Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.