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Can you make sure your kids marry 'in'?

How do parents — those who worry about the prospect of their children marrying out — prevent such a match coming to pass?

April 12, 2017 14:25
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Recently, I bumped into an old school friend and — both being Jewish mothers — the catch up conversation inevitably involved an audit of our growing families.

Fortunately, I vaguely remembered that this woman’s son was a rising star in corporate finance and so provided the cue for her to glow about his stellar career. (I got at least ten bars of If you could see him now.)

However, when I shmoozed that this boy was quite the catch, his mother told me that her son had already been caught — by a gorgeous young teacher, no less, who was utterly devoted to him and who was adored by all the family, including my friend — a significant coup considering the territorial reflex of the Jewish matriarch.

Yet, something in her pleated brow telegraphed a big, fat “but”. Which she duly expressed. In three big, fat words: “She’s not Jewish.”