>Tamar may disagree with me, but I think, speaking only from my own small circle of such acquaintances, that mixed marriages that deal with colour have liberated far more than those that deal with religion.

The community I live has pretty much every kind of mixed marriage you can imagine. I know Cohens who aren't Jewish and O'Briens and DiLorenzos who are. I know families where one parent has converted to Judaism, families raising kids as Jewish with one Jewish parent, and families raising kids as Christian with one Jewish parent. (I'm not sure I know any where a Jew has formally converted to another religion.)

I think pretty much every non-Orthodox Jewish family today has at least one member in a mixed marriage. (Marshal and I each have a brother married to a non-Jew.) Nonetheless, I think it's also true that most Jewish parents would prefer that our children married Jews. It's true for me for a number of reasons, including my sense that combining two sets of family customs to build a family is hard enough and a religious difference makes it even harder.

Tamar