How do you tell your family you’re dating a non-Jewish partner? Family’s not religious, don’t know why it’s an issue for them for past 3 years. I don’t expect my partner to convert. Don’t really care what religion my kids are. We didn’t go to synagogue growing up. Many mixed marriages in the family. Neither Christian nor Jewish partners religious. Their kids not religious. Feels like a double standard. Why is the pressure on me to date Jewish all of a sudden?

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Wait, have you been dating for 3 years, they're not happy about it, but now you're going to tell them? I'm so confused

I’ve been dating. But the pressure to find a Jewish partner has become so prevalent into the past 3 years. It wasn’t an issue before

Hard to say without more context on your family, particularly the suddenness you mentioned.

They might not have thought it was serious before and now it's getting real

Ultimately, it's your journey to discover what it means to be Jewish and how it applies to your life.

The events of October 7th and the ensuing conversations have awakened a renewed sense of pride in many Jewish people. Our community is inherently kind and peaceful, tasked with being a light to others. While we’re not all perfect, the core principles of our religion, our relationship with God - father and creator of this world, our soul (neshama), and millennia of community are being recognized as essential values. Many are realizing the importance of these elements for themselves and their children.

It's amazing to be Jewish. I am religious today but only because I had a strange journey getting here. So I mean it when I say, Im very grateful and proud to be a Jew.

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