Churches and synagogues should not forbid intermarriages in cases where true love and affection are the guiding motives, declared Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy on Sunday in his sermon before the Centre of Jewish Science. However, to avoid possible disagreements in mixed marriages, Rabbi Levy said, there should be a pre-nuptial agreement that the children are to be brought up in one faith.
“This is a serious and a very practical problem”, declared Rabbi Levy. “Shall we bar the doors between the lovers or shall we perpetuate the farce of forced conversions? It is a problem which concerns not only the Jew, but all other earnest believers as well”.
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