I am curious_reader but can't log in. I guess if someone non-Jewish is somehow interested in respects your Jewish life style it can work. I just can't find anywhere anyone suitable. I am at an age where all men I would have been interested in are either married or are definitely in a commited relationship. I am also the most interesting person in the world. I would however not be happy and able to have a relationship over a far distance. That is not very satifying. I am not even very good in keeping in email contact with people I met and would have liked to be friends with. You don't sound like being happy about the distance either including the distance from your friends, too. I don't think anyone has to produce babies. There are enough people also Jews who decided not have children and are happy without them. Children means lots of commitments and you are limited what you can do with your own time. Apart from that if someone has not much money (in London you have to be a millionar indeed) you can't afford children on top of a decent accomodation and other living costs. Some people have to struggle with their own health problems and would be unable to cope with children at home. They may get help but it won't be satifactory for the parents nor the children. Coming back to Jewish couples. There are more secular Jews out there than religous ones. They may not teach their children about Judaism. What the use of producing more Jews then? I don't think that was the idea of the Rabbis and scholars.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2009-06-02 12:13 pm (UTC)I guess if someone non-Jewish is somehow interested in respects your Jewish life style it can work. I just can't find anywhere anyone suitable. I am at an age where all men I would have been interested in are either married or are definitely in a commited relationship. I am also the most interesting person in the world. I would however not be happy and able to have a relationship over a far distance. That is not very satifying. I am not even very good in keeping in email contact with people I met and would have liked to be friends with. You don't sound like being happy about the distance either including the distance from your friends, too.
I don't think anyone has to produce babies. There are enough people also Jews who decided not have children and are happy without them. Children means lots of commitments and you are limited what you can do with your own time. Apart from that if someone has not much money (in London you have to be a millionar indeed) you can't afford children on top of a decent accomodation and other living costs. Some people have to struggle with their own health problems and would be unable to cope with children at home. They may get help but it won't be satifactory for the parents nor the children.
Coming back to Jewish couples. There are more secular Jews out there than religous ones. They may not teach their children about Judaism. What the use of producing more Jews then? I don't think that was the idea of the Rabbis and scholars.