria. Targum Yer. has, instead of it, "Adiabene" (that is,the district of ancient Assyria), with which the Talmud and Midrash connect Riphath (apparently according to marginal reading Diphath in Chron. i. 6). While in the Targum, Talmud, and Midrash, Togarmah is identified with Germania (the identification, three instances in all, being clearly based on similarity of sound), the medieval Jews (as, for example, Yosippon) understood by Ashkenaz the Teutons. Eusebius had also made this identification, while, according to Saadia, the Slavs are meant. Josephus identifies Ashkenaz with the Rhegines, a people otherwise unknown. Modern scholars since Bochart have connected Ashkenaz with Ascanius, which occurs as the name of a Mysian and of a Phrygian prince, and in Homer as the name of a river also; there was likewise a district Ascania inhabited by Phrygians and Mysians; and an Ascanian lake was located in Phrygia and in Bithynia. Accordingly, Ashkenaz is said to be the old name of a people who spread through Mysia and Phrygia, and subsequently settled in western Armenia (Ashkhen is an Armenian proper name). Assyriologists identify Ashkenaz with a people named Ashguza whose aid was sought by the Mannai when they revolted from Esarhaddon; both were settled near Lake Urumiyeh. This view agrees better with the passage in Jeremiah.

Bibliography: Dillmann, Comm. on Gen., Engl. transl., p. 327;
C. I. O. T. ii. 293;
see also the commentaries of Gunkel, Strack, Franz Delitzsch, etc., on Gen. x.;
Neubauer, La Géographie du Talmud, p. 423;
Friedrich Delitzsch, Wo Lag das Paradies? p. 246;
Jastrow, Dict. P. 270.
(see image) Ashkelon Besieged by Rameses II. (See p. 190.)(After Lepsius, "Denkmaler.")

Answer 7

i think of which you're able to do what feels top to you no remember what. a pair of friends of mine have been given married a year in the past with thoroughly diverse religious backgrounds, one in each of them Jewish. They wound up incorporating the two cultures into the reception and it became into stunning! The households are style of squabbling over how the infants would be raised so they desperate that the youngsters could discover out approximately the two cultures so as that they'd come to a variety for themselves. It relies upon on how plenty distinction in faith concerns to YOU, to no longer your or her kinfolk. ought to you manage her praying in yet in any different case than you, believing in yet in any different case? ought to you supply her the liberty to have faith the way she needs and her you? those are the significant questions. once you get married she will become your loved ones so the two one in each of you will could talk the determination consisting of your households mutually.

Answer 8

jewish are a few in america.jews do good in school and study ahrd.jews are strict to religion.they memorize the holocaust.jews can be nice.jews are like any peopl.jews dont believe in jesus.jews believe in God.they still wait for the messiah

Answer 9

Maybe wait till you go to college; and once there, you can take appropriate academic level classes on this subject for credit. You can take classes about Islam too while there.

Answer 10

1)Jews believe that there is a single God who not only created the universe

2)one must be married in order to become a rabbi
( r ur bro is a rabbi now? or ur bhabi is muslim?)


well,it doesnt matter till ur bro & her wife is happy & also ur parents !!