I am very proud to be Jewish and love our culture. It is rich with community & personal values, spiritual thought, music, the little home we call the Land of Israel, and more. I am not looking to sever ties to all that by meeting someone outside of the faith. Who else will take responsibility for keeping Judaism alive in the future, if not our kids, and if we do not continue to build Jewish community as adults?

I don't know...I think that intermarriage is a good attempt at self-survival. If everyone has Jewish ancestry, then there will be fewer people "in country" who want to kill Jews. The more intermarriage, the less possibliity of isolation and destruction as an ethnic group. Now, if you're talking about people who talk about Judism as a religion being lessened, I fear that most of their talk is anti-women--usually directed at women and the need to marry Jewish men. Their speak usually isn't directed toward Jewish men. The same thing happens in the African-American community, where you have black men marrying caucasian women but a lot of pressure on black women to marry only "in community." If you marry, it is your responsibility to pass down your traditions, regardless of who you marry. Hum....could the real problem be Jewish men marrying only blonds and anglos (parting swipe)? Hahahaha...