Table of Contents

Rabbi Kalman Packouz

How to Prevent an Intermarriage

 

Contents

1 Maybe I Have No Right to Interfere?
2 Maybe It's Best to Do Nothing?
3 How Do I Formulate a Plan?
4 What Works Best?
5 How Should I Interact?
6 How Do I Begin To Communicate?
7 What Should I Say?
8 What Should I Say To a Non-Jew Who Wants To Marry My Child?
9 What Should I Say If He Calls Me a Racist?
10 What Can My Child Say to Break Off the Engagement?
11 Case Histories - Latent Anti-Semitism
12 Case Histories - Underlying Differences
13 Case Histories - The Children
14 Case Histories - Parental Opposition
15 Case Histories - Methods for the Rabbi
16 To Convert or Not to Convert?
17 What Makes a Universally Accepted Conversion?
18 Jewish Ceremonies for Mixed Marriages?
19 Stemming Intermarriage - Why and How?
20 What Can the Family Do?
21 What Can the Community Do?
22 Questionnaires

APPENDIX A

1 The Jewish View of Marriage
2 “What are the Reasons Not to Intermarry” -- Rabbi Nachum Braverman
3 On the Jews John Adams, Second President of the United States
4 What is a Jew? Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoy
5 Concerning the Jews Mark Twain
6 “Israel” Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

APPENDIX B

1 Sample Letters to Someone Considering Intermarriage
2 Schools
3 Conversion Boards
4 Recommended Reading
5 Rabbis
6 The One Book to Give Your Child
7 About the Author
8 If You Have Used This Book With Success

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